British Museum

British Museum nyɛla sokam zaa taarihi duu din jɛndi ninsalinima taarihi, nucheeni baŋsim n-ti pahi kaya ni taada ka nyɛ din be Bloomsbury yaɣili zaŋ n-ti London. Di nyɛla di ni tooi deegi tumanima kamani miliyɔŋ dibaa anii, di ni nyɛ bari dunia zaa. Di nyɛla din mali taarihi zaŋ jɛndi ninsalinima kaya ni taada tum biɛhigu piligu zaŋ hali na ni zuŋɔ.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. Bɛ daa miɛ li la yuuni 1753, the British Museum ŋɔ n daa nyɛ tuuli sokam dunia zaa national museum. Yuuni 2023, salo ban kalinli yiɣisi  5,820,860 nyɛla ban daa chaŋ museum ŋɔ ni, ka di kalinli ŋɔ nyɛla din gari yuun shɛŋa din gari maa kalinli kamani kɔbigi puuni vaabu 42%. Laɣingu shɛli nyɛla ban yɛlli ni di ni gaŋdu United Kingdom.

Di piligu, museum ŋɔ nyɛla din daa na mali Anglo-Irish physician mini tabibi baŋda Sir Hans Sloanelahabaya.  Di nyɛla bɛ ni daa yoogi shɛli n-ti lahabali kam deebu yuuni 1759,  Montagu House. Museum ŋɔ nyɛla din daa yɛligi pam yuun kɔbishii ni pihinu din daa doli na maa.

Yuuni 1973,  British Library Act 1972 nyɛla bɛ ni daa waligi shɛli ka che British Museum amaa ka leei na kuli mali British Library din be lala karimbu shee ŋɔ hali ni yuuni 1997. Kamani UK national museums zaa, di ni bi deeri kpɛbu na liɣiri zaŋ n-ti "loan exhibitions".

Taarihi

 Sir Hans Sloane 
Di mini di malila kaya ni taɣada maa zaa yoli, British Museum daa nyɛla di kpa ka di nyɛla binshɛɣu kam ni tooi be din ni "universal museum". Di kpami doli Anglo-Irish physician mini naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) suhuyurilim, London dɔɣitɛ mini tabiibi-baŋda ŋun yina Ulster. O ni daa be o nyɛvuli ni, ni o ni daa bo Jamaica pakoli naai, Sloane daa laɣim "collection of curiosities" pam, ka daa bi yu ni o zali shɛli maa ti lahi kani o kalinsi nyaaŋa.de Beer, Gavin R. (1953). Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum. London.

Roman saha (30 BC – 641 AD)

"Schist" zuɣu din nyɛ bi'polli dini, Alexandria ( 30 BC nyaaŋa)

 "Meriotic Hamadab Stela" din yina Kingdom of Kush din kpa m-miri Meroë din be Sudan, 24 BC
 Soter mini Cleopatra kum adaka yɔrigu din yina Qurna, Thebes ( 2nd century AD piligu)
 Hawara ma anfooni(100–200 AD)
 Fayum mummy portraits din gari kalinli pihita ka yina Hawara ni Fayum yaɣ'shɛŋa (40–250 AD)
 Bronzefurila mini patera din yina X-group gbala ni, Qasr Ibrim (1st–6th centuries AD)
 "Coptic wall" peentibu zaŋti martyrdom din nyɛ saints, Wadi Sarga dini (6th century AD)

Departments
Department of Egypt and Sudan
British Museum nyɛ din mali taarihi binyɛra pam dunia zaaThe Cairo Museum has 200,000 artefacts, with leading collections reposited at the Egyptian Museum of Berlin (100,000), Musée du Louvre (60,000), Petrie Museum (80,000), The Metropolitan Museum of art (26,000), University of Pennsylvania (42,000), Ashmolean Museum (40,000), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (40,000), Museo Egizio, Turin (32,500 objects). ka lahi mali Egyptian antiquities pam (kamani kalinli din gari 100,000 ) Egyptian Museum din be Cairo. Di nyɛla din lahi mali kaya ni taada binyɛra zaŋ n-ti Nile Valley ( Nubia), bin din gbaai  Predynastic Neolithic saha (), Coptic (Christian) saha (12th century AD) zaŋ hali na ni zuŋɔ, di yuma nyɛla din gari 11,000.

Department of Prints and Drawings

Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory

Department of Asia

 Copyright settlement 
Silimiin goli August yuuni 2023, British Museum nyɛla ban daa di alizama ni lahabali lɛbigira Yilin Wang din daa niŋ ka bɛ zaŋ lahabali shɛli o ni daa lɛbigi ka di nyɛ yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi tum tuma ka di pa o yidani la Qiu Jin.

 Tibet naming conventions 
Silimiin goli January yuuni 2025, British Museum nyɛla Tibetan ni daa galim shɛba ka fii pirinla bɛ daa zami ni Tibet nyɛla  "Xizang," saha ŋɔ di nyɛla government of the People's Republic of China.

Galleries
Building

Museum galleries
Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

Department of the Middle East

Department of Greece and Rome

Digital and online
Museum ŋɔ nyɛla din mali saawara ni Google Cultural Institute din yɛn che ka bɛ lahabaya ŋɔ tooi be pohim zuɣu.

Exhibitions
 Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum, by Joanna Bowring (British Museum Research Paper 189, 2012) lists all temporary exhibitions from 1838 to 2012.
 Helen Wang, 2022. ‘Displays of money and medals at the British Museum, 1759 to 2022’, Numismatic Chronicle 182, pp. 313–338.

Forgotten Empire Exhibition (October 2005 – January 2006)

Bin din gbaai Silimiin goli January zaŋ hali ni Silimiin goli April yuuni 2012, museum ŋɔ nyɛla ban daa ti Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, tuuli din daa galisi zaŋ n-ti  Hajj, di nyɛla musuliminima daantali dibaa anu la zaɣ'yini.

Lihimi m-pahi
2016–17 all-female UK terror plot 

Notes

Kundivihira

Further reading

 Anderson, Robert (2005). The Great Court and the British Museum. London: The British Museum Press
 Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African and Pacific Art and the London Avant Garde. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 103–164. .
 Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard. "The Transcultural Roots of Modernism: Imagist Poetry, Japanese Visual Culture, and the Western Museum System" , Modernism/modernity Volume 18, Number 1, January 2011, pp. 27–42. .
 Bowring, Joanna (2012). Chronology of Temporary Exhibitions at the British Museum  London: British Museum Research Paper 189.
 Caygill, Marjorie (2006). The British Museum: 250 Years. London: The British Museum Press
 Caygill, Marjorie (2002). The Story of the British Museum. London: The British Museum Press
 --do.-- (2009) Treasures of the British Museum London: The British Museum Press  (1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1992)
 Cook, B. F. (2005). The Elgin Marbles. London: The British Museum Press
 Esdaile, Arundell (1946) The British Museum Library: a Short History and Survey. London: Allen & Unwin
 Jacobs, Norman (2010) Behind the Colonnade. Stroud: The History Press
 Jenkins, Ian (2006). Greek Architecture and its Sculpture in The British Museum. London: The British Museum Press
 Francis, Frank, ed. (1971) Treasures of the British Museum. London: Thames & Hudson (rev. ed., 1975)
 Moser, Stephanie (2006). Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at The British Museum. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
 Reade, Julian (2004). Assyrian Sculpture. London: The British Museum Press
 Reeve, John (2003). The British Museum: Visitor's Guide. London: The British Museum Press
 Wilson, David M. (2002). The British Museum: a history. London: The British Museum Press

 External links 


 The British Museum from The Survey of London
 British Museum elevation



Virtual tour of the British Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture



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