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The British Museum collection totals at least 8 million objects. Roughly 80,000 objects are on public display at the British Museum in Bloomsbury at any one time. This is 1% of the collection, however, the displays include many of the most important items.
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Get closer to the British Museum collection and immerse yourself in two million years of history, across six continents. Collection online allows access to almost four and a half million objects in more than two million records.
The British Museum's collection has grown since 1753 and the acquisition of the founding collection of Sir Hans Sloane. Objects have been acquired in a variety of ways. Some objects are subject to questions about, or requests for, return to other countries.
As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with nearly 4,500,000 individual object entries in 2,000,000 records, many of them illustrated, online at the start of 2023.
Aug 24, 2020 · As part of the new Museum experience, we have created a one-way route around the Ground floor galleries that lets you safely enjoy incredible objects from cultures around the world. As well as more than 9,000 objects from the collection on display, you can also see two contemporary art installations along the route – Grayson Perry's The Tomb ...
Over 18,000 objects were discovered and shared between the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and 70 other countries, including nearly 8,000 that came to the British Museum. An ongoing major research project combines a re-assessment of these objects and new fieldwork.
Aug 26, 2023 · Founded in 1753, the British Museum has amassed a collection of around eight million items, but as of 2019 only around 80,000 were on public display, with the rest held in storage.
