British Museum: Misc

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on his death in 1727, antiquary and historian Thomas Madox's unpublished notes ran to ninety-four volumes, which his wife later left to be added to the British Museum's Sloane library?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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The British Museum was a major museum devoted to human history and culture, located in London.

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During the Victorian era the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan went there. While there they encountered Egyptian religous fanatics, who kidnapped Nyssa. (MA: The Sands of Time)

Del McAllen worked at the museum. (NSA: Snowglobe 7)

In an alternate timeline in which Germany won World War II, the British Museum was renamed the Reichsmuseum. The works of art displayed there were taken by Hermann Goering to Berlin, and the building was used to store military archives. The Doctor, while posing as a Reichsinspektor General, visited the museum to consult the archives and find out when the timeline had changed. (NA: Timewyrm: Exodus)

In the year 5000 of another alternate timeline, the few remaining normal humans lived in what remained of the British Museum. (TVA: A Stitch in Time)

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British Museum

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