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1 What does the following picture show?  The entrance to the museum      The British Museum, Room 6 - Pair of Human Headed Winged Lions and Reliefs from Nimrud with The Gates of Balawat   Opening of The White Wing, King Edward VII's Galleries (1914)

2 After the defeat of the French forces under Napoleon at the ________ in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the British army and presented to the British Museum in 1803.

3 What does the following picture show?  The entrance to the museum   Montagu House   The re-opened Duveen Gallery, (1980)   The British Museum, Room 21 - Mausoleum of Halikarnassos

4 Overseas excavations continued and John Turtle Wood discovered the remains of the 4th century BC ________ at Ephesos, another Wonder of the Ancient World.

5 Where is British Museum?

6 Egyptian antiquities have formed part of the British Museum collection ever since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects[42] from Sir ________.

7 It ranks as one of the largest and best print room collections in existence alongside the Albertina in ________, the Paris collections and the Hermitage.

8 The British Museum continues to assert that it is an appropriate custodian and has an inalienable right to its disputed artefacts under ________.

9 When was British Museum established?

10 Aboriginal human remains - returned to ________ by the British museum.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • on his death in 1727, antiquary and historian Thomas Madox's unpublished notes ran to ninety-four volumes, which his wife later left to be added to the British Museum's Sloane library?
  • a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
  • the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
  • the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum bears the inscription "This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ"?
  • the Nereid Monument was constructed in the British Museum in 1969 from material brought from Lycia in 1840?
  • the Lothair Crystal, an engraved gem now in the British Museum, was once sold for ten pounds?
  • a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall in Cheshire, England?
  • a ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle made by Thomas Earnshaw is now in the British Museum?
  • Charles Gray was one of the original trustees of the British Museum?
  • Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum?
  • Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides, a forger of manuscripts?
  • The British Museum Friends recently provided funding to help the British Museum acquire twelve Greek papyri from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri?
  • British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh was a self-taught artist, yet managed to fool the British Museum, the Tate Modern, and Bonhams, Sotheby's and Christie's?
  • English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides, which he left in his will to the British Museum?
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