关于“大英博物馆”英文简介 内容涉及从中国掠走的宝物的消息

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The British Museum is bringing a new exhibit to Beijing on Britain’s emergence as a world power during the Georgian period.The exhibit, titled “Britain eets the World, 1714-1830,” opens today in a new exhibition gallery in the Meridian Gate (Wumen) at the entrance to the Forbidden City, and will run for three months.This collaborative exhibition marks the first development of the historic “Memorandum of Understanding,” signed by the British Museum and the Palace Museum in Beijing in June 2006. The agreement also involves curatorial exchanges, sharing skills and joint projts, which will benefit museums and audiences in both countries.

The exhibit is composed of four parts and displays historical objects from the reign of George I to that of George IV, from 1714 to 1830, as well as masterpieces of ancient world cultures. In the over one hundred sets from the British Museum and more than ten sets from the Palace Museum, visitors are able to see cultural attractions from around the world and appreciate the contributions of both Eastern and Western civilizations.

“The British Museum is committed to sharing its exceptional collection with the world,” Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said at Wednesday pressonference. “With this exhibit we hope to show China something of the Britons who applied their intellectual energy, ingenuity and physical courage to encounters with the world as Britain emerged on the international stge,” he said.In addition to this exhibit, MacGregor said, the British Museum is engaged in many other projects in China. The museum has sent specialists to the Palace Museum to conduct a survey of the museum’s Europen clocks collection, and Chinese curators have been invited to the British Museum each year to take part in its international summer school.

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