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Bram Stoker's application for a ticket for the British Museum Library

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) describes himself in this letter as …
Catalogue of casts of classical sculpture in the British Museum

Today, replicas of many objects from The British Museum's co…
Charles Townley, a draft catalogue of sculptures at Park Street, Westminster

At the end of the eighteenth century, Charles Townley's magn…
Charles Townley's sketch for a proposed Museum extension

In 1791 the collector Charles Townley was elected onto the B…
Deed of bargain and sale of Montagu House

In 1675 Ralph Montagu bought Baber's Field, on what was then…
Design for illuminating the front gate of Montagu House

The reign of King George III began on 25 October 1760, thus …
Design for the title page of A Catalogue of Benefactions to the British Museum...

One of the main series of records of the British Museum is c…
Donald Macbeth, One of the Ethnography Galleries, a photograph

In 1883, with the move of the Natural History collections of…
Donald Macbeth, The Manuscripts Saloon, a photograph

This room is on the ground floor of the East Wing of the Mus…
Early accounts of the British Museum

Between 1761 and 1803 the Principal Librarian's clerk kept a…
East Wing exterior of The British Museum (the King's Library), a print

The East Wing, built between 1823 and 1828, was the first pa…
Excerpt from the travel diary of Charles Townley

Charles Townley (1737-1805) was a collector of classical ant…
Extract from Charles Townley's Will

From the time of his first Grand Tour in 1768 until his deat…
Frederick York, Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase, a photograph

It is early morning in 1875 in the Main Entrance Hall of The…
Frederick York, Mastodon and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, photographs

In the nineteenth century there were 'dinosaurs' of sorts on…
Frederick York, The British and Medieval Room, a photograph

In 1875 the Museum Guide Book stated that this room containe…
Frederick York, The Central Saloon, a photograph

This photograph of 1875 shows one of the most popular exhibi…
Frederick York, The Eastern Zoological Gallery , a photograph

The Eastern Zoological Gallery used to be above the King's L…
Frederick York, The Ethnography Gallery, a photograph

Between 1850 and 1900 the size of The British Museum's Ethno…
Frederick York, The First Egyptian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
Frederick York, The Grenville Library, a photograph

Sir Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) was a Trustee of The Britis…
Frederick York, The King's Library, a photograph

In 1823 King George IV presented his father's library to the…
Frederick York, The Mammalian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
George Cruikshank, Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!, a cartoon

In its early days the British Museum had a Department of Nat…
George Saunders, Design for the West Wing (elevation and section)

In 1803 George Saunders, the British Museum's architect, was…
George Saunders, Plan of The British Museum site

Montagu House, built in 1686, was the first home of The Brit…
Henry Wood's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) used the Reading Room of The B…
Insurance certificate for part of Montagu House

The Trustees of The British Museum bought Montagu House in 1…
Invitation to a private view of the Round Reading Room

By the early 1850s the British Museum Library badly needed a…
Jacob Richter (Lenin): signatures of readers for the British Museum Reading Room

The real name of the architect of the 1917 Russian Revolutio…
James Simon, The North Front of Montagu House and Gardens, an engraving

Montagu House in Bloomsbury was rebuilt for Ralph Montagu fo…
Letter from John T. Wood to J. Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of The British Museum

John Turtle Wood (1821-1890) was a professional architect, b…
Letter from T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) to Leonard Woolley

Between 1911 and 1914 a British Museum expedition carried ou…
Letter relating to evacuation of the British Museum's collections during the Second World War

During the 1930s, the British Museum was making plans to sen…
Letter relating to the evacuation of the British Museum's collections during the Second World War

While the Museum's collections of books, manuscripts, prints…
Letter to Charles Townley from Gavin Hamilton, describing excavations in Italy

In this thirteen-page letter to Charles Townley, Gavin Hamil…
Letter to Charles Townley from Thomas Jenkins concerning the Discobolos

Thomas Jenkins (1722-98) was born in Rome. He studied painti…
List of Marbles discovered by Gavin Hamilton in the ruins near Rome since 1769

During the eighteenth century, visitors on the Grand Tour ma…
Memorial from the National Sunday League on the Sunday opening of the British Museum

For more than a century the British Museum has opened on Sun…
Minutes of the first meeting of the Trustees of The British Museum

The British Museum Act of 1753 set up a Board of Trustees to…
Notes on the application of Henry Hook, V.C., for a post as a labourer at The British Museum

The man whose name appears on this document could not fill i…
One of the King Edward VII Galleries under construction, a photograph

The King Edward VII's Galleries were built between 1906 and …
Plan of the Mausoleum Room

In 1856 the British Museum acquired most of the remains of t…
Plans of Montagu House by Henry Flitcroft

In 1725 the architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) was asked …
Poster advertising the sale of building materials

Between 1823 and 1852 the new British Museum building design…
Report by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge to the Trustees of The British Museum

Between December 1898 and January 1899, Wallis Budge visited…
Robert Smirke, South Elevation of the North Wing, a drawing

The North Wing was designed by Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867)…
Roger Fenton, The Discus-thrower (discobolos), a photograph

In this unusual photograph by Roger Fenton we see a famous R…
Roger Fenton, The Mineral Gallery, a photograph

In 1857 the Mineral collection of The British Museum was dis…
Roger Fenton, The South Front, a photograph

For many people, Sir Robert Smirke's massive nineteenth-cent…
Roger Fenton, The Third Graeco-Roman Saloon on Artists' Day, a photograph

This photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), the famous Vict…
Sir Hans Sloane, an engraving from a portrait by T. Murray

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founder of The British M…
Sir Henry Ellis before a Parliamentary Committee, a caricature

In 1833 the Trustees asked for the usual annual sum of money…
Sir Robert Smirke, Design for showcases for The British Museum

As the present-day Museum building was erected, between the …
Sir Robert Smirke, Seat proposed for the Gallery of Antiquities, a drawing

The architect Robert Smirke was a follower of the Greek Revi…
Sir Robert Smirke, The South Wing, a drawing

By 1841 the East Wing, North Wing and half of the West Wing …
Sutton Nicholls, Montagu House, an engraving

Montagu House, the first home of The British Museum, was bui…
Teaching from the Collections, an engraving

The Clore Centre for Education follows a long association wi…
The Arched Room in The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The Arched Room in The British Museum was built between 1837…
The British Museum Act of 1753 (26 Geo. II cap. XXII)

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) owned huge collections of books,…
The British Museum Security Staff, by an unknown photographer

Here we see The British Museum Security staff photographed o…
The Eastern Zoological Gallery in the East Wing of The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The two-storey East Wing of The British Museum was designed …
The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery on the introduction of the electric light, an engraving

Until the late nineteenth century The British Museum was lit…
The Entrance Gates to The British Museum, an engraving

For almost 150 years the front of The British Museum has bee…
The Grand Saloon and the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, an engraving

The engraving shows the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery soon afte…
The Long Room of The British Museum, an engraving

In 1845 it was decided to build a long, single-storey galler…
The Main Entrance Hall, a photograph

The Main Entrance Hall has seen many changes since it opened…
The Main Entrance Hall and Staircase, a print

The Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase of the British Mu…

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