Презентация. "Британский музей"

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The British Museum was established in 1753. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury. Museum of London is one of the world's greatest museums in all of human history. Collection of the British Museum has more than thirteen million objects from all continents.

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British Museum its several parts with different directions. It consists of a "Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography", "Library", " Collection of prints and drawings" and "Museum of Natural History." Great Court

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Now the British National Museum - has a huge collection of rare artworks. Hall of the Egyptian Antiquities has statues of Egyptian gods and pharaohs, mummies, clothing, jewelry.

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British Library has about 14 million books, 920,000 magazines and newspapers , 3 million sound recordings and 58 million patents. There are unique exhibits - Leonardo da Vinci manuscript, handwritten scores by Mozart, Britten, Bach, "Gutenberg Bible", etc.

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Reading Room of the British Museum is a separate item on the list of Masterpieces of the museum. Once inside the walls of this room worked, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, Herbert Wells and other famous personalities. Today enter the reading room may only professional researchers.

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Elgin marbles. Collection of sculptural friezes that once adorned the Greek Acropolis. Today in the British museum are statues from the Parthenon, part of the relief frieze "Panathenaic procession", temple friezes Wingless Victory in Athens, the statue of Dionysus and other specimens of ancient Greek art. The statue of Dionysus Elgin marbles.

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