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Tonight, let's relax with a guide to one of the world's great collections of stuff, with how to see the British Museum in Four Visits

By W Blanchard Gerald, first published in London in 1852.

Let's begin.

How to see the British Museum in Four Visits.

Introduction The money to found a British Introduction

The money to found a British museum was raised by a lottery in the middle of the last century. Sir Hans Sloane, having offered his books and Museum of Natural History, to Parliament for less than half its value 20,000 pounds, it was purchased together with the famous Harlan and Ketonian manuscripts,

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