British Museum Reading Room

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cultural heritage site library hall reading room

The British Museum Reading Room is a historic domed library hall in London that long served as the main reading room of the British Museum and later the British Library.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Reading Room of the British Museum	2
British Museum Library	1
British Museum Reading Room dome	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural heritage site ⓘ library hall ⓘ reading room ⓘ
architect	Anthony Panizzi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sydney Smirke NERFINISHED ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Neoclassical architecture ⓘ
category	British Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Domes in London ⓘ Libraries in London ⓘ
ceilingDecoration	painted panels ⓘ
constructionStart	1854 ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
floorPlan	radial ⓘ
formerFunction	main reading room of the British Library ⓘ main reading room of the British Museum ⓘ
hasCatalogueSystem	centralized catalogue ⓘ
hasDome	true ⓘ
hasSeatingCapacity	over 400 readers ⓘ
heritageDesignation	Grade I listed building interior ⓘ
inception	1857 ⓘ
influenced	design of later research libraries ⓘ
locatedIn	Bloomsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ British Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ England ⓘ London NERFINISHED ⓘ
material	brick ⓘ glass ⓘ iron ⓘ
near	Great Court of the British Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFeature	central catalogue desk ⓘ large central dome ⓘ surrounding bookstacks ⓘ
notableUser	George Bernard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahatma Gandhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Woolf NERFINISHED ⓘ
opened	1857 ⓘ
operator	British Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	British Library (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ British Museum complex NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Court redevelopment context ⓘ
publicAccess	restricted ⓘ
roofType	iron-framed dome ⓘ
shape	circular ⓘ
usedBy	researchers ⓘ scholars ⓘ writers ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

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

Reading Room → associatedWith → British Museum Reading Room ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Library

British Museum Great Court → encloses → British Museum Reading Room ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reading Room of the British Museum

British Museum Great Court → hasStaircaseTo → British Museum Reading Room ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reading Room of the British Museum

British Museum Great Court → hasViewOf → British Museum Reading Room ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Reading Room dome

Great Court → surrounds → British Museum Reading Room ⓘ