British Museum

noun

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

British Museum

noun

1. 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

As Neil MacGregor, director of The British Museum, says, “The Japanese paint the pleasures of sex like nobody else.”

From The Daily Beast

Temperley unveiled a glittering collection at the British Museum of Champagne dresses with flourishes of crystals.

From The Daily Beast

Never had the Bloomsbury streets seemed so short, never the east side of the British Museum so few paces in length.

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He was reputed to have the largest library in England outside the British Museum and also to own seven dachshunds.

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Let us turn into the British Museum and see sensible, decorous Boxing-day there.

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There is in the British Museum a monument which was discovered at Xanthos in 1838.

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Great complaints are made of injury done to books, and other valuable works, in the British Museum.

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