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Deciphering the world's oldest rule book | Irving Finkel | Curator's Corner pilot
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Tom Scott vs Dr Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur | TRAILER | International Tabletop Day 2017 - Duration: 78 seconds.
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Hidden Treasure: a gold hoard found in a piano - Duration: 4 minutes, 50 seconds.
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Curating America: the importance of prints - Duration: 4 minutes, 4 seconds.
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A 3,500-year-old refugee from Aleppo | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 5 - Duration: 6 minutes, 37 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 10: Completion - Duration: 3 minutes, 54 seconds.
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Defacing coins like a suffragette | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 4 - Duration: 7 minutes.
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Ancient Egyptian poetry: The Tale of Sinuhe - Duration: 7 minutes, 24 seconds.
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Wear with Pride: LGBTQ badges at the British Museum | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 3 - Duration: 5 minutes, 38 seconds.
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The American Dream: pop to the present at the British Museum - Duration: 80 seconds.
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Why you should love Japanese manhole covers | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 2 - Duration: 5 minutes, 25 seconds.
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The oldest portrait in the British Museum (probably) | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 1 - Duration: 4 minutes, 57 seconds.
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258 years of the British Museum - Duration: 3 minutes.
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What's on at the British Museum
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The American Dream: pop to the present at the British Museum - Duration: 80 seconds.
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Curating America: the importance of prints - Duration: 4 minutes, 4 seconds.
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Curator's Corner
Curators of the British Museum tell you all about themselves, their research and what it's like to work with some of the world's oldest and most significant objects.-
A 3,500-year-old refugee from Aleppo | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 5 - Duration: 6 minutes, 37 seconds.
Idrimi was a refugee who fled Aleppo in Syria about 3,500 years ago – the same Aleppo so often in the news today. Later, as a much older man, Idrimi had this statue made of himself, with his life s...- CC
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Defacing coins like a suffragette | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 4 - Duration: 7 minutes.
Have you ever tried to get into the mind of a suffragette? British Museum curator Tom Hockenhull has... and not in the way you might expect from a numismatist.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/b...- CC
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Wear with Pride: LGBTQ badges at the British Museum | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 3 - Duration: 5 minutes, 38 seconds.
'[The British Museum’s] collection of lesbian and gay badges is not widely known, but is kept in the butch Coins and Medals section just to the left of those very interestingly painted Greek vases....- CC
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Why you should love Japanese manhole covers | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 2 - Duration: 5 minutes, 25 seconds.
While walking through the streets of Nagaoka in Japan, Curator Nicole Rousmaniere noticed she was standing on a prehistoric Japanese pot…well, a representation of one of these pots.
‘Dezain manhōr...- CC
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The oldest portrait in the British Museum (probably) | Curator's Corner Season 2 Episode 1 - Duration: 4 minutes, 57 seconds.
Over many years, Curator Alexandra Fletcher has formed a particularly strong bond with one of the… older people in the British Museum. In fact, she was one of the first to see his face in over 9,50...- CC
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How to make a Celtic torc| Curator’s Corner Season 1 Episode 7 - Duration: 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
Being Curator of the European Iron Age at the British Museum is a tough job, especially when you’re honing your blacksmithing skills. Julia Farley explains the processes behind making a Celtic torc...- CC
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World History Lab
The World History Lab is a Heritage Lottery funded project which aims to highlight the Conservation and Scientific research work at the British Museum.-
Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 10: Completion - Duration: 3 minutes, 54 seconds.
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Zulu rifle headrest - Duration: 4 minutes, 9 seconds.
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Checking for pests on ‘Potent Fields’ by Karel Nel - Duration: 4 minutes.
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Conservation of a Xhosa pipe and snuff holder - Duration: 2 minutes, 59 seconds.
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Conserving a Ndebele beaded blanket - Duration: 4 minutes, 53 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 9: Colour matching - Duration: 4 minutes, 12 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 8: Mould making and resin casting - Duration: 4 minutes, 43 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 7: Gap fills - Duration: 4 minutes, 28 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 6: Reconstruction - Duration: 4 minutes, 43 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn | Episode 5: Analysis - Duration: 2 minutes, 56 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn - Episode 4: Dismantling - Duration: 3 minutes, 40 seconds.
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Conservation of a Romano-British urn - Episode 3: Preparation for dismantling - Duration: 2 minutes, 9 seconds.
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Stories from the British Museum
Every one of the 8 million objects in the British Museum's Collection has a fascinating story waiting to be discovered. This is just a small sample of those stories, brought to life by the curators, artists and conservators who work to uncover our collective pasts.-
Ancient Egyptian poetry: The Tale of Sinuhe - Duration: 7 minutes, 24 seconds.
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Maggi Hambling on life, death and drawing - Duration: 15 minutes.
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Hartwig Fischer: the British Museum's new director - Duration: 4 minutes, 4 seconds.
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Kakiemon: a history of making Japanese porcelain - Duration: 4 minutes, 34 seconds.
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The Rolls-Royce of Renaissance clocks - Duration: 4 minutes, 15 seconds.
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Tour of the exhibition Germany: memories of a nation with British Museum Director Neil MacGregor - Duration: 26 minutes.
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George the Poet – The Benin bronze - Duration: 3 minutes, 28 seconds.
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Mexican Day of the Dead - Duration: 5 minutes, 17 seconds.
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Was the ark round? The new Babylonian text that reshaped Noah’s Ark - Duration: 5 minutes, 9 seconds.
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A history of the British Museum building: Neil MacGregor - Duration: 7 minutes, 15 seconds.
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Making a traditional Chinese hanging scroll - Duration: 8 minutes, 45 seconds.
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The Salonika Campaign: archaeology in the trenches - Duration: 10 minutes.
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Learn ancient techniques and crafts with the British Museum. Everything from 2,000-year-old Roman bread recipes to 17th century Venetian glass blowing.-
How to make a Celtic torc| Curator’s Corner Season 1 Episode 7 - Duration: 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
Being Curator of the European Iron Age at the British Museum is a tough job, especially when you’re honing your blacksmithing skills. Julia Farley explains the processes behind making a Celtic torc...- CC
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How to play an ancient rock gong - Duration: 8 minutes, 23 seconds.
The British Museum invited Dr Cornelia Kleinitz, an archaeologist specialising in rock art, and Liam Williamson, a modern rock drummer, to try and discover how a rock gong might have been played. ...- CC
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Making a traditional Chinese hanging scroll - Duration: 8 minutes, 45 seconds.
Senior Conservator Mrs Jin Xian Qiu has spent the last 43 years mastering the traditional Chinese method of mounting a hanging scroll. Watch as she prepares and hangs two works by Chinese artist Qu... -
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In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British Museum asked Giorgio Locatelli to recreate the recipe as ...- CC
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How to make a glass fish replica - Duration: 8 minutes, 41 seconds.
Glass blowing was invented around 50 BC and revolutionised the production of glass vessels.
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In the 1200s, the glassmakers of Syria and Egypt perfected the art of enamelling and gilding on glass – a technique European craftsmen hadn’t yet learnt. Find out how they did it as Bill Gudenrath,...- CC
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The Waddesdon Bequest
The Waddesdon Bequest is a superb collection of nearly 300 objects, left to the Museum in 1898 by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. It consists of exceptionally important and beautiful medieval and Renaissance pieces, as well as a number of 19th-century fakes. Together, they paint a fascinating picture of the development of the art market in the late 19th century.-
A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest - Duration: 57 seconds.
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Playful in prayer? A miniature tabernacle - Duration: 3 minutes, 29 seconds.
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How to make a turquoise goblet - Duration: 9 minutes, 47 seconds.
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Movement and theatre: Edmund de Waal on the Deblín cup - Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds.
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How to make an Islamic beaker - Duration: 5 minutes, 54 seconds.
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Rothschild treasures: a new home for a stunning British Museum collection - Duration: 6 minutes, 28 seconds.
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Grayson Perry on the Lyte Jewel at the British Museum - Duration: 2 minutes, 47 seconds.
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Choose the British Museum’s first YouTube series!
We’re getting ready to make our first YouTube series and we need your help! There are pilot episodes for four series that we want you to watch. Tell us which one you like by giving the video (or videos) a ‘Like’. The video with the most likes by 23 Dec 2015 will have a series made from January 2016.-
You've chosen the British Museum's first YouTube series! And the winner is .... - Duration: 111 seconds.
We in the British Museum's broadcast team put a call out back in November for you, our viewers to vote for us to make our very first YouTube series.
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Deciphering the world's oldest rule book | Irving Finkel | Curator's Corner pilot - Duration: 7 minutes, 3 seconds.
Irving Finkel has possibly the coolest job in the world – he’s curator of cuneiform at the British Museum!
Since 1979 he’s been trawling the Museum’s 130,000 clay tablets for clues about life in a...- CC
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5 things you didn't know about penises - Duration: 6 minutes, 13 seconds.
Watch as British Museum staff give you the hidden history of the penis.
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Behind the scenes: from marbles to mummies - Duration: 4 minutes, 19 seconds.
Every object in the British Museum, including everything you see on display, is cared for by a dedicated team of conservators and scientists. They work alongside curators and other staff to preserv...- CC
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Love objects: Grayson Perry and the Lyte Jewel - Duration: 3 minutes, 35 seconds.
Artist Grayson Perry takes a maker’s approach to exploring the Lyte Jewel – an enamelled gold locket encrusted with diamonds. It was a gift given by James I for an illuminated ancestry proclaiming ...- CC
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Choose the British Museum’s first YouTube series! - Duration: 77 seconds.
We’re getting ready to make our first YouTube series and we need your help!
We’ve made pilot episodes for four series that we want you to watch. Tell us which one you like by giving the video (or ...- CC
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