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

Yesterday, over 18 painstaking hours, teams of French and British conservators and British Museum staff unfurled the 70-metre long artwork from the folding stand where it had been concertinaed, surrounded by protective mattress-type padding.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The heavy-looking crate, encased in an aluminium frame, was lowered out of the lorry, in front of a select crowd including the French ambassador to the UK and the director of the British Museum.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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

AFP journalists at the British Museum saw a metal case holding the 11th-century work being unloaded from a truck which carried it across the Channel in a hushed-up, high-security operation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

What I learned from my year at the British Museum and from my summer at home, other academics have learned; others have known the impossibility of going home, going back.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez