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British Museum
noun
a national depository and museum in London, England, housing important collections in archaeology, art, and natural history.
British Museum
noun
a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
Example Sentences
A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India's spiritual art.
The exhibition draws from the British Museum's South Asian collection with 37 loans from private lenders and national and international museums and libraries in the UK, Europe and India.
The ring has been declared treasure at Norfolk Coroner's Court and will now be taken to the British Museum for valuation, to see how much money the finder and landowner will get.
Jonny Helm, a marketing manager at the art restoration service Plowden & Smith, said the incident had implications for UK institutions such as V&A East and the British Museum, which are considering "opening up the display of things that would otherwise be obscured in archives."
In that burn layer at Tel Halif, we found Assyrian arrowheads and ballista stones: evidence of the assault that destroyed the village in 701 BCE, part of the military campaign that the emperor Sennacherib immortalized in stone relief wall panels now displayed in the British Museum.
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