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British Museum Gets a Giant Gift

The New York Times · 2d

The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.

The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 1d

British Museum receives largest donation in its history with Chinese ceramics collection

The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a dedicated gallery.

Hosted on MSN · 1d

British Museum Receives $1.2 B. Worth of Chinese Ceramics, the Largest Gift in its History

The British Museum has been gifted one of the world's most prodigious collections of Chinese ceramics, worth £1 billion ($1.27 billion), in what is likely the highest-value donation of art ever received by a UK museum.

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British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’

The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...

Portuguese Holocaust Museum and British Embassy mark anniversary of Kristallnacht

The anniversary of Kristallnacht was commemorated on Thursday by the Holocaust Museum in Oporto, Portugal, in the presence ...

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