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The Art Newspaper1y
After ten years, the British Museum’s Reading Room is still out of bounds
This month marks ten years since the British Museum’s Round Reading ... diameter room was inspired by the Pantheon temple in Rome. The room served readers of the British Museum Library (later ...
Country Life9mon
At last, a new chapter for the Reading Room at the British Museum
Opened by the late Queen in 2000, the Great Court of the British Museum ... Some of that library, however, never left. The cylindrical centrepiece to which all that tessellated glass is affixed is the ...
Architects' Journal5y
British Library members room completed by White Red Architects
The 96m² room has been inspired by Colin St John Wilson and MJ Long’s choice of materials Emerging practice White Red Architects was commissioned to design a new study space for London’s British ...
Time Out2y
Finally, a chance to peek inside British Museum’s famous domed reading room
Originally it housed the British Library, which means that you’ll ... t give you enough time to find a cursed Egyptian book, the reading of which will cast untold doom on you and your associates ...
GIGAZINE1y
How does the British Library collect and manage all the books published in the country?
You cannot borrow books from the British Library and take them home. Books ordered can only be read in the reading room and must be returned on the same day. Previously, in order to obtain a ...
The Art Newspaper11mon
British Museum’s historic Reading Room opens to the public after 11 years
The British Museum’s vast and imposing Round Reading Room has reopened this week to all visitors after being closed for the past 11 years. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 ...