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British Museum

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British Museum
n
(Placename) a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library


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He had reason to believe that discoveries made by modern travelers in Central America had been reported from time to time by the English press; and he wished copies to be taken of any notices of this sort which might be found, on referring to the files of newspapers kept in the reading-room of the British Museum.
The mummy room of the British Museum had been one of the chief delights of her childhood.
At the British Museum the pigeons were crooning among the shadows of the grimy colonnade, and the stalwart janitors looked less stalwart than usual, as though their medals were too heavy for them.
 
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