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 expecting one million people to come to the exhibition, believing it will rival the famous 1972 exhibition of Tutankhamun that saw record numbers.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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

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

Their walk would conclude at the brand-new British Museum, where they would spend the remainder of the afternoon touring the galleries and perhaps pop in on a lecture or two.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood