British Museum given its most valuable gift ever
The British Museum is to receive what is believed to be the highest-value gift ever received by a UK museum with the ...
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Shopper bought a vase for $3.99 at a thrift store — it turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact
The vase turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact that is now headed to a Mexican museum. “It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction ...
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The high-pressure world of moving priceless museum art
This is where manual labor meets the sublime. Art handlers, movers and preparators are among the few people who actually get ...
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 ...
British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion
The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...
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A Catalogue of Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Originally published in 1897, this book was written to provide both archaeologists and visitors with an accessible guide to Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum: 'to publish and make accessible to ...