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The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.
just a teeny tiny few of the bazillion England/Britain/Victorian/antique books I can't stop buying off amazon and the used bookstore. My excuse is I need them for my tumblr blog.
I think I better get to finishing some of these before I make yet another trip to Half Price Books.
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The box with the requested book winds its way through the book stack toward the Main Reading Room
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NRC technical librarian, Lee Wittenstein, stands next to the bookstacks at the NRC Technical Library at headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. #OnTheJob
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September 2017.
Visiting properties taking part in London Open House 2017.
The London Library, founded in 1841, is one of the world's largest independent lending libraries.
This is a representational image of what the Treadwell Library stacks look like. This is the second floor which houses print journals A-F.
These pictures were taken on a Saturday, so the library is very empty.
Sept 20-21, 2013 - Artists gathered for the opening reception and Gallery talk at the Lamont gallery, On & Off the Page exhibition. Featured artists Peter Beaman '63, Liz Maugans, Maureen Mills, Melanie Mowinski and Lisa Occhipinti. Nicola Vruwink joined us Sept 9-10 installing her work and visiting lectures as well!
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