British museums

The Courtauld Gallery……………………………………………………8
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INTRODUCTION
Since the Second World War there have been great changes in literature and the arts. These changes have much to do with the breaking down of social barriers and the improvement of education. Wider education has made young people from every social background conscious of the arts, and has awakened their interest in them. The pop revolution of the 1960s also did much to bring a new vigour to the world art, literature and music. It encouraged members of the younger generation to express their thoughts and feelings, and it hastened a break with the traditions of the past. Today, artists, musicians and writers have a much wider public than they had before the war. Far more people now read books and go to the theatre, concerts, museums and picture galleries (Musman, Adrian-Vallance, 1989, 130).
1. MUSEUMS
The major museums in London are the British Museum (the national collection of antiquities), the Victoria and Albert Museum, which houses the world’s largest display of the decorative arts, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. There are numerous other small, specialist museums in London and throughout the rest of the country, usually with an emphasis on history and British ‘heritage’. There has been a move to make museums come alive with appropriate sounds and even smells (O’Driscoll, 1997, 207; Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2002).
2. 1. 1. THE BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum in London is the United Kingdom's – and one of the world's – largest and most important museums of human history and culture. The oldest museum in the world, it was established in 1753 and was based largely on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on January 15, 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of...

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