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British Museum Gets a Giant Gift

The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 2h

British Museum receives largest donation in its history with Chinese ceramics collection

The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a dedicated gallery.

The New York Times · 2d

The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.

The Independent on MSN · 1d

British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection

British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection - The collection has been on loan to the museum since 2009 in the specially designed bilingual Room 95.

London Evening Standard1d

British Museum gifted huge collection of Chinese ceramics worth staggering £1billion

The final transfer of ownership to the British Museum is to be determined by the Charity Commission's consent. Although a ...

The Art Newspaper10h

Sponsorship, sustainability and security: what’s the future for UK museums?

The directors of the British Museum, V&A East and Tate Modern talked activism, funding, empire and more in a wide-ranging ...

Quiz of the Day

And while all that would have been enough to earn him a Britannica entry, he also started the British museum. And he ...

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Picasso: printmaker at the British Museum review – an eye-opener of a show in more ways than one

Picasso’s first word, apparently, was “pencil”. Well we know what he could do with one of those, for he was a superlative ...

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