The trustees planned to demolish these houses and to build around the west, north and east sides of the museum new galleries that would completely fill the block on which the museum stands.
The most famous guard at the British Museum was a cat One of the furry facts about the British Museum is that it has been home a lot of cats over the centuries.
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Another outstanding exemplar is the mourner's dress from given to Cook on his , one of only ten in existence.
There are approximately 50,000 drawings and over two million prints dating from the beginning of the 15th century up to the present, featuring everything from drawings by Leonardo, Michelangelo and Van Gogh to prints by Picasso, Munch and Grayson Perry.
If you care about museums or art, history, culture or justice this is the closest thing I know to an essential read but if you're anything at all like me, expect it to leave you disturbed, saddened and blazingly angry.