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Bust of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), by (Rowan Gillespie. Installed in 2022. Long Room Stall K.
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Gaia is an artwork by Luke Jerram featuring 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth's surface. Gaia was a mythological goddess and personification of the Earth, often referred to as Mother Earth.
The 6 metre diameter installation allows us to see our planet on this scale, floating in 3D.
Common features of the experience for astronauts are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
Long Room, Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin.
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The Reading Room stands at the heart of the Museum, in the centre of the Great Court. Completed in 1857, it was hailed as one of the great sights of London and became a world-famous centre of learning.
By the early 1850s, the British Museum Library needed a larger reading room. Antonio Panizzi, the Keeper of Printed Books (1837–1856), had the idea of constructing a round room in the empty central courtyard of the Museum building. With a design by Sydney Smirke (1798–1877), work on the Reading Room began in 1854. Three years later it was completed.
Using cast iron, concrete, glass and the latest heating and ventilation systems, it was a masterpiece of mid-19th century technology. The room had a diameter of 42.6m (140ft) and was inspired by the domed Pantheon in Rome. However, it isn't a free-standing dome in the technical sense. It has been constructed in segments on a cast-iron framework. The ceiling is suspended on cast iron struts hanging down from the frame and is made out of papier-mâché. Many bookstacks were built surrounding the new Reading Room. They were made of iron to take the weight of the books and protect them against fire. In all, they contained three miles (4.8km) of bookcases and 25 miles (40km) of shelves.
The Reading Room opened on 2 May 1857. Between 8–16 May, the Library was opened up for a special one-off public viewing. More than 62,000 visitors came to marvel at the new building. Those wanting to use it had to apply in writing and were issued a reader's ticket by the Principal Librarian. Among those granted tickets were: Karl Marx, Lenin (who signed in under the name Jacob Richter) and novelists such as Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In 1997 the books were moved to a new purpose-built building in St Pancras and the bookstacks were taken down. As part of the Great Court development the interior of the Reading Room was carefully restored. This process saw the papier mâché interior of the dome repaired and the original blue, cream and gold colour scheme reinstated. When it reopened in 2000, the Reading Room was made available to all Museum visitors for the first time. It housed a modern information centre, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre, and a collection of 25,000 books, catalogues and other printed material, which focused on the world cultures represented in the Museum.
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The Great Court at the British Museum, officially named the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, is a two-acre covered square at the center of the British Museum. Opened in December 2000 and designed by Foster and Partners, the space transformed the museum’s inner courtyard—formerly occupied by the British Library bookstacks—into the largest covered public square in Europe. Its signature feature is the sweeping glass and steel roof, engineered by Buro Happold and built by Waagner-Biro, composed of 3,312 uniquely shaped panes. The 19th-century domed Reading Room sits at its heart, encircled by circulation routes, galleries, and visitor facilities.
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.
Project at work for social media -- we were encouraged to create "bookstacks" of some of our favorite reads. I created mine using Hugo Award-winning novels, and the image of our Hugo Awards Winners web page on the libraries' BookGuide readers advisory pages that I maintain. ( lincolnlibraries.org/bookguide/award-winners/hugo-awards/ )