Photolog: British Museum
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Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
‘Photolog’ is a new series of posts with predominant focus on photographs rather than text. I’ll be posting a selection of images from my photographic endeavors that are mostly around travel, nature, landscape and urban photography.
Starting with one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture the British Museum London. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887… more
Bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Roman Sculptures
Crouching Venus, Roman, circa 1st century AD
Crouching Venus, Roman, circa 1st century AD
Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis of Athens – 447 BC
Colossal statue of Ramesses II, the ‘Younger Memnon’ – 1250 BC
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