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The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

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The museum is keen to work collaboratively with partners and communities across the globe and welcomes these proposed discussions around future joint projects with Rapa Nui.

– British Museum

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

The Trustees have always believed that such loans must continue between museums in spite of political disagreements between governments, it is a position energetically shared by our counterparts in Russia.

– British Museum

Found on CNN 10 years ago

The British Museum is a museum of the world, for the world and nothing demonstrates this more than the loan of a Parthenon sculpture to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to celebrate its 250th anniversary.

– British Museum

Found on CNN 10 years ago

It was in the 19th century that Lord Elgin removed intact architectural sculptures from the frieze, the metopes and the pediments of the building.

– British Museum

Found on CNN 10 years ago

From the entire frieze that survives today, 50 meters are in the Acropolis Museum, 80 meters in the British Museum, one block in the Louvre.

– British Museum

Found on CNN 10 years ago

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