The British Museum Collection Reaches Record Audiences Worldwide
Museum employee Esme Wilson poses with the Marble Cycladic figurine of the "hunter-warrior" type at the British Museum in London June 28, 2011. The rare male figurine, which dates back to between 2300-2200BC is a new aquisition for the museum and was displayed for the first time at the publication of the Annual Review 2010/11. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor. LONDON.- On the occasion of the publication of the Annual Review of 2010/11, the British Museum announces future plans alongside a review of international successes in the last year.Review of 2010/11:
• The British Museum remained the most popular cultural attraction in the UK for a fourth year running, receiving 5.8 million visitors in 2010/2011, 4.9% more than in the previous year.
• The BM website continued to diversify with the launch in 2010 of a Chinese language version and a version in Arabic, both supported by the World Collections Programme. Online collection records grew to 1.93 million. There are now nearly 800,000 images of the collection available for public consultation on the BM website. About 8.7 million people accessed the main BM website in 2010/11, with 21 million visits overall to all the BM websites.
• Popular temporary exhibitions continue to draw in large numbers of visitors, with Italian Renaissance Drawings, supported by BP, receiving over 116,000 visitors and Journey Through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, also supported by BP, receiving 192,000 visitors. Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World, supported by Bank of America Merrill Lynch has received over 95,000 visitors so far and has been extended by a month to 17th July 2011. Over 400,000 visitors enjoyed temporary exhibitions in the Reading Room and Room 35 in 2010/11.
• Free exhibitions are hugely popular and continue to offer visitors a chance to explore more focused subject matter and provide unique insight into the British Museum’s unrivalled collection. Australia Season, supported by Rio Tinto, runs until the end of September. It includes a landscape on the Forecourt created in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and two free exhibitions, Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas and Baskets and Belongings: Indigenous Australian histories which are averaging 1,500 visitors per day.
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Popular temporary exhibitions continue to draw in large numbers of visitors, with Italian Renaissance Drawings, supported by BP, receiving over 116000 visitors and Journey Through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, also supported by BP,
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only heads of Egyptian mummies. According the display information, mummies were often cut into pieces and sold to tourists. Artifacts on display include items used in the burial process such as a heart scarab, fragments from the Book of the Dead,
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@OnTheFence31 Thats bullshit! Your a Lier and you know it. We see Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tye are clearly black (Grandmother and Grandfather). Now we see AmenhotepIV (Ahkenaten) and his wife Nefertiti (clearly not white names) the parents. How in the hell do you get 4 black people and there offspring is white? You cant help but lie and steal its in your caveman instincts. Look at the lips on his mask hell look at everthing that was found in his tomb…A BLACK MAN!!! get over it!
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