British Museum

American

noun

a national depository and museum in London, England, housing important collections in archaeology, art, and natural history.

British Museum British

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

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In 1868 the Royal Navy carried off two statues, now in the British Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1913, on the advice of a British Museum curator, Routledge sailed to Easter Island, where she would carry out the first scholarly study of the island’s monuments and traditions.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There used to be a very old journal kept in the British Museum written by Lewis Carroll. He wrote that soldiers from the Red Queen’s army came looking for him after he published Alice in Wonderland. There is also a record that some of the mermaids from the Neverland lagoon came searching for J. M. Barrie, but the Thames was so polluted, they returned on their own!”

From Literature

His mother had gone to the British Museum, where she saw the Nereid Monument - an ancient tomb that had been dismantled and moved between 1842 and 1844 to the museum, brick by brick, from the south of Turkey.

From BBC

Research led by the British Museum has revealed that the Tudor Heart pendant may have been made to celebrate the betrothal of their two-year-old daughter Princess Mary to the eight-month-old French heir-apparent in 1518.

From BBC

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