Tag: British Museum
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About a wall: Hadrian at the British Museum
History, at least in Northern Europe, essentially defines the Emperor Hadrian, subject of the British Museum’s brilliant new exhibition, as the man who ordered the Wall. Hadrian was always concerned with controlling entry to the Empire’s successors in the Western…
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Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830
The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…
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Worldly Wisdom: The Enlightenment Gallery
British Museum, London. Opened 12 December 2003
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The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures
The British Museum, London, 17 April-7 September 2003
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Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist
British Museum, London. 5 December-23 March 2003
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British Museum secures treasure
The government’s decision to appoint Neil MacGregor as Director of the British Museum
