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The British Museum is a non-departmental public body (NDPB), operating at arm's length from government, but accountable to parliament. It's sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport with whom it has a Management agreement. Board of Trustees.

Current Trustees. The Hon Nigel Boardman. C heryl Carolus. Dame Elizabeth Corley, DBE. The British Museum has about eight million objects in its collection, half of these you can see on the British Museum collection database.

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Report of the Trustees. British Museum. From inside the book. What people are saying - Write a review. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Contents. Introduction page. 9: Report of the Trustees: Author: British Museum: Publisher: Trustees of the British Museum., Original from.

The British Museum Report of the Trustees [Trustees of the British Museum] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Geoffrey Robertson QC said: “The trustees of the British Museum have become the world’s largest receivers of stolen property, and the great Author: Dalya Alberge.

John Taylor is the curator of the ' Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead ' exhibition, a hugely popular programme that opened at the British Museum in November, In this article he expands on one of the most popular and fascinating objects to have appeared: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

British Museum: A book of drawings formerly ascribed to Mantegna, ([London] Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum, ), also by Campbell Dodgson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) British Museum: The British Museum. Elgin and Phigaleian marbles. Arts of the book.

Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh recreates a Persian miniature painting using the traditional tools and techniques of a 17th century book artist.

Reza Shah-Kazemi is founding editor of the Islamic World Report, formerly a Consultant to the Institute for Policy Research in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and currently Senior Research.

Summative report (pdf) More information about this exhibition. South Africa Landscape: Kew at the British Museum (21 April – 16 October ) Summative report (pdf) Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (Reading Room, 4 November – 6 March ) Formative report (pdf) Summative report (pdf).

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On display: G59/dc1. Exhibition history. Exhibited: Dec-Feb, British Museum, Room 3Dec. Who were Achilles’ parents. Achilles was the son of Peleus, a Greek king, and Thetis, a sea nymph or goddess. Zeus, the king of the gods and Poseidon, god of the sea, had both fallen in love with Thetis and were rivals for her hand in marriage.

British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts: British Museum Shakespeare exhibition, Guide to the mss. & printed books exhibited in celebration of the tercentenary of the first folio Shakespeare. With eight plates. ([London] Printed by order of the trustees, ), also by British Museum, Alfred W.

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for the Trustees of the British Museum; List of the natural history publications of. The book charts the impact that the growth of the Museum and its collection has had on the surrounding area of Bloomsbury, as well as focusing on two of the key finds of the excavation: the discovery of the hitherto elusive Civil War defences of London, and the intriguing assemblage of dead cows recovered from an early 18th-century collection.

First reported by the Guardian, Robertson also writes that “the trustees of the British Museum have become the world’s largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their Author: Claire Selvin. Newly appointed British Museum trustee Mary Beard Photo: Lion TV and Brave New Media.

Scholar Mary Beard says she is looking forward to tackling the thorny issue of restitution in a new blog post due to be published later today on the British Museum article marks the start of the celebrated classicist's four-year term as a trustee of the British Museum.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: In the Years Volume 2 of Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: In the Years, British Library (London) Author: British Museum (London) Contributor: British Library (London) Publisher: Trustees of the British Museum, Original from: the Bavarian State Library: Digitized: The idea of establishing a laboratory at the British Museum dates back towhen the Trustees sent a request to the government Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) for assistance in preserving objects in the collection.

The catalyst was damage caused by. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), v.: ill. ; 25 cm. ISSN: Series: Publication (British Museum (Natural History) Cited In: GeoRef.

Life Dates: / Sub-series of: Publication (British Museum (Natural History)) Later Title: British Museum (Natural History). Triennial report. Former Title. Find nearly any book by. British Museum. Get the best deal by comparing prices from overbooksellers.

Search British Museum.) used books, rare books and new books And For The Better Security, And Preservation Of The Same: By Order Of The Trustees. ISBN () Softcover, Nabu Press,   - The British Museum has been accused of exhibiting “pilfered cultural property”, by a leading human rights lawyer who is calling for European and US institutions to return treasures taken from “subjugated peoples” by “conquerors or colonial masters”.

Geoffrey Robertson QC said: “The trustees of the British Museum have become the world’s largest receivers of.ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Sheet 2: The day of burial The funeral was when the dead person moved from the world of the living to the world of the dead.

This was the day that their mummy was put in the tomb.