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The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and calls for restitution to their countries of origin.

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Scarabeu gigantic din granit

Barca de granit a reginei Mutamuia

Capul faraonului Amenhotep III, cuarţit

Theba, cca 1400 î.C

Amenophis IIIFragment dintr-o uriaşă statuie din granit a lui Ramses II

Cap din granit roşu, posibil Ramses II cca 1250 î.C

Animale mumificate

Great Court, acoperiş din sticlă şi oţel

Lira unei regine sumeriene

Fotografii:

Daniela Iacob

Prezentare:

Sanda Foişoreanuwww.slideshare.net/michaelasanda

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