British Museum

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The British Museum is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive museums, renowned for its vast collection of art and antiquities spanning human history and cultures.

Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
British Museum (portions of the building)	1
British Museum Great Court, London	1
British Museum Library	1
British Museum Middle East Department	1
British Museum collection	1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum ⓘ history museum ⓘ museum ⓘ public museum ⓘ
admissionPolicy	free general admission ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Neoclassical architecture ⓘ
collectionPeriod	from prehistory to the present ⓘ
collectionSize	around 8 million objects ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
formerDirector	Hartwig Fischer ⓘ Neil MacGregor ⓘ
foundedBy	Act of Parliament ⓘ
founder	Sir Hans Sloane ⓘ
governingBody	Board of Trustees of the British Museum ⓘ
hasChiefExecutive	Director of the British Museum ⓘ
hasCollection	antiquities ⓘ archaeological objects ⓘ art ⓘ books ⓘ coins and medals ⓘ ethnographic objects ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ prints and drawings ⓘ
hasPart	Assyrian Galleries ⓘ Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas ⓘ Department of Asia ⓘ Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory ⓘ Department of Coins and Medals ⓘ Department of Collection Care ⓘ Department of Egypt and Sudan ⓘ Department of Greece and Rome ⓘ Department of Learning and National Partnerships ⓘ Department of Prints and Drawings ⓘ Department of the Middle East ⓘ Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ⓘ Great Court ⓘ Parthenon Galleries ⓘ Reading Room ⓘ Rosetta Stone ⓘ surface form: Rosetta Stone display
heritageDesignation	Grade I listed building ⓘ
inception	1753 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Bloomsbury ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
locatedInTimeZone	Europe/London ⓘ
mission	to document and illustrate the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present ⓘ
notableWork	Assyrian lion hunt reliefs ⓘ Benin Bronzes ⓘ Parthenon sculptures ⓘ surface form: Elgin Marbles Hoa Hakananaiʻa statue ⓘ Lewis Chessmen ⓘ Oxus Treasure ⓘ Parthenon sculptures ⓘ surface form: Parthenon Marbles Rosetta Stone ⓘ Standard of Ur ⓘ Sutton Hoo treasure ⓘ
opened	1759 ⓘ
ownedBy	UK government ⓘ
publicTransitAccess	Holborn station ⓘ Russell Square station ⓘ Tottenham Court Road station ⓘ
significantEvent	opening of the Great Court in 2000 ⓘ
streetAddress	Great Russell Street ⓘ
visitorStatistics	millions of visitors per year ⓘ
website	https://www.britishmuseum.org ⓘ

Referenced by (45)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nineveh → artifactsHeldAt → British Museum ⓘ

Vulci → artifactsInMuseum → British Museum ⓘ

Sainsbury family → associatedWith → British Museum ⓘ

shipwreck of the Beatrice → carriedTo → British Museum ⓘ

Cyrus Cylinder → collection → British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Middle East Department

Shabaka Stone → collection → British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum collection

Los Caprichos → collectionHeldAt → British Museum ⓘ

Central London → contains → British Museum ⓘ

London Borough of Camden → contains → British Museum ⓘ

Holborn and St Pancras → containsInstitution → British Museum ⓘ

Amarna letters → currentLocation → British Museum ⓘ

Cyrus Cylinder → currentLocation → British Museum ⓘ

Rosetta Stone → currentLocation → British Museum ⓘ

Shabaka Stone → currentLocation → British Museum ⓘ

Epic of Gilgamesh → currentLocationOfMajorTablets → British Museum ⓘ

Babylonian chronicles → describedBySource → British Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Babylonian Chronicles

Hormuzd Rassam → employer → British Museum ⓘ

John Edward Gray → employer → British Museum ⓘ

Robert Brown → employer → British Museum ⓘ

Roger Fenton → employer → British Museum ⓘ

Cyrus Cylinder → excavationSponsor → British Museum ⓘ

Ur → excavationSponsoredBy → British Museum ⓘ

Ballana → findsDistributedTo → British Museum ⓘ

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae → friezeCurrentLocation → British Museum ⓘ

Oceanic art → hasCollectionIn → British Museum ⓘ

Camden → hasCulturalInstitution → British Museum ⓘ

Camden → hasLandmark → British Museum ⓘ

Inner London → hasLandmark → British Museum ⓘ

Neoclassical architecture → hasNotableExample → British Museum ⓘ

Bloomsbury → hasPart → British Museum ⓘ

Grayson Perry → hasWorkInCollection → British Museum ⓘ

Herman Saftleven → hasWorkInCollection → British Museum ⓘ

rongorongo → heldIn → British Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Rongorongo

London, England → hosts → British Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: London

Ife bronze and terracotta sculpture → inCollectionOf → British Museum ⓘ

The Disasters of War → locationOfImpression → British Museum ⓘ

Buro Happold → notableProject → British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Great Court, London

Portland stone → notableUse → British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum (portions of the building)

Parthenon sculptures → partiallyLocatedIn → British Museum ⓘ

British Library → predecessor → British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Library

Babylonian chronicles → preservedIn → British Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Babylonian Chronicles

the Parthenon → sculpturesHeldAt → British Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Parthenon

Natural History Museum, London → separatedFrom → British Museum ⓘ

Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Elgin → soldTo → British Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

Hormuzd Rassam → workedFor → British Museum ⓘ