The British Museum: the Birth of the First Public Museum
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As the oldest and grandest comprehensive museum in the world, the British Museum has gradually developed from a small warehouse with collections randomly stacked over hundreds of years into a world-renowned public museum with more than 8 million pieces of various collections spanning the entire development of human civilization. It has created many firsts and houses treasures from all over the world, but how did it appear? As a museum open to the public, how does it attract those "those who are eager to learn and seek knowledge"? The author of this book, James Hamilton, begins with the collector Sir Hans Sloane, and leads readers to review the social and cultural background of this troubled museum at the beginning, its subsequent gradual expansion, as well as those who played an important role in the history of the museum's development, and the museum itself's profound impact on Britain and the world.
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