{"id":3527,"count":1,"description":"The <b>British Museum<\/b> is a public museum dedicated to <a title=\"Human history\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_history\">human history<\/a>, art and culture located in the <a title=\"Bloomsbury\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloomsbury\">Bloomsbury<\/a> area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works.\u00a0 \u00a0Among the <a title=\"List of largest art museums\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_largest_art_museums\">largest<\/a> and most comprehensive in existence.<sup id=\"cite_ref-britishmuseum.org_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-britishmuseum.org-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-4\">[a]<\/a><\/sup> The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-5\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n\r\nThe museum\u00a0 established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Anglo-Irish physician and scientist <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Sir Hans Sloane\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Hans_Sloane\">Sir Hans Sloane<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-6\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> It first opened to the public in 1759, in <a title=\"Montagu House, Bloomsbury\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montagu_House,_Bloomsbury\">Montagu House.<\/a> On the site of the current building. The museum's expansion over the following 250 years. It was largely a result of British colonisation and resulted in the creation of several branch institutions. For independent spin-offs, the first being the <a title=\"Natural History Museum, London\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_History_Museum,_London\">Natural History Museum<\/a> in 1881. The right to ownership of some of its most well-known acquisitions, notably the Greek <a title=\"Elgin Marbles\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elgin_Marbles\">Elgin Marbles<\/a> and the Egyptian <a title=\"Rosetta Stone\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosetta_Stone\">Rosetta Stone<\/a>, is subject to long-term disputes and <a title=\"Repatriation (cultural property)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Repatriation_(cultural_property)\">repatriation<\/a> claims.<sup id=\"cite_ref-rosetta_stone_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-rosetta_stone-7\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-looted_art_8-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-looted_art-8\">[7]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n\r\nIn 1973, the British Library Act 1972<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum#cite_note-9\">[8]<\/a><\/sup> detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated <a title=\"British Library\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Library\">British Library<\/a> in the same <a title=\"British Museum Reading Room\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Museum_Reading_Room\">Reading Room<\/a> and building as the museum until 1997. 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