British Museum

American  

noun

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

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British Museum British  

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

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British Museum

In keeping with the mid-19th century vogue for collecting and labeling specimens, a shipment of Ceylon oyster shells traveled to the British Museum in 1868.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The British Museum is preparing to put the Bayeux Tapestry on display, after the 70m-long 11th Century embroidery was brought to London from northern France last week.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

It will be displayed at the British Museum from September 10 to July 11, 2027, with 100,000 tickets already sold to the public for the first four months of the exhibition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron had earlier posted a photograph of an image of the Bayeux Tapestry which the British Museum had projected on to the white cliffs of Dover.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

In the early nineteenth century Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, while supervising the British occupation of Java sent two gamelan sets back to Britain, housed today in the British Museum.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall