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    The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75...
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    British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight...
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    non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. As with other national British museums, entrance is free. The V&A covers...
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  • British Museum describes how ethnography has developed at the British Museum. The ethnographical collection was originally linked to the Department of...
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    Asia (/ˈeɪʒə/ AY-zhə, UK also /ˈeɪʃə/ AY-shə) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44...
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    The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics...
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    000 works, forms a significant part of the collections of the British Museum, and the world's largest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq...
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  • The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at...
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    Their presence in the British Museum is the subject of longstanding international controversy. In Britain, the acquisition of the collection was supported...
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    the British Museum, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Windsor Great Park, Bushy Park, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Pitt Rivers Museum at...
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  • heads of the various departments of the British Museum. They are professional curators and related academics. There are currently nine departments plus...
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    the British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of 26 atolls of Maldives in South Asia, Maritime Southeast Asia is the only other subregion of Asia that...
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  • Sushma Jansari (category Employees of the British Museum)
    Seleucid-Mauryan relations in British and Indian scholarship". While working on her PhD, Jansari joined the British Museum's Department of Asia and curated the ancient...
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    South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms. As commonly conceptualized, the modern states...
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    non-departmental public bodies including a number of museums and galleries: Arts Council England British Film Institute British Library British Museum Equality...
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    coast of Borneo Island in Southeast Asia. Brunei became a sovereign state around the 15th century, when it substantially expanded after the fall of Malacca...
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  • side of the Bosporus and Dardanelles are in Europe, but all of Turkey's museum ships are presented together in the Asia section of this "List of museum ships"...
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    and Later South Asia, which would benefit its Department of Islamic Art and some of the museum's other principal projects. As a token of its appreciation...
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    achievements in these fields. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group, a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and...
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    humanitarian aid. Since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 (later succeeded by the United Kingdom), the British Armed Forces have seen action...
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    Bethnal Green Museum (now known as the V&A Museum of Childhood) Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum British Music Experience, closed in 2014 BT Museum Church Farmhouse...
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  • The Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS) is an international cross-cultural network of museums. The museums in the ASEMUS network are located in Europe...
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    part of the collection of The Jordan Museum. Prior to the establishment of the Museum, the British Mandate's Department of Antiquities and British School...
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    in 2018. It has the richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia. The museum is located in what is known as the Pantheon...
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    Aurel Stein (category People associated with the British Museum)
    was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor...
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    are charged for. The museum was one of the first projects carried out under the UK private finance initiative: a non-departmental public body, the Royal...
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    Southeast Asia had a profound impact on the region's cultural development and its history. As the Indic scripts were introduced from India, people of Southeast...
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    National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland...
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    of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang (Chinese: 南洋; pinyin: nán yáng; lit. 'Southern Ocean'), namely the British Colonial...
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    Chinese Culture Gallery and the South Asia Gallery. The South Asia Gallery is a partnership with the British Museum and will be the first ever permanent...
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