museum review 2001 – 2002

Review 2002

Chairman’s foreword 1

Celebrating 250 years 3

Extending public participation Services for visitors 7New displays 8Special exhibitions 11Public programmes for all 14Children and families 16Lifelong learning 17Museum beyond walls 17Distinguished visitors 19

Advancing research Presenting new research 23and understanding Virtual mummy 24

Chinese paintings 24Preserving our common heritage 25Collaboration in display 26Publishing findings 28International exchange 29Partnership in acquisition 30Sharing skills 33Excavation and fieldwork 34Representation and appointments 35

Improving effectiveness Government funding 37and income Essential support 38

Operational success 38The Museum deficit 39

Appendices 1 Donors, Patrons and Friends ofThe British Museum 402 The British Museum 423 The Public programme 444 New publications 455 Excavation and fieldwork 466 Representation 477 Outstanding acquisitions 48

The Museum exists to illuminate for present and futuregenerations throughout the world the histories of cultures by preserving, presenting, researching and enhancing theunique collections in its care

Abbreviations

BM The British Museum

BMCo The British MuseumCompany Ltd

BMDT The British MuseumDevelopment Trust

BMF The British Museum Friends

BMP The British Museum Press

COMPASS Collections MultimediaPublicAccess System

DCMS Department for Culture,Media and Sport

EES Egypt Exploration Society

HLF Heritage Lottery Fund

MC Millennium Commission

NACF NationalArtCollections Fund

NHMF National HeritageMemorial Fund

UCL University College London

Official addressesPrincipal address:The British MuseumGreat Russell Street LondonWC1B 3DGe-mail: [email protected] site: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

The British Museum Company Limited46 Bloomsbury Street LondonWC1B 3QQe-mail: [email protected] site: www.thebritishmuseum.co.uk

The British Museum Development Trust 91 Great Russell Street LondonWC1B 3PSe-mail: [email protected]

The British Museum FriendsThe British MuseumGreat Russell StreetLondonWC1B 3DGe-mail: [email protected]

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On 17 June 2002, Graham Greene stepped down as Chairman ofThe British Museum after two decades of service as Trustee.At theend of that month, Dr RobertAnderson completed his term of officeas Director.Together they have helped to secure the largest andmost important physical transformation ofThe British Museum formore than 50 years.

The dramatic roof and modern facilities of the Great Court havecreated a fine space for visitors at the heart of the Museum and anew north-south route through it.The importance of the newSainsbury Africa Galleries and the splendid exhibitions madepossible by the Joseph Hotung Great Court Exhibition Gallery aredocumented in these pages. In a year which saw tourism to Londonhit by world events, and a real need for a stronger flow of publicfunding, these pages tell also of an expanded education and publicprogramme enjoyed by almost 5 million people and a strongcontinuing programme of archaeological discovery and majoracquisitions. I pay warm tribute to the energy and expertise of thestaff ofThe British Museum at all levels and to the vision andgenerosity of our sponsors and supporters.

In the coming year, we welcome Neil MacGregor as our newDirector and prepare for the 250th anniversary of the establishmentofThe British Museum by Act of Parliament in 1753 as the firstnational, public and secular museum in the world.There is much yetto do but much to celebrate.The year will culminate in the openingof the exhibition Enlightenment:Discovering theWorld in theEighteenth Century in the refurbished King’s Library, and in theWellcomeTrust Gallery display covering world cultures.Togetherwith the planned Festival of Festivals and a series of otherexhibitions and events, this programme makes clear, I hope, thedetermination ofThe British Museum in two respects – to takeforward energetically its contribution to British life and strengtheneven further its pivotal role as a museum of and for the world, nowand in the next 250 years.

ForewordSir John BoydChairman of theBoard ofTrustees

The Museum’soriginal home,Montagu House,included the naturalhistory collections,which weretransferred to SouthKensington to createthe Natural HistoryMuseum in the1880s

In 1823 work startedon the first phase ofRobert Smirke’sgreat neo-classicalbuilding.The newfront hall wascompleted in 1847and restored in 2000

Helmet from Anglo-Saxon burial moundat Sutton-Hoo,Suffolk,one of thegreat archaeologicaltreasures fromBritain in theMuseum

Celebrating250 yearsThe British Museum has thedistinction of being the firstnational, public and secularmuseum in the world. In 2003the Museum will celebratethe 250th anniversary ofits establishment by Actof Parliament


The opening of theGreat Court inDecember 2000made possibleSmirke’s originalconcept of publicaccess to a centralcourtyard in theMuseum

Purchased fromLord Elgin in 1816with funds provided byParliament, followingan enquiry by a Houseof Commons SelectCommittee

The King’s Library,built to houseGeorge III’scollection of books,was completed in1827,and itsrestoration will bethe culmination ofthe Museum’s 2003celebrations

The gold mask ofTutankhamun wasthe centrepiece of aloan exhibition in1972 – one of themost prestigious andsuccessful in theMuseum’s history

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The inner quadrangleof the Museumc.1852 before theconstruction of theround Reading Room

The Museum’s majorcollection of Dürersis based on an albumwhich formed partof the foundingbequest by Sir HansSloane (1660–1753)

The new SainsburyAfrica Galleries arepart of a programmefor returning theethnographicalcollections toBloomsbury after anabsence of 30 years

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Following thedeparture of theBritish Library toSt Pancras in 1998,the Reading Room(completed in1857) became aninformation centrewith the HamlynLibrary and on-lineresources



Services for visitorsThe British Museum received4.81 million visitors in 2001–2, a 4% riseon the previous year.This included thehighest number of exhibition visitors –245,000 – for several years and morethan 200,000 on-site learners.

An estimated 1 million people areexpected to visit Eternal Egypt andother British Museum travellingexhibitions in Britain, the USA, Italy andJapan.The museum’s web-site doubledin size and visitor numbers increasedahead of target to reach 4.2 millionstaying over 10 minutes.

Developments in visitor servicesincluded the extension of resourcesavailable in the Reading Room, a new on-site and on-line ticketing system,and an increase in the number ofhandling sessions provided by 30 trainedvolunteers fromThe British MuseumFriends. In the course of the year, some50,000 visitors in the HSBC MoneyGallery had the opportunity to

Extending publicparticipationFollowing the opening of theGreat Court in 2000, the priorityhas been to develop services for visitors and to improvethe presentation of thecollections in galleries inreadiness for the Museum’s250th anniversary in 2003

The Great Courtreceived a CivicTrustaward in recognitionof its status as a newcultural squarefor London


experience at first-hand the range ofcurrency used for trade and prestige inthe past, and children in Great OrmondStreet Hospital had a specialopportunity to learn about forgeriesand make their own banknotes.

The programme is to be expandedto the Roman Britain and the Greekand Roman galleries, complementingfurther the daily programme ofeyeOpener gallery tours by volunteers,who, this year, celebrated their10th anniversary.

The British Museum was presentedwith the ‘Attraction of theYear’awardby Dr Kim Howells MP, Minister forTourism, Film and Broadcasting, atthe British IncomingTour OperatorsAssociation (BITOA) annualconference.The Great Court receiveda CivicTrust award for architecturalachievement, and exhibitiondesign was singled out for twocommendations in the DesignWeek awards.

Opposite,TheMold Gold Cape,1900–1600 bc,is the centrepieceof the new displayPrehistory – Objectsof Power

Below,Wooden modelof a boat and crew,from an unknowntomb,MiddleKingdom 1900 bc,on display inUnderstandingEgyptian Culture

Eternal Egypt openedat the BrooklynMuseum inNovember 2001 aspart of a major tourof the USA

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The reaccreditation of the BuildingManagement Department for Investorsin People status noted in particularits commitment to customer service.The Museum held its first OpenMeeting for the public and became afounder member of the BloomsburyPartnership, which aims to improvethe local area. In the coming year,the Museum will work as a key partnerin the delivery of the CamdenCultural Strategy.

New displaysPrehistory – Objects of Power is a newdisplay exploring 2 million years ofhuman development.The display wascurated for the Department ofPrehistory and Early Europe by DrStuart Needham, and, amongst some200 objects, the highlight is theexquisite workmanship of the MoldGold Cape (1900–1600 bc), which hasbeen painstakingly conserved by IanMacIntyre, Senior Metals Conservator.

Key Performance Measures01–02 00–01 99–00

Number of visitors 4.8m 4.6m 4.4m

Number of web-site visits 4.5m 3.9m 1.7m

% of visitors very satisfied 75% 71% 59%

% of display collection internet accessible 8% 7% 6%

Number of on-site learners 245k 238k 287k

Number of outreach learners 3.3m 2.7m n/a

% of collection stored in correct environment 71% 70% 68%

% of collection documented electronically 31% 28% 28%

Number of major gallery and exhibition sponsorships 4 4 n/a

Number of visitors to the BM’s international exhibitions 563k 748k n/a

Grant-in-aid per actual and virtual visitor £3.60 £3.76 £5.67

Investigatingthe past – dailyobject-handlingsessions in selectedgalleries with BritishMuseum volunteers


The gallery is located in a prominentposition at the top of the Museum’smain staircase and provides anintroduction to the early history of manand a context for the adjacent gallerieson British and European history. In thecoming year, these will incorporate anew setting for theAnglo-Saxontreasures from Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.

A new interim display onUnderstanding Egyptian Culture,curated by Dr Richard Parkinson for theDepartment ofAncient Egypt andSudan, provides a contextualisingintroduction to the Egyptiancollections focusing on sources for theday-to-day reality of life in ancientEgypt.The display broadens the rangeof material on public view as part of theMuseum programme of gallerydevelopment.

The themes include hieroglyphs andthe written record (which teachesvisitors to read a few words inhieroglyphs) and domestic artefacts

such as furniture and jewellery.The gallery also presents recentresearch including fieldwork andnew acquisitions.

Further developments this yearincluded the resetting of importantmaterial from Nimrud in theAssyrianTransept and the first use of the formerNorth Library for a series of temporaryexhibitions in advance of its fit-out astheWellcomeTrust Gallery.A GalleryAvailability Plan was introduced toensure that visitors had clear advancenotice of the opening pattern of theMuseum’s dozens of galleries.

In the coming year, the Museum willalso complete the restoration of theKing’s Library which was built from1823–7 to house the books of KingGeorge III.This will be followed by theopening of the exhibitionEnlightenment:Discovering theWorld inthe 18th Century as the culmination ofthe Museum’s 250th anniversarycelebrations.

Head of (?) Caesarion,recently raised fromAlexandria harbour,and presentedto public view inCleopatra:fromHistory to Myth

Ring shown in theexhibition Treasuryof theWorld:theJewelled Arts of Indiain the Age of theMughals


Special exhibitionsSpecial exhibitions and temporarydisplays provide the means of bringingnew discoveries and research intothe public domain, revealing areasof the collections which cannot beon permanent display and extendinginternational collaborationand understanding.

The major exhibitions this yearattracted some 350,000 peopleincluding more than 165,000 forCleopatra:from History to Myth at TheBritish Museum and a further 500,000at venues in Rome and Chicago.Theresearch underpinning the exhibitionled to the identification of statues,previously unattributed, of the greatQueen of Egypt. In London, in additionto the many pieces in the touringexhibition, the display included newarchaeological finds fromAlexandriaharbour, and also two importantsculptures from Cherchel,Algeria.TheMuseum’s 25th Classical Colloquium,

Cleopatra Reassessed brought togetherscholars working in both the ancientEgyptian and classical worlds, and willbe published later this year.

Treasury of theWorld:the JewelledArts of India in theAge of the Mughalspresented 300 pieces of Indianjewellery of the mid-16th to early18thcenturies from the extraordinary al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait NationalMuseum, and also included the loan ofa famous inscribed ‘balas ruby’ fromthe collection of HMThe Queen.Theexhibition was accompanied by anextensive education programmefeaturing a wedding canopy displayedin the Great Court and a specialCamden Community Day for membersof local SouthAsian communities.

Both UnknownAmazon:Culture inNature inAncient Brazil and Shinto:theSacredArts ofAncient Japan displayedpieces never before seen by the publicoutside their countries of origin andresulted from far-reaching partnerships

between national institutions.UnknownAmazon was the culminationof an ambitious project led by Dr ColinMcEwan of the Department ofEthnography with Brazilian co-curatorsDrs Cristiana Barreto and EduardoNeves and in collaboration withBrasilConnects. Over 200 objects fromBrazilian and European collections,including imposing polychromefunerary urns, stone amulets,featherwork, trophy heads, war clubsand shaman’s stools, were broughttogether for the first time tocommemorate the 500th anniversaryof European contact with Brazil.

Shinto:the SacredArts ofAncient Japan was the result ofthe longstanding collaborationbetweenVictor Harris, Keeper ofJapaneseAntiquities, theAgencyfor CulturalAffairs,Tokyo, andthe Japan Foundation.

Shinto (the way of the gods) is theancient religion of Japan, predating the

Shinto:the SacredArts of Ancient Japanbrought objectsnever before seenoutside Japan toLondon as part of theJapan 2001 festival

‘Hercule Poirot’,fictional detective,in an Orient Expresscoach,brought tothe Museum for theexhibition AgathaChristie and Archaeology©The Press Association

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arrival of Buddhism in the 6th century.The exhibition provided a rareopportunity to see art and objects fromleading shrines, temples and museumsthroughout Japan including potteryfrom the prehistoric Jomon period,and wooden sculptures, paintings,swords and treasures from themedieval period.

Agatha Christie andArchaeology:Mystery in Mesopotamia explored theparticular connections between thefamous crime writer and the ancientNear East.Agatha Christie was marriedto the distinguished archaeologist andBritish MuseumTrustee, Max Mallowan,and she learned many of herinvestigative techniques on the greatMesopotamian sites including Ur andNimrud. She travelled with her husbandon the Orient Express train and toaccompany the exhibition visitors hadthe opportunity to explore a 1928carriage on the Museum forecourt,thanks toVenice Simplon-Orient-

Express Ltd, as well as enjoy films ofsome ofAgatha Christie’s books.

The exhibition, which was openedby Baroness (P D) James, was the fifthand final exhibition to be presented inassociation withTheTimes as part of ayear-long partnership.The opening wasattended by Rosalind Hicks,AgathaChristie’s daughter, and the exhibitioncoincided with the publication ofThe Life of Max Mallowan by CuratorHenrietta McCall.

Through such exhibitions as 100Views of Mount Fuji – including Thirty-six Views of Fuji by Hokusai – andShinto:the SacredArts ofAncient Japan,the Museum provided importantelements in the Japan 2001 festival.

In addition, Souvenirs inContemporary Japan, the last in theBP Ethnography Showcase series,demonstrated the living traditionsof Japanese culture.The exhibitionconsidered tourism undertaken by theJapanese in their own country, offering

an interpretation which connectedcontemporary tourism with moreancient traditions of pilgrimage.Featuring amulets, plastic food,postcards and photographs, the displayencouraged visitors to reflect on theirown traditions of tourism.

The festival float or nebuta, whichwas unveiled by the Mayors of bothAomori City and Camden, spanned20 metres and was illuminated by 800lamps.The wood and paper structure,specially designed as a gift toTheBritish Museum, told of the legendary12th-century warrior Minamoto noYoshitsune who survived an attack byhis brother and fled on horseback.Thenebuta was carefully dismantled byartist Takashi Kitamura to allow it tobe used in the 2002 Thames festival.

A total of 15 special displays thisyear covered everything from ImagingUlysses:Richard Hamilton’s Illustrationsto James Joyce; Chinese figure painting;watercolours by John Sell Cotman; Arts

Opposite,Visitorswere able to watchthe construction ofa giant nebuta floatas it took shape over4 weeks

HenryVII Englishgold 20 shilling coin,the first ‘pound coin’,displayed in theexhibition Brief Lives:Changing Currenciesin Europe

Croyland Abbey byJohn Sell Cotman,1807,from theexhibition of hiswatercolours

‘One never really needsan excuse to visitThe British Museum’TheTimes

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Left, The Sea at Sattain Suruga ProvincebyUtagawa Hiroshigefrom the exhibition100 Views ofMount Fuji

of Japan; recent acquisitions of workson paper and New Ways of Gravure:the Prints of SW Hayter (1901–1988);contemporary Chinese calligraphy;to Brief Lives:the Changing Currenciesof Europe. All were accompaniedby complementary public andeducational events.

In the coming year majorexhibitions will include: the work ofDürer; Japanese decorative arts; coinsfromAfghanistan; as well as the Queenof Sheba:Treasures fromAncient Yemen,supported by Barclays.

Public programmes for allThe British Museum collections spanevery continent and the publicprogramme is designed to reflect thatdiversity and to encourage the widestpossible range of people to experienceand enjoy different cultures.

The Sainsbury Africa Galleries(opened March 2001) provided a newcontext for the annual celebration of

Black History Month which, this year,incorporated performances by HeritageCeramics together with films, readingsand special lectures.

Some 3,000 budding artists wereencouraged to explore and extend theirown talents in the Big Draw, held inconjunction with the Campaign forDrawing.The museum-wide eventfeatured celebrities and leading artistsincluding Quentin Blake andTomPhillips.The event plays a key part infuture programming alongside otherlarge-scale events such as NationalArchaeology Day, when the enactmentgroup Legio IIAugusta gives publicdemonstrations of the life and skillsof Roman legions.

The installation Exploring the City:The Foster Studio placed the creation ofthe Great Court in the context of thework of the distinguished architecttogether with realised and unrealisedideas for the development of London.The exhibition formed part of

ArchitectureWeek which also includeda film season and continued throughthe Open HouseWeekend for whichthe Museum opened its privatemeeting spaces.

The exhibition Brief Lives:ChangingCurrencies in Europe, sponsored byPublicis, the communications groupthat launched the Euro, gave Britishvisitors their first sight of the newEuropean currency.The exhibition waslinked to a conference with theInstitute of Historical Research and thepopular event Money Week duringwhich visitors had the chance to minttheir own coin.

The conference From MaterialThings:Art andArtefact in the 21stCentury, organised in conjunction withtheArts Council of England, looked atcontemporary art in museums, with akeynote address fromVivienneWestwood. It was accompanied by aninstallation entitled Knitwork by artistGermaine Koh which comprised a work

Legio II marching aspart of NationalArchaeology Day –a popular large-scaleevent

Exploring the City:The Foster Studio wasdescribed as the‘best architecturalexhibition ever’byTime Out

Quentin Blake wasone of many artiststaking inspirationfrom the Museum’scollections in theBig Draw weekend

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80 metres long generated byunravelling and reknitting the woolof castoff garments.

The relationship between theMuseum and contemporary artists willbe expanded further in the coming yearwith the installation ofAnthonyGormley’s Field for the British Isles inthe Joseph Hotung Great CourtExhibition Gallery.

One day Discover tours and Diningwith… evenings are designed to allowinterested visitors to explore behind-the-scenes in small groups withcurators to complement the extensiveprogramme of lectures, talks, specialviews and workshops provided tomembers by The British MuseumFriends.

The exhibition Queen of Shebasupported by Barclays as part of theirInvest and Inspire campaign willinclude aYemeni spice market, story-telling, study-days, a day for Barclaysstaff and families and a forecourt

concert (with the PhilharmoniaOrchestra and Royal NationalTheatre)for the Summer of 2002.

In 2003, the Museum will celebrateits 18th-century origins and thediversity of cultures represented withinit with a Festival of Festivals includingEid, Chinese New Year, and JapaneseBoys’Day, and will also work as a keypartner in the delivery of the CamdenCultural Strategy.

Children and familiesThe latest addition to the Museum’sextensive web-site is children’scompass, an object-based, speciallydesigned resource which encourageschildren to search the Museum’scollections thematically on-line andto curate their own tours and displays.

A new family audio tour narratedby Stephen Fry aims to introduce keyobjects in the Museum’s collections.Telling the story of ‘Ginger’ (theMuseum’s lion) and explaining

the decoding of ancient scripts throughthe Rosetta Stone, the audio tour isjust one ingredient in the expandedFamilies programme.

Stories on a Summer Sunday usedoral tradition to explore a wide rangeof myths during the summer holidays.The regular programme of sleepoversfor theYoung Friends ofThe BritishMuseum continued in galleriesof ancient Egypt and Britain.The week-long Unwrapping Science eventsattracted adults and children aliketo look in depth at the scientific workdone at the Museum.

A greatly-expanded programmefor schools received almost 200,000children in booked groups and therange of resources available wasextended with the introduction of thenew children’s encyclopaedias fromThe British Museum Press. In thecoming year, the Museum plans tocomplete the Ancient Civilizationsseries of web-sites to support learning

Children’s compass,made possible by theFord Motor CompanyFund,offers high-quality design andcontent

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Children fromThurlow Park SpecialSchool enjoying theParthenon friezetouch-wall – a castof the frieze atwheelchair height,also useful forvisitors with visualimpairments


by 7–11 year-olds at Key Stage 2 of thenational curriculum with ancientChina and ancient India, producedwith support from NTT (East).

Innovations have included the firstsecondary schools events for manyyears linked to the medievalcollections, which featured a knight inarmour, handling sessions and lecturesby curators and outside experts – anencouraging sign of increased visitsto the Museum by older pupils.Theimminent renovation of the EarlyMedieval gallery will also assist inpromoting theAnglo-Saxon andViking collections to primary schools.

Lifelong learningWith seven new evening coursescovering everything from ArabicCalligraphy to Excavating the Bible,19 study days and rich programmesfor bothAdult Learner’s Week andWomen’sWeek, the Lifelong-learningprogramme is designed to extend and

enrich both regular and new visitors.This year an exciting mix of popular

and specialist films was introduced toprovide a festival content fortemporary exhibitions and to widenparticipation, whilst the popularDestinations series of one-day seminarsenables people planning holidays tofind out about the history and heritageof historic cities and regions beforetravelling.

A new programme of introductorysessions to encourage the developmentof learning skills uses the HamlynLibrary, available free to all in theReading Room.The refurbishedArchedRoom provides facilities for studyingthe 25,000 cuneiform tablets whichonce comprised the historic royallibrary ofAshurbanipal at Nineveh.

The British Museum Diploma inAsianArt, a postgraduate coursevalidated by Royal Holloway College ofthe University of London, was launchedinApril 2001. In addition, the Museum

became a content partner in the on-line learning consortium Fathom.comwhich provides a range of articles,seminars and on-line courses producedby the partner organisations includingthe London School of Economics andPolitical Science, the British Library,Columbia University andTheSmithsonian Institution, USA.Thematiccontent allows visitors to exploresubjects across different disciplines.

Museum beyond wallsIn 2001–2,The British Museum loanedobjects to more than 50 venues acrossthe UK and launched Partnership UK –a programme to extend relationshipswith museums across the countrythrough collaborative exhibitions,loans and skills-sharing initiatives.The programme began with the tourof Burma:theArt of Lacquer to Exeter,Bath and Sunderland.

The exhibition The UnidentifiedMuseum Object was the latest in a

Almost 200,000schoolchildrenvisited in bookedgroups last year

Above,Children atGreat Ormond Streethospital looking atcoins and medalswith John Orna-Ornstein fromthe Museum

Right, ‘The BritishMuseum Goes toTown’– outreachproject at BrentCross shoppingcentre,north London

Access stands at theheart of the Museum’smission


series of exhibitions produced with theHenry Moore Foundation in Leeds. Itbrought together a show of curiositiesthat have resisted precise classification,including such items as a rock-crystalskull and a prosthetic toe.The majorexhibition Egypt Revealed:Life andDeath in Ancient Egypt attracted some50,000 visitors at Birmingham CityMuseum and Art Gallery.Visitors toSouth Shields’Roman fort were able tosee a legionary’s shield on loan as partof the Shipwrecked exhibition; just oneof the items in the ongoing programmeof loans up and down the country,made by the Museum or through itscollaboration in the National TouringExhibitions programme.

In March 2002, the National Trust’snew visitor centre at Sutton Hoo inSuffolk featured the newly-conservedsword and shield normally on display atThe British Museum – the first time theobjects have been loaned.Work alsocontinued on the preparation of the

major loan for the creation of themoney gallery at Manchester Museum,due to open in September 2002.

An imaginative web-partnershipwith Derby Museum and Art Galleryand Creswell Heritage Trust, to coincidewith the opening of a new visitorcentre, has enabled the virtualreunification of this heritage landscapewith the delicate and immenselyimportant evidence of early humanart preserved in The British Museum.A beauty spot in Nottinghamshire atthe heart of what was one of Britain’smajor coalfields, Creswell Cragspreserves the only cluster of Ice Agecave sites in the UK. Between 70,000and 10,000 years ago, the caves andfissures provided shelter forNeanderthal people in a hostileenvironment.An early representationof the human form on bone is amongstthe artefacts which provide evidence oftheir life as hunters.The site can bevisited at www.creswell-crags.org.uk.

In the coming year, the Museum willbe leading a collaborative project todevelop a virtual Timeline of History,allowing visitors to explore betweencultures and through time with accessto objects from the partner museumsof Exeter, Chester, and Norwich.

In visiting Brent Cross shoppingcentre, undertaking object-handlingwith children in Great Ormond Streethospital, participating in theBloomsbury Partnership and workingwith homeless people through theSMart programme, the Museumseeks to make a difference to thelives of individuals in the community.The regular cultural events, suchas the Eid Party and Chinese NewYear, encourage everyone tocelebrate diversity.

Distinguished visitorsAs a national institution and universalmuseum,The British Museumcontributes to international

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Homeless artistsworking in the Printsand Drawings StudyRoom – part of theSMart programmefor disadvantagedpeople in thecommunity

Visitors in theInformation Centreusing the free on-line resourceswhich give moreinformation aboutthe collections

Handling MingCeramics (opposite)and an African textileworkshop (right) arepart of the Museum’sextensive educationprogrammes whichallow visitors tostudy the riches ofthe collections withexperts in the field


understanding through collaborativework and diplomatic visits. In this latterrespect, the last year was particularlynoteworthy.

The President of the United States,GeorgeW Bush, made his first visit toBritain in July 2001. In support of MrsLaura Bush’s commitment to literacyprogrammes, the President joined herfor a story-telling session in theReading Room with children fromHackney.Archives of the Museum weredisplayed including the signatures ofMarx, Lenin and MarkTwain. Items fromthe coin cabinet of King George III wereshown, as were 16th-century drawingsof nativeAmericans by JohnWhite, andpieces from theWater Newton hoardwhich includes the first-knownChristian silver (4th century).

Among a number of distinguishedChinese visitors was HE Mr Hu Jintao,Vice-President of the People’s Republicof China. HMThe Queen of Malaysiavisited the Cleopatra exhibition as did

HRHThe Duke ofYorkand RichardWoff,Deputy Head ofEducation, lookingat work onthe Queens’Trail,launched to celebratethe Queen’s GoldenJubilee

Baroness Blackstone,Minister for theArts,with the Director,Dr RobertAnderson,examining an itemfrom theWinchesterhoard which was 1 of397 Treasure casesworked on at theMuseum duringthe year

President GeorgeWBush and Mrs LauraBush withAntonyGriffiths,Keeper ofPrints and Drawings,in the Reading Roomduring their visit tothe Museum

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Almost 12 millionpeople visitedThe British Museumon-site,on-line or atan exhibition on-tour

Margaret for her commitment to ouractivities over many years.

Mrs Mary Robinson, UNCommissioner for Human Rights,delivered the BPAnnual Lecture onCivilization in November 2001 entitledHuman Rights and Global Civilization.

The Rt Rev and Rt Hon RichardChartres, Bishop of London, officiatedat the opening of Shinto:SacredArtsofAncient Japan. Ken Livingstone, Mayorof London, opened the exhibitionExploring the City:the Foster Studio andhosted the Greater LondonAuthority’sLondon party in the Great Court.

Serving British Ministers who madevisits included the Rt Hon BaronessBlackstone, Minister for theArts, andBaroness Ashton and John Healey MP,Parliamentary Under Secretaries fromthe Department for Education and Skills.The Museum also welcomed membersof the Parliamentary All Party Arts andHeritage Committee and theAll PartyArchaeology Group.

HRHThe Duke of Kent. His ImperialHighness Crown Prince Naruhito ofJapan toured the exhibition 100 Viewsof Mount Fuji, which was opened by theRt Hon Chris Smith, then Secretary ofState for Culture, Media and Sport.HRH Princess Maha Chakri SirindhornofThailand also visited. HRH PrincessAdellah al Saud and HRH Princess HaifaBint Mansour saught advice on aspectsof running a national museum.

HRHThe Duke ofYork, President oftheAssociation for LeadingVisitorAttractions, inaugurated the Museum’sQueens’Trail designed to support theGolden Jubilee celebrations of HMThe Queen. HRH Princess Alexandraconducted the formal opening ofUnknownAmazon:Culture in NatureinAncient Brazil, and HRH PrincessMargaret, Honorary President ofTheBritish Museum Development Trust,made a private tour of the Great Courtthree months prior to her death.TheMuseum records its thanks to Princess


Presenting new researchIn March 2001 a grave at Wetwangin East Yorkshire was discoveredaccidentally. It contained an IronAgechariot which was then excavated ina partnership betweenThe BritishMuseum, as lead excavator, andEnglish Heritage.

A three-dimensional computermodel of the grave was created by theMuseum illustrators; the chariot wasthen reconstructed by the BBC as partof their Meet theAncestors programmeand subsequently displayed in theGreat Court.The Evening Standardarranged for the chariot to be driventhrough London’s rush-hour trafficand the Museum created a virtualtour for web-visitors.

In these ways an important advancein our understanding of the ancientBritish chariot – used centuries beforeQueen Boudicca – was made andshared with millions of televisionviewers and British Museum visitors.

Advancing researchand understandingThe British Museum collectionsspan every continent acrossthe history of human culture.Through fieldwork, excavation,conservation, research andinternational exchange, staffwork to preserve our commonheritage for the future andbring new discoveries intothe public domain

Opposite, JulianRichards and filmcrew from BBCTV’sMeet the Ancestorsat the excavation ofthe IronAge chariotat Wetwang,EastYorkshire

Above,The replicaWetwang chariotarriving at TheBritish Museum


In the coming year the chariot willbe loaned to the National Museum andGallery ofWales in Cardiff and theNational Museums of Scotland.

Virtual mummyNesperennub was a priest in the templeof Karnac around 800 bc.This much hasbeen known from inscriptions since1899, when his beautiful paintedmummy case entered the collections.Without damaging this preciousartefact, however, it has beenimpossible to know what lies inside.

Now, advances in 3-D computergraphics technology have producedstartlingly clear pictures of thecontents of the case. Using some 1,800cat-scan images, taken by the NationalHospital for Neurology andNeurosurgery, technicians at SiliconGraphics Inc have created a volumetricrendering of the mummy, which hasmade it possible to take a virtual tourthrough the body. Bone, soft tissue and

linen wrappings can all be visualisedinteractively in 3-D.Trappings andamulets of leather and metal can beclearly seen, and the images also revealthat a pottery bowl lies over the top ofthe priest’s skull – a unique feature,perhaps left there inadvertently bythe embalmers.

These discoveries generated world-wide interest including a major featureon BBCTV’s Tomorrow’s World, andthere are now plans to create a ‘VirtualMummy’experience for visitors toThe British Museum.

Chinese paintingsThe first public presentation for manyyears of the delicate AdmonitionsScroll of Gu Kaizhi was made this yearin the context of other Chinesepaintings on the theme Emperors andCourt Ladies.

This handscroll is the mostimportant object in the Museum’sChinese collection. It is likely to be the

earliest example from China of a scrollpainting of any kind, dating probablyto no later than the 7th century ad.The display coincided with a majorsymposium, held in conjunction withthe Percival David Foundation of theUniversity of London – a gatheringattended by a galaxy of Chinese-paintings scholars from aroundthe world. High-quality images ofthe scroll are now available on theMuseum web-site.

The digitisation of the Steincollection of Chinese paintings wasadvanced with the support of theMellon Foundation as part of aninternational project which willprovide an on-line reference libraryto be completed in the coming year.

In all of these ways,The BritishMuseum is extending access to behind-the-scenes work. In the coming year,development plans to realise furthereffective and visible storage as well asnew homes in Bloomsbury for the staff

Digital images of theAdmonitions Scrollof Gu Kaizhi willensure public accessand preserve thedelicate original

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Gold necklace torcfrom theWinchesterhoard,one of themost importantTreasure finds inrecent years,acquired for thenation with publicand private funds

New advances inmedical and 3-Dimaging haverevealed themysteries of a2,800 year-oldEgyptian mummy

in the Departments of Prehistory andEarly Europe, and Ethnography, will beadvanced following the cancellation ofthe Museum’s Study Centre project andthe resultant sale of the former PostOffice building on New Oxford Street.

Preserving our common heritageThe Heritage Lottery Fund has agreedfunding for three years (2003–6) for anexpansion of the PortableAntiquitiesScheme for England andWales.This willprovide a national network of 37locally-based finds liaison officers, fourfinds specialists (one based at theMuseum), plus a central support teamof five, including a co-ordinator andoutreach officer based at the Museum,under Dr Roger Bland, Head ofTreasureand PortableAntiquities.

The announcement recognises theachievement of the pilot programmein ensuring that archaeologicaldiscoveries made by the public areproperly recorded to national

standards. Material which is declaredTreasure is identified, documented andconserved by The British Museum insupport of theTreasureAct 1996. Inthe last year, staff from the fivedepartments involved have worked on397 cases, ranging from a uniqueBronzeAge gold cup from Kent to aTudor silver dress hook from Suffolk.

The acquisition of the mostimportant IronAge finds for manyyears has been made possible by theNationalArt Collections Fund, NationalHeritage Memorial Fund andThe BritishMuseum Friends. Deposited between60 and 20 bc, theWinchester hoard,made from more than a kilogram ofgold, comprises two gold necklaces,four brooches and two bracelets.Analysis of the techniques used hascast new light on the changing culturesin Britain in the years before the Romanconquest and, working with colleaguesfromWinchester Museums Service,archaeologists now believe the hoard

was a religious offering to the gods.Partnership in discovery is one aspectof the planned exhibition Treasure:Finding Our Past, which will open at theMuseum in 2003 before travelling toCardiff, Norwich and Manchester.

The work of the Department ofScientific Research underpins much ofthe curatorial work by enhacing ourknowledge of the materials andtechnologies used to create objects,their provenance, date and pastenvironments. Complementing this incaring for the collections is the work ofthe Conservation Department.

The special display on Arts of Japanfeatured notable acquisitions, andsamurai swords, which had been newlyconserved with the support of the PeterMoores Foundation. In the coming year,the conservation of an early 14th-century hanging scroll entitledThe Bodhisattva Ksitigarbba (JizoBosatsu) will be undertaken in Japanas part of the project for the

The British Museummakes a majorcontribution topreserving andresearching ourcommon heritage

A conservatorworking on a freshly-excavatedAnglo-Saxon shield bossfrom Sutton Hoo,Suffolk,where thenew visitor centrehas opened with adisplay of objectson loan fromTheBritish Museum


Conservation of JapaneseWorksofArt in Foreign Collections.

The Conservation Department hasproduced a 40-minute videodocumenting the restoration of a six-fold Ukiyo-e Japanese screen.The work,in the specialist Hirayama Studio, wasconducted by the Hirayama Fellow,MitsuhiroAbe.Assistance for the filmwas provided by the SumitomoFoundation Japan,The British MuseumFriends andTownley Group.

A significant loan of recentlyconserved material from the burialmounds at Sutton Hoo was made tothe NationalTrust for presentation asthe first temporary exhibition in theirnew visitor centre at the site.Theconservation process has beenrecorded with a view to producinga further film in this series.

Collaboration in displayMany exhibitions are the result oflongstanding international

collaboration with indigenouscommunities and with scholars inother institutions.This year wasnotable for the range and richnessof such work.

New discoveries show that theAmazon basin was far from unpeopledbut home to an affluent andsophisticated society of perhaps6 million people which developed from8000 bc until western settlement in the16th century. Portuguese settlersreported bustling, shimmering townsstretching along the river, untilEuropean diseases, the slave trade andconflict wiped them out and the jungleengulfed the ancient ruins. Recentarchaeological excavations havechallenged previous views of theadvanced mountain Inca peoplespawning lowland peasant settlementand suggest that rather the reversemay be true, with the trade corridors ofthe river spreading culture and wealth.

The exhibition UnknownAmazon:

Culture in Nature inAncient Brazil wasproduced by ethno-archaeologistDr Colin McEwan, with Braziliancolleagues Drs Cristiana Barreto andEduardo Neves, and revealed asophisticated shamanic society, inwhich the bones of ancestors wererevered and placed in humanoid burialurns.The acclaimed design by At Largeused video and sound to bring to lifethe sense of a river-based culturewhich has been lost.

Jonathan King from theDepartment of Ethnographyrepresented the Museum at theopening of Akaitapiiwa:Ancestorsexhibition at the Sir Alexander GaltMuseum, Lethbridge,Alberta.This was acollaborative project devised to displaythe Deane Freeman collection ofartefacts from the Kainai or Blooddivision of the Blackfoot Confederacy.The collection was lent by bothTheBritish Museum and the Royal OntarioMuseum and was curated with the

Crystal skull,probably 19th-century European,lent as part of theexhibition TheUnidentifiedMuseum Object inLeeds in partnershipwith the HenryMoore Foundation

Louis Soop,Elderfrom the Kainai(or Blood) Nationof the BlackfootConfederacy, inFancy Dancecostume at theopening of theAncestors exhibitionat the Sir AlexanderGalt Museum,Lethbridge Canada

Opposite,Potteryfunerary urn fromthe exhibitionUnknown Amazon,the result of anexceptionalcollaboration withBrazilian colleagues.© Museu Barbier-Müller Art Precolumbí,Barcelona

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An internationalconference at theMuseum was shownrecently excavatedmaterial fromNimrud, Iraq,suchas this crown from9th–8th centuries bc.Reproduced bypermission of theState Organisationof Antiquities andHeritage,Baghdad

The Encyclopaedia ofAncient Greece is oneof the best-sellingtitles for children

Kainai Nation and Louis Soop fromthe Red Crow Community College.The exhibition has provided thedescendants of the originatingcommunity access to their historicmaterial – from 90 named individuals –as well as a significant role in itsinterpretation.

The SculptedWord looked at the artof carving or engraving in words andpictograms.The exhibition, with theHenry Moore Foundation in Leeds, tooka series of objects fromThe BritishMuseum and displayed them outsideof the usual chronological and culturalcontexts, in order to provide a newvisual and thematic perspective.Thepartnership’s desire to exhibit in Leedsreflects the inspiration that HenryMoore acknowledged he found inThe British Museum.The associationcontinued with the exhibition TheUnidentified Museum Object, andnext year will look at Masks fromThe British Museum.

Publishing findingsThe British Museum remains one ofthe largest museum publishers in theworld, bringing to the public theexpertise and findings of its curators.

The British Museum Press published58 books this year covering all age rangesand interest levels from TheArcticVoyages of Martin Frobisher toEmbroidery in India and Pakistan.The children’s encyclopaedias of theancient world support schools andfamily learning whilst the best-sellingDangerous Tastes – the Story of Spicesencourages people to experiment withthe recipes and ingredients of differenteras and parts of the world.

Substantial catalogues accompaniedall of the major exhibitions.Thecatalogue to the Cleopatra exhibitionedited by Dr SusanWalker provided amajor feature on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’sHour which explored the history andmyth of the fabled seductress and ruler.Ming Ceramics inThe British Museum by

Jessica Harrison-Hall analysed in detailalmost 1,000 items in the collection ina 640-page volume.

In addition, the Museum publishesa series of Occasional Papers to bringinto the public domain ongoingresearch and specialist debates.Thisyear’s list included the publication ofCleaning and Controversy:TheParthenon Sculptures 1811–1939 byDr Ian Jenkins, which presented theMuseum’s contribution to the previousconference on the subject.All the otherpapers from the conference arepublished on the Museum’s web-site.

Another conference, Enlighteningthe British, was held in 2002 with 250delegates.Twenty-two speakerscovered science, archaeology and thevisual arts, the relationship betweenthe genesis of anthropology and tradeand empire, state collecting andlearned societies, and museums andlibraries.The papers will be published aspart of the 250th anniversary

Publication andconferencescontribute tointernationalunderstanding andscholarly exchange


Gold fibula witha Celtic warrior.Hellenistic,probablymade in the 3rdcentury bc by aGreek jeweller for aCeltic client on theSpanish peninsula.Purchased withpublic andprivate funds

Victor Harris,Keeper of JapaneseAntiquities,withone of the samuraiswords that wasconserved this year

celebrations, as will a history ofTheBritish Museum by former director,Sir DavidWilson.

Ramen Spectroscopy inArchaeologyandArt History, Astronomy andMathematics in theAncient Near East,Herods and Nabataeans and ShapingUnderstanding:Form and Order intheAnglo-SaxonWorld were amongstthe other specialist topics focusedon in 10 international symposia atthe Museum during the year,extending international dialogueand the application of inter-disciplinary knowledge.

International exchangeThe British Museum holds in trustcultural artefacts from around the worldwhich contribute to the understandingof human development but also have aspecial status for particular nations andcommunities. In developing itsprogrammes,The British Museumstrives to respect these resonances and

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international cultural exchange.The Museum’s international

conference on Nimrud welcomed sixscholars from Iraq in Spring 2002,marking a significant moment inAnglo-Iraqi cultural relations. Dr John Curtis,Keeper of the Department of theAncient Near East, subsequentlyattended the second internationalconference in Baghdad on theTower ofBabylon and the Ziggurat of Borsippa,and addressed the delegates at theopening ceremony on behalf of the40 foreign scholars present.

Following the conference, hevisited various sites and in Mosul wasshown models of the proposed newbuilding for the study ofAshurbanipal’slibrary.The 25,000 cuneiform tabletsfrom this library were discovered atancient Nineveh in the mid-19thcentury and are now inThe BritishMuseum. It is proposed to supplycasts of some of these tablets for the

new institute in Mosul under theauspices of unesco.

InThe British Museum, the originaltablets are now accessible in the newlyrefurbishedArched Room (built by SirRobert Smirke in 1839–41) which hasbeen formally opened as a StudyCentre for theAncient Near East.

The new Korea Foundation Galleryopened last year.This year, the Directorresponded to an invitation to visitNorth Korea for a second time, whereone of the purposes was to collectcontemporary arts and crafts and tocontribute an invited lecture.The NorthKorean Study Day included sevenpapers, one delivered by the BritishChargé d’Affaires in Pyongyang andanother by the Director of the NationalGallery of the DPRK, Pyongyang.

His Holiness Abuma Paulos,Patriarch of Ethiopia, withrepresentatives from the EthiopianChurch and Embassy, visited theMuseum and in particular viewed the


The purchase of the‘Jennings dog’wasmade possible withpublic funds,privatebenefactions anddonations from thegeneral public

Opposite,TheArchedRoom now opened asthe Study Centre fortheAncient NearEast with accessiblestorage of theMuseum’s collectionof cuneiform tablets

tabots – a series of models of theArkof the Covenant – and noted theappropriateness of their care.

In October 2001, the DepartmentofAncient Egypt and Sudan wasinstrumental in ensuring the return toSudan of a stolen Egyptian statue – aseated figure of the mid-15th centurybc, previously in a private collection inthe UK – after spotting that a sculptureof such importance could not havebeen exported legally.

In the coming year, Robert Knox,Keeper of OrientalAntiquities, willparticipate further in a dialogue on theCultural Rehabilitation ofAfghanistan,which began with an internationalseminar held this year at Kabul atwhich he was a delegate.

Partnership in acquisitionThe British Museum is a universalmuseum holding artefacts from everycontinent and period of time.Continued acquisition – of

contemporary artworks and materialcultures, and of significant historicalitems – aims to ensure that futuregenerations can make new voyages ofdiscovery about human cultures.Theyear has been notable for the qualityof treasure items uncovered in Britain,and for the exceptional generosity ofpartners and donors which has enabledtheir acquisition for the nation.

The gold Celtic warrior brooch fromthe 3rd century bc is a unique piece ofancient jewellery which represents themeeting of Greek artistic genius withthe warrior world of Celtic Europe.Some 14 centimetres long, it is aminiature sculpture of a naked warriorwith Celtic helmet and scabbard.The acquisition was made possibleby the Heritage Lottery Fund and theNationalArt Collections Fund.

These organisations, along withTheBritish Museum Friends and privatebenefactors also enabled the purchaseof the ‘Jennings Dog’.This Molossian

hound is one of the few examples ofHellenistic animal sculpture that wascopied in the Roman period.The doghad been acquired by HenryConstantine Jennings in the 1750s andbecame so famous in England that itsowner was known as ‘Dog-Jennings’.The challenge to raise £662,000 tokeep it in Britain became a causecélèbre in the Summer of 2001, withextensive media coverage. Membersof the public donated some £30,000towards the appeal.

The NationalArt Collections Fundalso purchased for the nation anEgyptian limestone funerary stela fromthe reign of Rameses II in the 13thcentury bc.The disposition of thefigures is unusual with the ownershown in the lower register and thedivinities,Thoth, Osiris, Isis and Horus,above.The hieroglyphic text is a prayerto the gods.

The exhibition Brushes with Surprise:theArt of Calligraphy in Modern China

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Anglo-Saxon 7th-century silver-giltfigure with asuspension loopattached to the cap,probably for useas an amulet

Engraved intaglioportrait of CapabilityBrown,Englishc.1770,set in abracelet of laterdate.Given by theMusman family,direct descendantsof Capability Brown


Above,Gu Gan, TheAge of Red and Gold,2000, calligraphy onpaper,presented bythe collectors

Opposite, Funerarystela of the Scribeof theArmy,Kenro,19th Dynasty,c.1230 bc.Presentedby the NationalArtCollections Fund

Bronze by Gold byRichard Hamilton,1987,one of a seriesof illustrations toJames Joyce’sUlysses,presented bythe artist.© RichardHamilton

presented the recent history of Chinathrough the abstracted forms ofcalligraphy.The overwhelming majorityof the pieces on display were presentedto the museum by Gordon Barrass andKristen Lippencott, thereby continuinga long tradition of enthusiasm andcollaboration by collectors and donors.

Paper Assets:Collecting Printsand Drawings 1996–2001 displayedsome 200 of the 3,000 works whichhave entered the Museum collectionover the last five years, half as the resultof bequests and gifts. Old master printsand drawings by European artists suchas Lucas Cranach and Hans Baldungand a study by Picasso for his seminalLes Demoiselles d’Avignon (1906–7)sat alongsideAntony Gormley’sdrawing for his Gateshead sculptureAngel of the North and a series ofetchings Disasters of War byJake and Dinos Chapman.

The distinguished illustratorRichard Hamilton presented the

Museum with a set of completedUlysses prints to accompany theexhibition of his illustrations of JamesJoyce’s Ulysses on the occasion of the80th anniversary of its publicationand his own 80th birthday.The recentgenerosity of the Rootstein-HopkinsFoundation will ensure that fundscontinue to be available for 20th-century British art.

Two unusual acquisitions were thegift of an entire set of Japanese moneyenvelopes (200 examples) from thewedding of Mr and Mrs Nishi on 5 May2001, and a a chair made fromamnestiedAK 47 rifles collected afterthe end of the civil war in Mozanbique.

Sharing skillsThe BP fellowship scheme takes placeon an annual basis and seeks to provideprofessional development for curatorialcolleagues from museums around theworld. Representatives this year camefrom the National Museum of

Ethnography and Folklore and the Casadel Moneda, Potosi in Bolivia, theMuseum ofAnthropology, Salta, andthe Museum of Ethnography, BuenosAires, inArgentina, and the NubianHeritage Museum in Egypt.

Members of the EducationDepartment contributed to threeBritish Council training courses formuseum staff in India and advice wasprovided to Jordan on theestablishment of a new museum.

Collaborative work continued withManchester Museum throughout theyear in preparation for the opening of anew Money Gallery in 2002, to whichthe Museum has made a substantialloan of coins.

Karen Birkhölzer, stone conservator,visited the Hull and East RidingMuseum to advise on the cleaning of14 Roman mosaics which are displayedthere.The project involved the use oflocal volunteers and practical trainingwas provided for project supervisors.

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The British MuseumFriends donated£350,000 foracquisitions


Interns are regularly taken fromoverseas and the UK to work in manyof the Museum’s departments.Thisyear, links were established to Camdenschools for work-experienceplacements, and these will bedeveloped into formal arrangements.

Excavation and fieldworkThe excavation at Sidon, in Lebanon,this year yielded 19 undisturbed MiddleBronzeAge tombs of c.1750 bc. As partof the research into the archaeology ofthe Egyptian Nile Delta, Dr JeffreySpencer excavated at Tell Belim.Thismulti-period town site is located at thesouthern edge of Lake Menzala about60 kilometres from Port Said.The entireplan of the pharaonic temple and itssurrounding enclosure was recoveredand dated,on stratigraphic grounds, tothe 7th century bc.

Ralph Jackson worked in Bolognawith local archaeological authoritiesto examine the largest-ever find of

Andrew Burnett,Keeper of Coins andMedals,with KeithSugden,of theManchesterMuseum,examiningone of severalhundred pieces beinglent to Manchesterto create the newmoney gallery

Angela Evans,expertinAnglo-Saxonantiquities,contributing to thetelevised TimeTeamexcavation onChannel 4

a beautiful find with an elaboratedecorative frieze and Greek inscription,which had initially alerted the localFinds Liaison officer to the importanceof the cemetery. During the three-daydig, the team found a series of graves,many of which were double or tripleburials, and a further three buckets aswell as weapons, jewellery and shields.

A full Peer Review ofArchaeology,led by aTrustee, Professor BarryCunliffe, examined the Museum’sresearch and excavation activities,publication and dissemination, thepresentation of archaeology inexhibitions, external relations, fundingand strategic direction.

The continuing programme ofcollection through fieldwork is a vitaldimension of the work ofThe BritishMuseum in recording material artefactsfrom living cultures.This year, theprogramme of work by the Departmentof Ethnography included textileinnovation inVanuatu; the collection

Roman medical instruments excavatedat the Domus del Chirurgo, Rimini.Drs Ian Jenkins and Peter Higgscontinued their long-term work atKnidos inTurkey, and, amongst otherfeatures, discovered the Christianphase of this Greek sanctuary in apreviously unexcavated corner ofthe site, which turned out to be a5th-century baptistery.

In Britain a short season of workwas conducted at a Lower Palaeolithicsite at Hoxne in Suffolk, and a newRoman shipwrecks project isexamining the prospects for excavatinga number of underwater sites aroundBritain’s shores.

Museum staff played a key role inChannel 4’s TimeTeam annual livetelevised excavations, which this yeartook place at an early Anglo-Saxoncemetery site in Hampshire.AngelaEvans, Curator in the Department ofMedieval and Modern Europe, wasasked to talk about a Byzantine bucket,


of kayaks and kayak clothing fromGreenland; research into silver, stoneand shell jewellery in theAmericanSouthwest and work on collectionsfrom Isla de Sacrificios in Mexico.

Representation and appointmentsSir John Boyd, Master of ChurchillCollege, Cambridge, former BritishAmbassador to Japan, and aTrustee ofThe British Museum since 1996, wasappointed Chairman of the Board. Hereplaces Graham Greene, whose termof office ends on 17 June 2002.

The out-going Director, Dr RobertAnderson, was made Commandeurde l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by theFrench Culture and CommunicationsMinister in recognition of hiscontribution to cultural life.DrAnderson joined the panelestablished by theArts andHumanities Research Board to assessfunding applications from universitymuseums in the UK and, in the face of

additional parliamentary and legalcampaigning on the ParthenonSculptures, reiterated in TheTimes theMuseum’s position on the importanceof the founding principles of the‘universal museum’. Neil MacGregor,Director of the National Gallery, wasappointed as Director ofThe BritishMuseum to take effect from1August 2002.

Professor John Mack represents TheBritish Museum as one of 11 membersof theWorking Group on HumanRemains chaired by Professor NormanPalmer and established by the Ministerfor theArts to consider the desirabilityof a statement of principles (andsupporting guidance) on the careand safekeeping of human remains,requests for their return and to preparea report for government in 2002.

Dr Andrew Burnett, Keeper of theDepartment of Coins and Medals, wasawarded theYa’akov Meshorer Prize forNumismatics by the Israel Museum,

Jerusalem.The citation referred to the‘special atmosphere that prevails inthe Museum, at once professional andsophisticated, open and warm.’

Sandra Smith became acting Keeperof Conservation upon the retirementof Dr Andrew Oddy who had held theposition since 1986.Andrew Thatcherwas appointed Managing DirectorofThe British Museum Company,following PatrickWright’s retirement.Margaret Fenn joined the Museum asHead of Membership Development,The British Museum Friends, and DawnAustwick, previously ProjectDirector ofTate Modern, willcommence as Director of Resourcesin September 2002.

Sir Claus Moser, Chairman ofTheBritish Museum Development Trust,was made Lord Moser of Regent’s Park;Sir John Browne, Chief Executive of BP,Chairman of theAudit and GovernanceCommittee of the Board ofTrustees,became Lord Browne of Madingley.

Neil MacGregor,Director of theNational Gallery,was appointedDirector ofTheBritish Museum totake effect from1August 2002

Above,Dr RobertAnderson,out-goingDirector,withGraham Greene,Chairman of theBoard ofTrustees,from 1996–2002

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Right,Sir John Boyd,Master of ChurchillCollege,Cambridge,will take over asChairman of theTrustees fromJune 2002


Government fundingThe British Museum is a Non-Departmental Public Body, directlyfunded by the British Governmentand is an exempt charity under Section2 of the Charities Act 1993.The three-year funding agreement with theDepartment for Culture, Media and Sportdetermines the level of public funding.

For the year 2001–2 the Museumreceived grant-in-aid of £36 millionand generated a further £10.8 millioncommercial and private income. Itincurred costs of £42.8 million. Undernormal circumstances, some £7 millionof income would have had to be usedto finance essential capital renewals ofproperty, plant and machinery, leavinga deficit of £3 million.This deficit wasaverted in 2001–2 by applying morestringent capital expenditure controls,making immediate costs economiesand by using proceeds from propertysales to finance capital renewals.A deficit of £5 million is projected for

Improvingeffectivenessand incomeThe year has seen a significantincrease in commercial andprivate income generated by theMuseum. Despite this, overallfunding is insufficient for theunderlying cost base and a£5 million deficit projected fortwo years time has necessitatedcost reduction measures

The Great Court hasestablished itself asa major new venuefor events in London


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The value of the grant-in-aid at£3.60 per actual and virtual visitor isone of the lowest in the sector.Theamount of grant has fallen behindthe Museum’s costs as determined byinflation and, as a result, the Museumhas become increasingly dependenton commercial income.

The Museum has maintainedits commitment to free admission andhas been pleased that this has beenextended to all national museumsand galleries. It also welcomes theimprovedVAT recovery under thenew Section 33A arrangements.

Essential supportThe British Museum DevelopmentTrust, amongst its many actrivities, hasexpanded its new Corporate Partnersand Legacy programmes.The launch ofchildren’s compass was made possibleby the Ford Motor Company Fund.

Major donations by theWolfsonFoundation and the Hon SimonSainsbury, together with support fromothers, have made refurbishment of theKing’s Library possible.The campaigncontinues this year along withfundraising for the projects associatedwith the Museum’s 250th anniversary.

The exhibition Cleopatra:fromHistory to Myth was supported by BP.Shinto, the SacredArts ofAncient Japanwas sponsored by Asahi Shimbun, andthe Museum is grateful to the al-SabahFoundation and BrasilConnects fortheir partnership in major exhibitions.

It is Trustees’policy to fund mostmajor developments and acquisitionsfrom donations and sponsorship.TheMuseum is most grateful to patrons,donors and sponsors, together withFriends groups for their continuedand generous support for capitaldevelopments and acquisitions, andacross the range of curatorial andeducational programmes.

During the year, objects valued at£14 million were given to the Museumand £1.8 million was donated toparticular acquisitions.The BritishMuseum Friends contributed £350,000towards acquisitions and the Museumrecords its thanks to the HeritageLottery Fund, NationalArt CollectionsFund and National Heritage MemorialFund for their help in specificacquisitions.

Operational successThe Museum works to increasecommercial and private income tosupport its purposes. Following theopening of the Great Court, incomefrom commercial trading, fees fromexhibitions, courses and loans, anddonations, sponsorship and legacieshas increased by 38.5%.

The importance of the Museum asa venue for external and partnershipevents was evident in the yearfollowing the opening of the Clore

The growth inincome per visitorhas increased by36% comparedto last year

Income2001/02 2000/01

£m £m

Grant-in-aid from the Government 36.0 34.9

Commercial trading (net) 0.6 0.3

Fees from exhibitions, courses and loans 4.1 2.0

Donations, sponsorship and legacies* 4.3 4.2

Investment income and rent 1.8 3.0

Less: income allocated to capital expenditure (0.5) (7.3)

46.3 37.1

Commercial 1%

Donations 9%

Fees 9%

Investment 4%

Grant-in-aid 77%

The full accounts for the year ended 31 March 2002 were laid before Parliament on 24 July 2002.The full report and accounts may be found on the Museum’s web-site www.thebritishmuseum.ac.ukor copies may be obtained by writing to the Director of Finance,The British Museum, Great RussellStreet, LondonWC1B 3DG

*This excludes amounts raised for capital projects


Education Centre with the highest everlevel of profit achieved for this activity.

The varied occasions when theMuseum facilities were used included:the reception for the StirlingAward forarchitecture; the Sunday Times Stylelecture by Stella McCartney; aphotoshoot for the new Jaeger fashioncatalogue; filming the adaptation ofthe children’s story Stig of the Dumpfor BBCTV; the NationalAssociationof HeadTeachers’conferencePartnerships for PromotingArts inLearning, and a wide range of otherprofessional development events.

New partnerships with HeritageImage Partnership,Atelier 350 and theBridgemanArt Library, as well as theintroduction of on-site sales of high-quality electronic prints, are designedto extend the availability and use ofthe Museum’s images.

This year,The British MuseumCompany has consolidated its retailactivity in the three new shops in

the Great Court and refocused theshop at 22 Bloomsbury Street.A range of new tours and guideproducts was introduced.The BritishMuseumTraveller, which takes toursto international sites, remained inprofit despite the need to rescheduletours in the light of disruptions tothe global market. Overall, however,income from retail, merchandisingand publishing was less thanprojected due to the decrease intourism to London.

The Museum deficitA Museum deficit of £5 million by2004–5 was projected as a result ofthis downturn and having to fundcapital renewals from income again.

Faced with this potential deficit,the Museum has undertaken afundamental review of its revenuebudget to deal with a growingmismatch between costs and availableincome.As a result, it has determined

plans to reduce its operating costsincluding tighter constraints on capitalexpenditure, the introduction of aGallery Availability Plan, togetherwith a progressive reduction in thestaff base and consolidation ofimprovements to the HumanResources and Finance operations.

Throughout these measures theessential commitment to the care ofthe collections, to access, educationand curatorial excellence remain.

In the coming year, support costswill be reduced by the relocation ofstaff and collections from the formerMuseum of Mankind building inBurlington Gardens, and by thedevelopment of databases for digitalimages, loans management andmembership systems.

The Museum is committed topursuing vigorously income andeffectiveness and it will continueto press its case for improved publicfunding to maintain free admission.

The effectivenessof the Museum’sbuilding managementwas recognisedin an EnergyEfficiency award

Expenditure2001/02 2000/01

£m £m

Curation, research and conservation 18.7 18.3

Maintenance and security 13.9 11.0

Public access and education 13.8 13.4

Fundraising and publicity 0.7 1.0

Management and administration 0.4 0.6

Exhibitions and other trading 2.8 2.1

Less: depreciation (7.5) (6.2)

42.8 40.2

Surplus/(Deficit) 3.5 (3.1)

Curation 38%

Exhibitions 5%

Public access 27%

Fundraising 1%

Maintenance andsecurity 28%

Management 1%

The surplus of £3.5m in 2001/02, before investment losses and exceptional items, compared witha deficit of £3.1m in 2000/01. It was achieved through: (i) using proceeds from property sales in1998/99, with the approval of DCMS andTreasury, to fund essential capital expenditure and (ii)cost reduction measures put in place in November 2001


Appendix 1Donors,Patronsand Friends ofThe BritishMuseumSupport for The British Museumand the Great Court:1994–2002TheTrustees are extremely gratefulto the following benefactors and donorswho have supportedThe British Museumand whose generosity made the GreatCourt possible.

Above all we record the remarkablegenerosity of the Principal Benefactorof the Great CourtTheWeston Family

Foundation GrantsHeritage Lottery FundThe Millennium Commission

DonorsABNAmro and Lasalle BankLucy AAdamsTheAlaghband FoundationMr and Mrs James AlexandreAmerican Express FoundationAmerican Friends ofThe British MuseumTheAmerican Society in LondonThe Honorable and MrsWalter H

AnnenbergTheAnnenberg FoundationArcana FoundationAsahi Shimbun facilitated through

The Japan FoundationAurelius CharitableTrustAvenal CharitableTrustNeil C and Jean Levitt BirnbergThe Peter Boizot FoundationThe Charlotte Bonham Carter

CharitableTrustBPThe Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation

in honour of Mr and Mrs John L LoebThe British Museum Company LtdThe British Museum FriendsJeffrey and Mary Elizabeth BunzelThe Cadogan CharitySandra Elizabeth CanningThe Rt Hon Lord and Lady CarringtonThomas Sivewright Catto

Charitable SettlementCazenove & CoCGNU plcCharities Advisory TrustCHK Charities LimitedThe Clore Foundation and

TheVivien Duffield FoundationClothworkers’FoundationThe John S Cohen FoundationMr and MrsTimothy C CollinsThe Sidney and Elizabeth Corob

CharitableTrustC S Craig Family Foundation IncDaniel P DavisonMr and MrsWilliam M DietelThe Dixons FoundationSir Harry and Lady DjanoglyDameVivien Duffield cbeMr and Mrs James A DuncanMary,Viscountess EcclesMr and Mrs David EdwardsThe John Ellerman FoundationThe Equitable CharitableTrustMr and Mrs J Michael EvansThe Esmée Fairbairn FoundationMr James Fairfax ao

The Fidelity Foundations of Fidelity Investments

Mr Francis FinlayFishmongers’CompanyMrs Barbara FleischmanFlemingsFord Motor Company Mrs Kathleen Kin-Yue FuKate GanzRobert Gavron CharitableTrustWalter and Celia GilbertThe HoraceW Goldsmith FoundationSir Nicholas and Lady Goodison’s

Charitable SettlementVira Hladun GoldmannMrs Patricia HaganDr Hahn Kwang-ho cbeMrs Robin HambroThe late Lord Hamlyn and Lady HamlynThe Paul Hamlyn FoundationThe Headley TrustD L HillMr and Mrs Roger S HorchowSir Joseph HotungIn Memory of Jean DuffieldThe International Friends of

The British MuseumThe Ironmongers’CompanyMr and MrsWilliam H JohnJonathan H KaganMr and Mrs Donald KahnThe Kresge FoundationAlbert Kunstadter Family FoundationMr and Mrs Frank LaddLaing Family TrustsShau-Wai LamDr Roy Lennox and Ms JoanWebermanLouisa Lewisohn MemorialTrustLinklaters &AllianceMarconi plcMarsh ChristianTrustThe Mercers’CompanyThe Monument TrustThe Henry Moore FoundationMr Peter Moores cbe dlThe Peter Moores CharitableTrustThe NationalArt Collections FundRalph E Ogden Foundation IncPF CharitableTrustBrian and Esther PilkingtonThe Hazen Polsky FoundationGrant A PorterBarbara Putnam LymanSir William and Lady PurvesThe late Dr Gad Rausing and

Dr Birgit RausingLord and Lady RayneThe Rayne FoundationRMC Group plcLord and Lady RothschildN M Rothschild & Sons LtdRoyal Commission for the Exhibition

of 1851Dr Raymond Sackler Hon kbe and

Mrs Beverly SacklerDavid and Susie SainsburyThe late Sir Robert Sainsbury

and Lady SainsburyThe Hon Simon SainsburyThe Coral Samuel CharitableTrustStephen S ScherSchroders plcMr John SedmakMs Dasha ShenkmanMr Akihiko ShibataMr and Mrs James SlaughterMr and Mrs Martin SommersPaul and Daisy Soros FoundationThe Starr FoundationMr and Mrs Hugh StevensonSir Howard Stringer and

Dr Jennifer PattersonThe SwanTrustPaul and LouiseThackray

The EugeneV and Clare EThaw CharitableTrust

Mr and Mrs Hunter ThompsonLady ThomsonTheTrusthouse Charitable FoundationThe UnderwoodTrustViacomMr Harry MWeinrebeLord and Lady WeinstockTheWeinstock FundTheWeldon UK CharitableTrustTheWellcomeTrust The late Mr Garry Weston and

Mrs Garry WestonThe GarfieldWeston FoundationMr and Mrs Stephen van CWilberdingThe MauriceWohl Charitable FoundationBetty Wold Johnson and

Douglas F BushnellMrs PatriciaWolfstonLord and Lady Wolfson of MaryleboneTheWolfson FoundationWoodcock FoundationDiana EdgsonWright CharitableTrust Mr Jaime Zobel DeAyalaThe Hon Paul Zuckerman

and all those donors who wish toremain anonymous

UK Patrons ofThe BritishMuseumTheTrustees thank the Patrons ofTheBritish Museum who make a minimumannual subscription and donationof £1,500Prince and Princess SadruddinAga KhanMr Charles Allen-JonesMr and Mrs SelwynAlleyneMr GerardArnholdSir DavidAttenboroughThe Duke of BeaufortSir Christopher and Lady BlandMr and Mrs George BlochMiss Kate BraineLord Browne of MadingleyProfessor Ian Brownlie cbe qcMarie-Louise BurnessThe Fay and Robert Caplin FoundationDr Pauline Chan obeMs Amelia Chilcott FawcettDr and Mrs Lincoln ChinSidney and Elizabeth CorobIrene DanilovichThe Countess of DartmouthMr and Mrs Edwin DaviesDr W J R DreesmanJames EdeLord and Lady EgremontGiuseppe EskenaziMr and Mrs PaulW FerrellPhilippe Foriel-DestezetMrs Kathleen Kin-Yue FuRobert Gavron cbeJacqueline and Jonathan GestetnerSir Nicholas and Lady GoodisonMr and Mrs Donald GordonLady GoslingMrs D N GoulandrisGraham Greene cbeWilliam Gronow DavisProf ET HallMrs Rupert HambroMr Eric HeeremaMick JaggerMr and Mrs Paul Z JosefowitzMr and Mrs Simon KeswickMr Jorgen Larsen and Dr Beatrice

von Silva-TaroucaMrs Eileen Day LawsonMr SimonWalters and Mrs Barbara

Leach-WaltersMr and Mrs Peter Leaver

The Hon Sir Mark and Lady Lennox-BoydLady LeverThe Hon and Mrs Robert J D Lloyd GeorgeJulian Marland and PaulineWoodThe Hon Mrs Marten obe dlMr E J McFaddenMiss Maria MooersSir Alastair and Lady MortonMr and Mrs Peter M NomikosViscount andViscountess NorwichMr and MrsAnthony OgilvieThompsonJanet OrrMr and MrsAnthony Pitt-RiversBarbara, Lady PooleSir William and Lady PurvesDr Birgit RausingMiss K RausingMr and Mrs John RobinsMr andThe Hon Mrs David RowseKenneth Rubens frsaDr Deanna Lee RudgardJames M Sassoon EsqMr James and Dr Shirley SherwoodMr and Mrs E PT SimpsonMr and Mrs Martin G SmithSir Robert and Lady SmithMrs Ganga Somany

Corporate Partners ofThe British MuseumTheTrustees thank the CorporatePartners who make an annualsubscription of £25,000BPEsureGoldman Sachs InternationalLinklaters &Alliance

American Donors,Sponsorsand PatronsTheTrustees thank the Major AmericanDonors, theAmerican Sponsors whomake an annual donation of $5,000,and theAmerican Patrons who makea minimum annual donation of $2,500 to the MuseumMajor American DonorsThe Deborah Loeb Brice FoundationThe Brown FoundationLady EcclesFrancis FinlayMrs Barbara FleischmanFord Motor Company FundHoraceW Goldsmith FoundationThe Hazen Polsky FoundationAnn M HotungMr and MrsWilliam H JohnJonathan H KaganMr and Mrs FrankA LaddLinda Noe LaineRoy W Lennox and Joan EWebermanBarbara P LymanNortheast Theatre CorporationDr Elizabeth SacklerMr and Mrs George HWhite IIIWoodcock P Foundation

American SponsorsCharles S CraigDaniel P DavisonMrs Patricia HaganMrs Robin HambroGrant A PorterSir Howard StringerMr and Mrs Jeffrey MWeingarten

American PatronsMr and Mrs GeorgeAdamsDr AnnetteAtkins andThomas R Joyce JrMary Elizabeth BunzelMr and Mrs Dennis CalvaneseKimberly DuRossMr and Mrs Dalton Dwyer


Mr and Mrs Roderick HallThomas C HeagyMrs Kenneth KeatingMr and Mrs Iqbal MamdaniHolt MasseySylvia ScheuerMr and Mrs Stanley DeForest ScottYan Kit SoMr and Mrs PaulW SoldatosH Peter Stern and Dr Margaret JohnsLady ThomsonMr LawrenceWallaceBrian and KatherineYoung

Members of the Societyof Canadian FriendsTheTrustees thank the Canadian FriendsofThe British Museum for their support.Mrs MoraAbellMrsVirginia BAlexandorMr and MrsA C BaillieMr and Mrs RichardA BethellMr Robin BrockMs Ann CameronMrs KimAbell DalglishMrs Peter DalglishThe Dalglish Family FoundationDr and Mrs Glen EdwardsHon Royce Frith, qcMr C HampsonMr and MrsW B HarrisMr William E HewittW B G HumphriesAnthony Knox llpMrs Mary LemessurierMs AnneY LindseyMrs Susanne LoewenMrs Molly Anne MacdonaldJ P S MackenzieHon Roy MacLarenMs Deirdre MaloneMrs Brenda J McCutcheonMrs Ellen McIlroyMr and Mrs John McNeilMrsVodrie McOuatMs Eliza MitchellMr RonaldW OsborneMrs Honor de PencierMrs Diana PitfieldMr GeraldW PittmanMr and Mrs John PooleMrs JA RhindMr Joe RotmanMrs Helen S SmithMcCarthy TetraultMs MarthaWilderMs Wendy Willmot

Legacies toThe British MuseumTheTrustees thank those who have madepledges toThe British Museum this year.

Donors to the Library Fundand Education FundTheTrustees thank the following for theirdonation to the Library Fund andEducation Fund.Agnew’sCHK Charities LtdMr and Mrs Henry DruckerHer Royal Highness The Duchess of

Gloucester CharitableTrustHenry C Hoare CharitableTrustThe Jordan FoundationKreitman FoundationThe Hon Philip LaderThe Rayne FoundationThe Scouloudi FoundationThe SwanTrustTheWeinstock FundAnonaWinn CharitableTrust

Support for new galleries andgallery refurbishmentThe King’s LibraryThe John Ellerman FoundationThe Pidem FundThe Hon Simon SainsburyTheWolfson Foundation

Sanskrit LibraryThe Foyle Foundation

The Sir Harry and Lady DjanoglyClocks andWatches GallerySir Harry and Lady Djanogly

Gallery – Room 33b – ChineseCollectionMr and Mrs SelwynAlleyne

Support for exhibitionsand eventsBP as sponsors of Cleopatra of Egypt:

from History to Myth exhibitioneducation programme

Publicis as sponsors of Brief Lives:Changing Currencies inWesternEurope exhibition and conference

Mr and Mrs SelwynAlleyneTheAgency for CulturalAffairs (Tokyo)Asahi ShimbunAomori CityGordon Barrass and Kristen LippincottBBC televisionBlackwall GreenBrasilConnects The Caryatids The DaiwaAnglo-Japanese FoundationDar al-Athar al-IslamiyyahDr Hahn Kwang-ho cbeRichard HamiltonJapan 2001JapanAirlines The Japan FoundationMrs and MrsWilliam H JohnNorthcote Internet LtdNTTOpen Society InstituteOriental Ceramic SocietyPanasonicRaymond and Beverly Sackler

FoundationToshiba International Foundation

Support for collectingTheTrustees are indebted to theNationalArt Collections Fund, theNational Heritage Memorial Fund andThe British Museum Friends and all thosewho have supported the collectionsthrough the donation and bequest ofobjects, and financial assistance,including those who wish to remainanonymous.Mr and Mrs SelwynAlleyneAmerican Friends ofThe British MuseumArcana FoundationHansonAggregatesGordon Barrass and Kristen LippincottGail Bird andYazzie JohnsonBPMr Percy Brooke-SewellThe CaryatidsDaiwaAnglo-Japanese FoundationProf Samuel EilenbergMrs Sandra Figgess Mrs Barbara FleischmanGudgeon Development LtdMrs Patricia HaganDr Hahn Kwang-ho cbeMr Jonathan HassellHogg the Builder ofYork

Kanji IshizumiMatsuko IshizumiNaomi IshizumiJapan 2001 Organising CommitteeJapan FoundationMrs Mona al-KhatibMr and Mrs FrankA LaddMr and Mrs Norman LeeDr Roy LennoxRosalind and Melanie MusmanMr and Mrs PolskyRootstein-Hopkins FoundationMr John RuleMr Ghazi I ShakerMrsYankit SoMr Jeff SorefMorton Sosland FoundationSouthern Methodist University,

Dallas,TexasEugeneV and Clare EThaw TrustMs JoanWeberman

Support for education,publication,curational projectsand general purposesTheAbbey National CharitableTrust AccentureAmerican Friends ofThe British MuseumArts & Business on behalf of the

American Express FoundationArts Council of EnglandArt Research Foundation (Tokyo)The lateTom BendhemBioanthropology FoundationThe Charles Boot Trust BPBrasilConnectsBritishAcademyBritishAcademy, LeverhulmeTrust BritishArab Commercial BankBritishAssociation of Korean Studies British Institute of Persian StudiesThe British Museum Friends Camden EducationAuthority Canadian Friends ofThe British MuseumThe CaryatidsV ChandChiang Ching-Kuo FoundationCultural Communication Fund BVThe bequest ofAndre DeutschEnglish HeritageFlemings Ford Motor Company FundForeign & Commonwealth OfficeGlaxoSmithKlineThe HoraceW Goldsmith FoundationGrey GooseVodkaThomas C Heagy Heritage Lottery FoundLady Rosalind HurnING Barings The International Friends of

The British MuseumJapanese Festival EducationTrustJonathan KaganThe Mellon FoundationMitsui & Co UK plcMuseums and Galleries CommissionNeil Kreitman FoundationA G Leventis FoundationFiruz Madon FoundationNehru FoundationNTT EastThe Oppenheimer CharitableTrustThe Parnassus FoundationRaymond and Beverly Sackler

FoundationKarim Rida Said FoundationSumitomo FoundationTheTownley GroupRoxieWalkerThe Charles WallaceTrust

Other support groupsCaryatidsMr and Mrs Nicholas EgonMrsAnne EngelhornMrs Barbara Fleischman (Chair)Prof and MrsWalter GilbertMr Claude Hankes-DrielsmaMr and MrsWilliam H JohnMr and Mrs RichardW C KanMr and Mrs FrankA LaddDr Roy W Lennox and Ms JoanWebermanMr and Mrs Constantine LeventisMr Leon Levy and Ms Shelby WhiteMrs Ingrid McAlpineMs Stephanie McCullumDr Raymond Sackler Hon kbe and

Mrs Beverly SacklerMr and Mrs Michael SteinhardtLady Judith SwireDr Dietrich von Bothmer

Friends of theAncient Near EastThe Charlotte Bonham Carter

CharitableTrustIain andAmelia CheyneLord and Lady EgremontMrs Linda Noe LaineMrs Mary A LittauerChristopher and Henrietta McCallJonathan and Jeannette RosenDr Raymond Sackler Hon kbe and

Mrs Beverly Sackler

Japanese FriendsMr Yoshio IshibashiMr Takaaki Shibata

Patrons of Old Master DrawingsMr and Mrs Marcus AgiusMr and Mrs Jean-Luc BaroniM et Mme JeanA BonnaArturo and Corinne CuellarMmeAlice GoldetMr and Mrs Charles HackMr and Mrs Christoph HenkelMrsYvonne KoerferJon and Mary LeadbetterDavid LeventhalRobert M LightMr and Mrs Richard Mansell-JonesMiss Diane NixonFlavia Ormond FineArtsDrs John and Carolyn Parker-WilliamsMr and Mrs DavidTobey Sir Christopher and Lady WhiteMr and Mrs GeorgeWhiteThomas Williams


Appendix 2The BritishMuseum(as at 31.3.02)

Board ofTrusteesMr Graham Greene cbe (Chairman)HRHThe Duke of Gloucester kg, gcvoMr Charles Allen-JonesSir DavidAttenborough ch, cvo, cbe,

frs (until 31.05.01)Mr HasanAskariMr Nicholas BarberDame Gillian P K Beer dbe, fbaSir John Boyd kcmgLord Browne of Madingley frengProf Barry Cunliffe cbeThe Rt Hon Countess of DalkeithSir Michael Hopkins cbe, ra, ribaSir Joseph HotungProf Martin Kemp fbaThe Hon Phillip Lader (from 01.06.01)Mr David LindsellMr Christopher McCall qcDr Jennifer Montagu fbaLord Moser kcb cbe fba (until 11.6.01)Mr Tom Phillips raLord Powell of Bayswater kcmg

(from 01.01.02)Sir Martin Rees frsDr Anna RitchieMr Eric SalamaProf Jean OThomas cbe frsSir KeithThomas fbaMr JohnTusa

Trustees’CommitteesThe Chairman of theTrustees is anex officio member of all Committees.

Audit and GovernanceLord Browne of Madingley (Chairman)

Finance and PlanningMr David Lindsell (Chairman)

Public Policy Mr Nicholas Barber (Chairman)

Remuneration and NominationMr Graham Greene (Chairman)

ScholarshipSir KeithThomas (Chairman)

Study CentreSir KeithThomas (Chairman)

Chairman’s Committee(from 29.9.01)Mr Graham Greene (Chairman)

Trustees also serve on the Councils andBoards of the following:The BritishMuseum Company Limited;The BritishMuseum Development Trust;The BritishMuseum Friends

The British MuseumDevelopment TrustHonorary President: HRHThe Princess

Margaret, Countess of Snowdonci gcvo († 9.2.02)

Chairman: Lord Moser kcb cbe fbaDirector: Sukie Hemming

In 1994 BMDT was given overallresponsibility for securing funding forThe British Museum’s Great Courtproject and the DevelopmentProgramme associated with theMuseum’s 250th anniversary in 2003.

Following the successful completionof the Great Court in 2000, further majorprojects underway are the creation of theWellcome Gallery of Ethnography and

the refurbishment of the King’s Library,both opening in 2003.

The overall aims of BMDT are to:npromote understanding of thecollections by securing sponsorship andendowment funding for curatorial andeducational posts;nbroaden public awareness of theMuseum’s unrivalled collections throughthe opening of new permanent galleriesand the refurbishment of existing spaces;nfacilitate the creation and financingof a wide range of educational andoutreach projects;nsecure sponsorship for the Museum’sexhibition programme;nraise funds for specific areas of theMuseum’s work including acquisitions,conservation and scientific equipment,excavations and fieldwork, libraries,archives and multimedia projects;nmanageThe British Museum’s legacycampaign which secures vital funds forthe Museum’s work.

As part of its fundraising role, BMDThosts a wide range of events includingbreakfasts, receptions and gala dinners.BMDT also administers high-levelmembership groups including individualPatrons ofThe British Museum andCorporate Partners. In its work, BMDT isadvised by the BMDT Council, a group ofdistinguished individuals, and in turn bysub-committees; the Corporate CouncilCommittee, chaired by Mr BernardAsherand the International Committee,chaired by Viscountess Norwich.

American Friends ofThe British MuseumChair of Board of Directors:

Lady ThomsonExecutive Director: Mrs Sue DevineAddress:One East 53 Street12th FloorNew York, NY 10022email: [email protected]

Canadian Friends ofThe British MuseumPresident of Directors: Mr John LaneAdministrator: Ms Molly PatersonAddress:Suite 200–293131 Bloor Street WestTorontoOntario MS 1R8email: [email protected]

Museum Management BoardDirector: Dr RobertAndersonManaging Director: Ms SuzannaTaverne

(until 31.12.01)Finance Director: Dr Chris HerringHuman Resources Director: Mr Ian BlackMarketing and PublicAffairs Director:

Dr Carol HomdenOperations Director: Mr Chris Jones

(Accounting Officer from 1.1.02)Senior Keeper: Prof John MackKeepers Committee: Dr Andrew BurnettSecretary to theTrustees:

Mr Tony Doubleday

DirectorateDirector: Dr RobertAndersonManaging Director: Ms SuzannaTaverne(until 31.12.01)

The Directors have responsibility, underthe Board, for the management of theMuseum. Dr Anderson is the primary

public representative, and is responsibleto the Board for the curatorialprogramme and collectionsdevelopment.The Managing Directorwas the designatedAccounting Officer,responsible to Parliament and to theAccounting Officer of the Departmentfor Culture, Media and Sport for theeffective operation and development ofthe Museum Plan, and for ensuring thatappropriate advice on these issues ismade available to the Board.TheDirectorate staff provide administrativesupport including servicing managementmeetings, research and organisingofficial visits.

Curatorial departmentsAncient Egypt and SudanKeeper: Mr Vivian Davies

The Department’s collection illustratesevery aspect of ancient Egyptian andNubian culture from the Neolithic periodto the Christian period, covering a time-span of over 11,000 years from about10,000 bc to the 12th century ad. Oneof the largest and most comprehensiveof its kind, the collection containsarchaeological material from severalthousand sites in Egypt and the Sudan,includes the world-famous RosettaStone and has especially outstandingholdings of funerary objects, papyri,hieroglyphic stelae, sculpture and wall-paintings. It continues to grow, largelythrough the acquisition of antiquitiesfrom excavations.

Ancient Near EastKeeper: Dr John Curtis

The Department covers the civilizationsof theAncient Near East and adjacentareas (Mesopotamia, Iran, theArabianPeninsula,Anatolia, the Caucasus, partsof CentralAsia, Syria, Palestine andPhoenician settlements in the westernMediterranean) from the prehistoricperiod until the coming of Islam in the7th century ad. It is one of the mostcomprehensive collections of ancientNear Eastern material in the world.

Highlights of the collection includetheAssyrian sculptures from Nimrud andNineveh, cuneiform tablets from theRoyal Library at Nineveh, gold jewelleryfrom the Royal Cemetery at Ur, the OxusTreasure, Phoenician ivories, SouthArabian sculpture, and archaeologicalmaterial from ancient Palestine.

At present the main thrust of theDepartment’s acquisitions policy is tocollect groups of excavated materialfrom older excavations such as Nimrudor from current projects in countries,like Jordan, where there is still a divisionof finds.

Coins and Medals Keeper: Dr Andrew Burnett

The collection covers many cultures andis the largest and most comprehensive inthe world.The coin collection covers thewhole history of coinage from its originsin the 7th century bc, and includesrelated material such as coin weights,tokens and toy money.The nationalcollection of paper money includes notesfrom 14th-century China to currentissues from banks all over the world.Themedal collection covers commemorativeand art medals from the ItalianRenaissance to the present day; there isalso a representative collection of 19th-

and 20th-century political badges.The Department’s continuing policy

is to acquire significant pieces from allcultures, to aim for completeness in theseries relating to the history of the BritishIsles, and to strengthen the less well-represented areas of the collection,particularly in the field of modern coinsand medals.

ConservationKeeper: Dr Andrew Oddy (until 6.1.02)Acting Keeper: Sandra Smith(from 7.1.02)

The Department is one of the largestmuseum conservation facilities in theworld and is fortunate in having bothconservators and conservation scientistsworking together.

Its primary role is to preserve thecollections for future generations.Thisinvolves passive conservation, where theenvironment in which the collections arestored or displayed is monitored andcontrolled to provide the best possibleambient conditions to slow down thedeterioration processes. It also involvesactive conservation, where fragile andunstable objects are treated to makethem stronger or more handleable andcauses of inherent decay are removed toincrease their long-term stability.

Conservators also play a key role inresearch, through their understandingof and interpretation of deterioratedsurfaces and through carefulinvestigative cleaning of archaeologicalmaterial. Such work increases theunderstanding of ancient cultures andcontributes to the scholarly output ofthe Museum.

Conservation is also vitally importantin preparing for exhibitions. Cleaning,reconstruction and restoration makethe beauty and the use of objectsmore apparent thus improving thevisitor experience.

The conservation scientistinvestigates the mechanisms by whichobjects deteriorate, identifying methodsfor stabilisation and preservation, solvingproblems which occur duringconservation work and investigating andselecting materials for use in theconservation process.

The skills and expertise within theDepartment are called upon nationallyand internationally to assist in the careof objects and sites of world importance.The inclusion of conservators as part ofexcavation teams is an important partof cultural diplomacy as many of theconserved objects are destined forlocal museums.

Education DepartmentHead of Department: Mr John Reeve

The Education Department aims to makethe Museum more accessible to its variedaudiences by providing advice, teachingand learning resources to specific targetgroups, as well as contributing in otherways to the visitor experience.The needsof children, students and teachers fromschools, colleges and universities arepartly met by providing training,resources and advice for the teachersthemselves. Direct teaching and hands-on workshops for selected groups areprovided, including special programmesconnected to exhibitions.The Lifelong-learning programme includes gallerytalks, lectures and films, as well as study


days and other courses.The EducationDepartment trains professional andvolunteer guides. Outreach includestheArabWorld programme and work bytheAccess, Science, Family and PrimaryEducation Officers.

The Department has an importantinput internally into the planning ofgalleries and exhibitions, and itcontributes publications to BMPress, andadvises on educational publishing. Staffare also involved with museum andexternal training courses.

EthnographyKeeper: Dr Brian Durrans

The Department interprets ways of lifeof past and contemporary peopleworldwide. Its collections largely derivefrom indigenous communities inAfrica,Oceania,Asia, theAmericas and parts ofEurope, and from modern nation states,and include important archaeologicalmaterial from theAmericas and partsof Oceania andAfrica. Many of thecollections are the finest in the world.The most notable strengths are:metalwork, in particular the Beninbronzes; ivories fromWest Africa; textilesfrom all continents; wood sculpturefromWest and CentralAfrica and fromPolynesia; Pre-Columbian stone andturquoise mosaic work from Meso-America; collections formed during thevoyages of Captains Cook andVancouverboth in the Pacific and among thepeoples of the Northwest Coast ofAmerica, and the 19th-centurycollections from Indonesia acquiredby Sir Stamford Raffles.

The Department actively acquirescontemporary material in variousparts of the world. In recent years fieldcollections have been formed in allcontinents, often in the context ofethnographic fieldwork carried out bymembers of the Department’s staff.

Greek and RomanAntiquities Keeper: Dr DyfriWilliams

The Department covers the Greek worldfrom the beginning of the BronzeAge,Italy and Rome from the BronzeAge, andthe whole of the Roman Empire exceptBritain until the Edict of Milan (ad 313),with pagan survivals later.The Museumholds one of the most comprehensivecollections of classical antiquities in theworld, with few significant gaps. It isnotable for Greek architectural sculpture,in particular from the Parthenon inAthens and two of the SevenWondersof theWorld – the Mausoleum atHalicarnassus and theTemple ofArtemis at Ephesus.The collections ofancient jewellery and bronzes, Greekvases and Roman glass and silver areespecially important.

JapaneseAntiquities Keeper: Mr Victor Harris

For the pre-20th century, the collectionof decorative arts is among the finest intheWestern world, while for paintingsand prints the collection is pre-eminentwithin Europe, both in scope and quality.Archaeological material includes potteryof several millennia and tomb goodsfrom the Kofun period, 5th- 6thcenturies.

Important antiquities not representedin other European collections are beingacquired wherever possible, often from

Japanese sources.The foundation of acollection of dated bronzes mostly of the17th–19th centuries, poorly representedin other museums, has been laid downover the past five years with a smallnumber of significant acquisitionscontinuing to be made in the UK. For the20th century, the graphics collection hasbeen brought in the last 15 years fromalmost nothing to comprehensiveholdings, the Japanese Galleries provingthe stimulus for gifts from Japan ofcalligraphy, painting and ceramics.Continuing field trips have resulted infurther gifts, mainly of 20th-centuryceramics, calligraphy and prints.

Libraries andArchivesDavid Eccles Librarian:MrsAlison Sproston

This new Department was established inApril 2001 to manage the Museum’sCentral Library andArchives, and withadvisory responsibility for the curatorialand other departmental libraries.

Medieval and Modern EuropeKeeper: Mr John Cherry

The Department covers European artand archaeology from the Edict of Milan(ad 313) to the present day.

It has outstanding collections of EarlyChristian and Byzantine art,Anglo-Saxon, Celtic archaeology and art, as wellas European antiquities, Romanesqueand Gothic metalwork and ivories, andRenaissance and later pottery, porcelain,glass, cameos and jewellery.Thecollections also embrace the art andarchaeology of other Christian andJewish cultures including Byzantium,Anatolia and the Caucasus.The NationalHorological collection, the mostcomprehensive in existence, forms partof the collections, as do the nationalcollections ofAnglo-Saxon antiquities,icons, seal dies, and medieval pottery.An important collection of modern artand design is also held and beingdeveloped

It has been the continuing policy ofthe Department to acquire significantobjects of archaeological and historicalimportance and to strengthen itsreference collections.

OrientalAntiquitiesKeeper: Mr Robert Knox

With the exception of the ancientcivilizations of the Near East and theculture of Japan, the Department coversthe cultures ofAsia from the Neolithicperiod to the present day.The collectionsinclude paintings and prints from allareas as well as antiquities and sculpture.The sculpture from the Indiansubcontinent forms the mostcomprehensive group in theWest andincludes the world-famous Buddhistreliefs fromAmaravati.The Museumholds the richest collections of Chineseantiquities, paintings and porcelain inEurope and is also famous for its ChineseBuddhist paintings from Dunhuang inwestern China. In addition to the mostextensive holding of Islamic potteryoutside the Islamic world, theDepartment is well known for itsmedieval Islamic metalwork.Thecollections are being extended bythe acquisition of both ancient andcontemporary material throughfieldwork, purchase and gift.

Prehistory and Early EuropeKeeper: Dr Caroline Malone

The Department covers the Palaeolithicof the whole world (c. 2,000,000–10,000years ago), the Prehistoric archaeologyof Britain and Europe (c.500,000–2,000years ago), and the archaeology and artof Roman Britain (ad 43–410).The OldStoneAge collections are one of thelargest in the world.They includeexamples of the earliest tools made byhumans and a magnificent collectionof IceAge miniature art.The nationalcollections of later prehistoric materialfrom England’s Neolithic, BronzeAge andIronAge also include material from otherparts of Britain, Ireland and ContinentalEurope. Major treasures include fineceramics, flint work, gold ornaments,bronze metalwork and an importantcollection of ‘CelticArt’.Artefacts fromRoman Britain provide a comprehensivepicture of life in a Roman frontierprovince, ranging from mundane items,including the well-preserved letters fromthe fort at Vindolanda to art objects,imperial sculpture and treasures ownedby the wealthy.

New acquisitions include majornational discoveries and material fromnew archaeological excavations whichenhance both the displays and theresearch into the prehistoric and Romanworld.The Department has key statutoryroles in relation to English archaeology,especially in the operation of theTreasureAct and Export Licensingprocedures. It also supports the DCMSPortableAntiquities initiative.

Prints and DrawingsKeeper: Mr Antony Griffiths

The Department houses one of the mostrepresentative collections of prints anddrawings from European societies inexistence.The print collection covers ina comprehensive way the developmentof printmaking from its beginnings inthe 15th century to modern times, andincludes many rare as well as artisticallyand historically important works.Similarly the collection of 50,000drawings is one of the most diverse in theworld, and includes works of the highestquality by most of the leading artists ofthe European schools from the 15thcentury onwards.

Detailed information about theDepartment and the wide variety of itscollections is to be found in the User’sGuide by A Griffiths and RWilliams(1987).

Scientific ResearchKeeper: Dr Sheridan Bowman

The Department undertakes scientificresearch on, and relevant to, thecollections.The breadth of the scientificwork reflects the diversity and wealthof the Museum’s collections.It encompasses the composition ofthe objects, the technologies used intheir manufacture, their provenances,dates and past environments.

Well-equipped laboratories areessential to the Museum’s work, andinclude facilities for X-radiography,scanning electron microscopy, Ramanspectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.Where cost effective,time is purchased on equipment housedin universities and other institutions, orcollaborative projects are initiated with

other researchers who have access to thetechniques required.

The Collections Data ManagementSection (CDMS) is responsible for thecomputerisation of the records ofthe Museum’s collections, providinga powerful audit, management andresearch facility.

Administrative departmentsFinanceDirector: Dr Chris Herring

The Finance Department is responsiblefor providing financial planning,budgeting, accounting and payrollservices in the Museum and, withtheAssurance Manager, for overseeingthe regime of Internal Control.TheDepartment administers theTrust Fundsand produces the annual consolidatedreport and accounts to include BMDT,BMCo, BMGC andTrust Funds.

Human ResourcesDirector: Mr Ian Black

The Human Resources Department isresponsible for providing the Museumwith efficient and effective advice on allemployee relations, employment andpeople management matters, and withdeveloping information systems, policiesand procedures to help managers andstaff make good use of all of the talentsand skills in the Museum.

TheTraining Section is responsiblefor working with managers in assessingtraining needs, co-ordinating Museum-wide initiatives and delivering orenabling training and professionaldevelopment.

Marketing and PublicAffairsDirector: Dr Carol Homden

The Directorate comprises: CorporateServices; Exhibitions and Design;Marketing Communications; MediaRelations; Membership Development;andVisitor Services.

The Corporate Services team hostsevents at the Museum and organisesfilming access in order to manage theMuseum’s public presence and services.The Marketing Communications sectionis responsible for the management of aconsistent and appropriate corporateidentity and the development ofcorporate and commercial servicesincluding catering and guided tours.Photography and Imaging provideimages to the public, as well as meetingthe photographic requirements ofthe Museum and BMPress.

The Media Relations team isresponsible for the development ofa positive profile for the Museumthrough the media.

The Exhibition and Designdepartment is responsible for thedelivery of the programme of temporaryexhibitions; the creation andrefurbishment of permanent galleries;the presentation of informationincluding signage, and generally forthe quality and standards of design inthe public areas of the Museum.

Visitor Services ensure that visitorshave all the information and servicesthey need to enjoy their time atThe British Museum and to pursue theirinterest in the Museum’s collectionsand activities.

The Membership Development team


provides services for the operation ofThe British Museum Friends and works todevelop support for the Museum throughsubscriptions, events and donations.

SecretariatSecretary to theTrustees:Mr Tony Doubleday

The Museum’s Secretariat provideslogistical and policy support to theTrustees, and liaises with departmentsover the implementation of theirdecisions.The Secretary exercisesa general oversight of legislationconcerning the Museum’s activities,and deals with legal and insurance issues.

Operations DirectorateDirector: Mr Chris Jones

The Directorate comprises BuildingDevelopment and Planning (BDP),Building Management Department(BMD), Security Operations, and theInformation Systems Department (IS).

BDP encompasses forward planningfor the whole estate in terms ofimprovement and development tosupport the Museum’s changing aimsand requirements. BMD is responsiblefor the operational aspects of the estate.

Security Operations are responsiblefor security matters and fire safetymanagement and play a key role inthe development of the Museum’semergency response.

IS provides and supports computingfacilities for the Museum.

Membership support forthe MuseumThe British Museum Friends (Registered Charity no: 280647)Chairman of Council: Mr Nicholas BarberHead of Membership Development:Margaret Fenn

The Friends purpose is to develop abody of support for the Museum inits collecting, research, excavation,conservation and educationprogrammes.The Friends also providevolunteer help with the work of manydepartments.

Members receive The British MuseumMagazine three times a year, free entrywith a guest to all exhibitions and11 evening openings each year.Theyalso enjoy a programme of specialactivities such as study days, lectures,and behind-the-scenes visits, the use ofa Members’Room at the Museum,plus regular mailing of the Museumevents programme.

Associate members receive, inaddition to the above, an invitationfrom the Director to an annual receptionand other exclusive events, and acomplimentary book each year.TheTownley Group support specificprojects and have an opportunity tomeet the curators involved.

TheYoung Friends ofThe BritishMuseum have their own programme ofevents, talks, workshops and sleepovers.

Support for departmentsCaryatidsThe Caryatids is an international group,with members in Britain,America,Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland and HongKong, which supports the Departmentof Greek and RomanAntiquities throughfacilitating acquisitions and research.

Friends of theAncient Near EastThe Friends of theAncient Near Eastsupport the purchase of antiquities,books, and the general running costsof the Department of theAncientNear East.

Japanese FriendsThe Japanese Friends encourage thework of the Department of JapaneseAntiquities in its programme ofexhibitions, research and publication,and cultural exchange activities withJapanese institutions.

The Patrons of Old Master DrawingsThe Patrons of Old Master Drawings isa specialist support group for theDepartment of Prints and Drawings.It was formed in the Spring of 1999 inorder to contribute to the acquisitionof Old Master Drawings.

The British Museum CompanyChairman of the Board of Directors:Mr Nicholas BarberManaging Director: Mr Andrew Thatcher

The Company is a limited company andcharity wholly owned by theTrustees tofurther the educational objectives ofthe Museum. It encompasses publishing,retailing, cultural travel andmerchandising with a turnover ofapproximately £10 million.

The Retail division comprises threeshops in the Great Court (for books,children’s items, souvenirs and guides),a shop in the Grenville Library (forjewellery, textiles and casts), and shopsat 22 Bloomsbury St and HeathrowAirportTerminal 4.

The British Museum Press, theCompany’s publishing imprint, is one ofthe largest museum-based publishersin the world. Its catalogue of around400 titles (with 50 new books a year)provides access at all levels to thecollections and the civilizationsthey represent.

The British MuseumTraveller operatesabout 40 tours a year to places ofarcheological and cultural interest asdiverse as China, Russia, Egypt, Hungaryand theAmazon, with lectures providedby Museum curators and other experts.

The Merchandising division isresponsible for the manufacture andmarketing of a wide range of productsincluding jewellery and accessories,replicas and casts, stationery and gifts.The division’s manufacturing andmarketing activities are complementedby a licensing programme whereby third-parties are authorised to makecommercial use of BM images fora varied range of merchandise.

The Merchandising division producesthe mail order gift catalogue and runsthe Company’s web site(www.thebritishmuseum.co.uk) whichfeatures selected merchandise, thefull Press booklist and theTravellertour programme.

Appendix 3The PublicprogrammeExhibitions With admission charges

Rembrandt the Printmaker25 January–8April 2001

Cleopatra of Egypt:from History to Myth12 April–26 August 2001

Treasury of theWorld: JewelledArts ofIndia in theAge of the Mughals18 May–2 September 2001

Shinto:the SacredArt ofAncient Japan5 September–2 December 2001

UnknownAmazon:Culture in Nature inAncient Brazil25 October 2001–1April 2002

Agatha Christie andArchaeology:Mystery in Mesopotamia8 November 2001–24 March 2002

Free admission

FromAlexander to MarkAntony: Imagesof Power onAncient Coins11 January–6 May 2001

Arts of Japan30 January–8April 2001

Annuraaq:Arctic Clothing from IgloolikBP Ethnography Showcase15 February–27 May 2001

100 Views of Mount Fuji11 May–29 July 2001

Paper Assets:Collecting Prints andDrawings 1996–200114 May–16 September 2001

Souvenirs in Contemporary Japan14 June–13 September 2001

Emperors and Court Ladies:Chinese Figure Painting18 June–29 July 2001

Struck on Gold:Money of the MughalEmperors18 June–29 July 2001

Exploring the City:The NormanFoster Studio22 June–7 October 2001

Country Views:Place and Identity onBritish Paper Money13 September 2001–17 February 2002

New Ways with Gravure:The Prints ofSW Hayter (1901–1988)27 September 2001–13 January 2002

The Print in Italy 1550–162027 September–13 January 2002

Light Motifs:anAomori Float andJapanese Kites14 November 2001–3 March 2002

Brushes with Surprise:theArt ofCalligraphy in Modern China31 January–19 May 2002

Imaging Ulysses:Richard Hamilton’sIllustrations to James Joyce2 February–19 May 2002

The Poetry of Nature:Watercolours byJohn Sell Cotman 1782–18422 February–19 May 2002

Brief Lives:Changing Currencies inWestern Europe21 February–8 September 2002

Unwrapping Science9 March–17 March 2002

Arts of Japan27 March–14 July 2002

Travelling exhibitionsUK

Egypt Revealed:Life and Death inAncient EgyptBirmingham City MuseumandArt Gallery23 May–23 September 2001Stevenage Museum5 May–August 2001

EgyptHartlepool Museum31 January–30 May 2002

The SculptedWord: Inscriptions fromThe British MuseumHenry Moore Institute, Leeds11 June–16 September 2001

Visions from the Golden Land:Burmaand theArt of LacquerExeter Museum7 December 2001–2 February 2002(continuing to Bath and Sunderland)

The Unidentified Museum Object:Curiosities fromThe British MuseumHenry Moore Institute, Leeds12 December 2001–28 February 2002

Loans to exhibitions organised by theArts Council of Great Britain,NationalTouring initiative

Tabloid Culture:the Popular Print inEnglandTheWhitworthArt Gallery6 April–24 June 2001Cartwright Hall, Bradford30 June–19August 2001

Followers of Fashion:Graphic Satires ofthe Georgian PeriodThe Hatton Gallery, Newcastle12 January–10 March 2002

International exhibitions

Agatha Christie and the Middle EastVorderasiatisches Museum, BerlinMay–July 2001

Cleopatra of Egypt:from History to MythThe Field Museum, Chicago26 August 2001–1April 2002

Eternal Egypt:Masterworks ofAncient ArtToledo Museum ofArt, USA1 March–27 May 2001

Wonders:Memphis International CulturalSeries, Memphis2 July–21 October May 2001Brooklyn Museum ofArt23 November 2001–24 February 2002

The Print in Italy 1550–1620Columbia University, New York5 February–31 March 2002

Workshops,study days,courses,conferences andlecturesAll in the Clore Education CentreWorkshops18th-Century CeramicsArt in Focus: Neoclassicism

and ModernismBedouin JewelleryDrawing in the Chinese GalleriesHandling Ming CeramicsHomage to Isadora Duncan from

East &WestJapanese Printmaking DayJ MWTurner,Watercolour into PrintMughal PaintingsMusic and Media at the MuseumPaper InteractionPerforming theArt of KyogenPractical JewelleryPrintmakingTechniques in Focus


Sculpture in the HandThe Story of Money The Stein Collection: Behind the ScenesTouching MedievalAlabastersWashi JewelleryWest AfricanTextileArts

Study days100 Views of Mount FujiBritannia Romana –The Beginning of

Romano BritishArchaeologyCleopatraCostumes, Mask and PerformanceDeath in BritainEast meets West: Oriental PorcelainDecorated in EuropeEpic Queen: Cleopatra on FilmMaritimeArchaeologyMughal CostumesNorth KoreaRembrandt’s WomenShah Jahan and theTaj MahalSir Aurel Stein and CentralAsiaTheAmazon – Past, Present and FutureTheArchaeology of SouthAsiaThe Japanese Influence on ImpressionismThe LevantineWay of DeathTurner after 150 years

CoursesArabic CalligraphyTheArt ofAncient EgyptCeltic MetalworkChineseArt and BeliefHistory andArchaeology in the Levant:

Excavating the BibleIndianTextilesIntroduction toArchaeologyIntroduction to Egyptian HieroglyphsJapanese CinemaJapaneseArt and BeliefJapanese PrintmakingMexican CultureObjects of Identity: the Iconography of

Britishness from KingAlfred toQueenVictoria

Theory and Practice of Drawing

Conferences,Symposia and ColloquiaThe Admonitions Scroll: Ideals of

Etiquette,Art and Empire fromEarly China

Brief Lives: the Changing Currencies of Europe.

The British Museum 25th ClassicalColloquium: Cleopatra Reassessed

Connecting the CollectionFashioning Brazil: BehindVisitors’EyesJewelled Objects from Mughal IndiaNature, Man andArtNimrudPast Practice – Future ProspectsThe Sackler Colloquium:The Egyptian

Delta, Recent Exploration andResearch

TheWorld of the Herods and Nabataeans

Special lecturesAn evening withTracey EminBig Heads in a Nutshell: Nigel SpiveyDiscovering the Ming: Jessica

Harrison-HallDiscussion: Cleopatras Fatal FemininityEdna O’Brien on James JoyceGender, Education and Knowledge:

Lynne SegalGreek Myths in a Landscape: Oliver TaplinMedievalArt andArchitecture from

the Islamic world: Sarah SearightMuseums in aWorld of the Experience

Economy: Charles LandryNo SuchThing as Art: MarinaVaizeyPagan Cleopatra in Christian Europe:

Mary Hamer

Politics and theArabWorld: Charles TrippRichard Hamilton in Conversation with

Jeri JohnsonTheYoung Elizabeth: David StarkeyThe City in Islam: ProfAbouseifTurner: Behind the Scenes:Timothy

WilcoxWonderfulThings: Christopher FraylingBP annual Lecture on Civilization:

Mrs Mary Robinson13th Dingwall Beloe Lecture8thWilliam Fagg Memorial Lecture4thAW Franks Lecture7thAnnual Denys Haynes

Memorial Lecture9thVladimir G Lukonin Memorial Lecture5thAnna Gray Noe Lecture in

BiblicalArchaeologyRaymond and Beverly Sackler

Foundation Distinguished Lecture inEgyptology: Prof GeballaA Geballa’

The British Museum Friends(activities at The British Museum)LecturesAncient Greeks for AllAphrodisiasBeauty and the EroticCrusader CastlesDeath and theAfterlifeDigging up the PastDisowning CleopatraEgyptianWomanEtruscan CivilizationGentlemen and PlayersThe Great CourtHenry VIIIHoward CarterImages of CleopatraJewels at the Mughal CourtLove Death andApostasyMarieAntoinetteMasqueradeMax andAgatha at NimrudMighty AphroditeMurder in MesopotamiaNature andArtOld Father ThamesPetra: Days of GloryQueens of the DesertRecent Excavations inAlexandriaRomance and RealityScottish Stone CirclesSlaying the MinotaurThe United MonarchyThe Portrait and GardenThe Egyptian CleopatrasThe Black DeathUnderwater AlexandriaWetwang ChariotWilderness of Zin

Performances,study days,workshops,behind the scenesBritishArt FairCaesar & CleopatraChurning the Milky OceanCleopatra study dayEgyptian Sculpture study dayEgyptian Stone StoreGlass in FocusHildegard of BingenHistory of theWatchMughal MiniaturesMyths of MesopotamiaOdysseusOrientalArtsRagePharaohs of the SunSampling SakeTelling theTimeWinter Tales

VisitsBridges over theThamesDelights of Georgian LondonDennis Sever’s HouseFoundling MuseumIronAge BritainMarx Memorial LibraryOld Battersea HouseRoman KentStoweSutton Hoo andWest StowThe Roman CoastTheVictorianVisionTraveller’s ClubWestminster School

Special Events and Public LecturesCelebrating Pompeii: ProfAndrew

Wallace-HadrillCleopatra’s Fatal Femininity:

Christopher FraylingDiscover Odin: Julian CopeDisgracefulArchaeology: Paul Bahn

and BillTidyEastern Journeys on the IndigoTrail:

Jenny Balfour-PaulKyogen theatreP D James: P D James and Frances FyfieldTheYoung Elizabeth: Reginald HillValley of the Golden Mummy:

Zahi Hawas

Evening OpeningsAncient PortraitsArt andArchitectureDeath on the NileExploring the OrientGold, Glitter and GlamourImages of the OrientImaging UlyssesMystery in MesopotamiaPandora’s BoxRenaissance DiscoveryVoyages of Discovery

Young Friends ofThe BritishMuseumActivitiesATaste of theTomb Sunday ClubAfrican Masks Sunday ClubDreamTeam Sunday ClubFlying Fish Sunday ClubFood of the Gods Sunday ClubGet Knotted Sunday ClubMore Food of the Gods Sunday ClubRoman Mosaics Sunday ClubSilly Silhouettes Sunday ClubSnakes and Pharaohs Sunday ClubSpirits and Stories Sunday ClubThe Maze and the Minotaur Sunday ClubArts ofAfrica Museum workshopCleopatra’s Beauty Tips workshopDoctor Doctor workshopIndianTreasureTrove workshopIslamicTile workshopViking Myths and Legends workshopFamily Christmas EveningMarvellous Mythical Beasts talkNick-nacks and Curious Fancies talkRavenous Romans talkEgyptian Basement TourVisit to Butser Ancient FarmVisit to the Foundling MuseumA Day in the Life of a CuratorAfter Hours: Museum and Basement TrailAmazonian SleepoverEgyptian SleepoverHoard it upJapanese Festival FloatPaper Magic SundayProfessor Linnell’s OpticalTheatre

Appendix 4New publicationsThe British Museum Presspublications 2001–02Adams E, Chelsea PorcelainAnderson R,The British Museum

Guide Book, Japanese ednBarford P M, The Early SlavsBarrass G S,TheArt of Calligraphy in

Modern ChinaBentley D, The SevenWonders of the

Ancient WorldBiddle S & Biddle M, Beginning OrigamiBurn L & Higgins R, Catalogue of Greek

Terracottas inThe British MuseumVol IIIBurt B & Kwa’ioloa M (eds), A Solomon

Island Chronicle:as Told by SamuelAlasa’a

Bury M, The Print in Italy 1550–1620ChamberlainA C & Pearson M P, Earthly

Remains:the History and Science ofPreserved Human Bodies

ClarkT, 100 Views of Mount FujiCorrigan G, MiaoTextiles from China.

Fabric Folios Davies WV (ed), Colour and Painting in

Ancient EgyptDelgado J P (ed), Encyclopaedia of

Underwater and MaritimeArchaeology

Doyle R (illustrations), In Fairyland:anAnthology

GabucciA, Ancient Rome:Art,Architecture and History

Gillow J, Printed and DyedTextiles fromAfrica.Fabric Folios

Graham I, Alfred Maudsley and the Maya:a Biography

Green J, TheVikings. Colouring BookHansom P, TheAmazon Rainforest.

Colouring BookHansom P, Anglo Saxons. Colouring BookHarris V (ed), Shinto:The SacredArt

ofAncient JapanHarrison-Hall J, Ming Ceramics in

The British MuseumHart G, Pocket Dictionary ofAncient

Egyptian Gods and GoddessesHayes D, An HistoricalAtlas of the North

Pacific Ocean:Maps of Discovery andScientific Exploration

Hecht A, Textiles from Guatemala.Fabric Folios

Hinterding E, Luijten G & Royalton-KischM (eds), Rembrandt the Printmaker

Ja’far M, Arabic Calligraphy:Naskh Script for Beginners

Kwa’ioloa M & Burt B (eds), The Forest of Kwara’ae

Lindsay J, Masks:to press outLovric M, Cleopatra’s Face, Fatal BeautyMcCall H, The Life of Max Mallowan:

Archaeology andAgatha ChristieMcEwan C, Barreto C & Neves E (eds),

UnknownAmazonMcGhee R, TheArcticVoyages of Martin

Frobisher:an ElizabethanAdventureMichel S, Zazoff P & Zazoff H, Magische

Gemmenim Britischen Museum(Magical Gems inThe British Museum)

Mosher M Jr, Catalogue of the Books ofthe Dead in the British Museum,Vol II:The Papyrus of Hor

Murase M(ed),TheTale of Genjiv: Legends and Paintings

Needham S P, Runnymede BridgeResearch Excavations,Vol I:The Passage of theThames:Holocene Environment andSettlement at Runnymede


Orlinska G & BrzezinskiW, Catalogueof the ‘GermanicAntiquities’fromthe Klemm Collection inThe British Museum

Orna-Ornstein J, Archaeology:Discovering the Past

Paine S, Embroidery from Indiaand Pakistan.Fabric Folios

Paisey D, Catalogue of German PrintedBooks to 1900 inThe British Museum

Pemberton D, The Egyptian Queen Beauty Book:How to Dress andAct like anEgyptian Queen

Purefoy P B & Meadows A, SyllogeNummorum Graecorum,Vol IX:The British Museum, Part 2 – Spain

Pyne S J, Fire:A Brief HistoryRutter K (ed), Historia Numorum: ItalySavage C, Witch:TheWild Ride from

Wicked toWiccaSheehan S, The British Museum Illustrated

Encyclopaedia ofAncient GreeceSiliottiA (ed), Belzoni’sTravels (Giovanni

Battista Belzoni:Narrative of theOperations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia)

Stafford-Deitsch J,The Monuments ofAncient Egypt

Syson L &Thornton D, Objects ofVirtue:Art in Renaissance Italy

Tiradritti F, Ancient Egypt:Art,Architecture and History

Trampler C (ed), Agatha ChristieandArchaeology

Walker S (ed), Cleopatra of Egypt:from History to Myth

Welsby DA, The Medieval Kingdoms ofNubia:Pagans, Christians and Muslims on the Middle Nile

The British MuseumOccasional PapersArchibald M M & Cook B J, English

Medieval Coin Hoards: I Cross andCrosslets, Short Cross and Long Cross Hoards.OP 87

Brisbane M & Gaimster D (eds),Novgorod:theArchaeology ofa Russian Medieval City andits Hinterland.OP 141

Hecht A, Guatemalan Textiles inThe British Museum.OP 134

Hill S, Catalogue of theArchives ofCharles Townley inThe BritishMuseum. OP 138

Jenkins I, Cleaning and Controversy:The Parthenon Sculptures 1811–1939.OP 146

Oddy A & Smith S (eds), Past Practice –Future Prospects, Conservationconference September 2001. OP 145

Orna-Ornstein J (ed), Development andEvaluation of the HSBC Money Galleryat The British Museum. OP 140 electronic publication available on theOccasional Papers websitewww.thebritishmuseum. ac.uk/ occasionalpapers, or may be printed,on request

Turstees Publications The British Museum Review 2001Caygill M, The British Museum

Reading Room. Reprint

Books by staff produced byother publishersApor E &Wang H (eds), Catalogue of the

Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in theLibrary of the HungarianAcademy ofSciences.Budapest: British Museum& Library of the HungarianAcademy of Sciences, 2002

ClarkT, Dawn of the FloatingWorld:Early Ukiyo-eTreasures from theMuseum of FineArts, Boston,1650-1765. London: RoyalAcademy ofArts, 2001

McCall H, Gods and Goddesses in theDaily Life of theAncient Egyptians.Hodder Wayland, 2002

Meadows A & Shipton K (eds), Money and its Uses in theAncient World,OUP, 2001

Meadows A &Wartenberg U (eds),Coin Hoards, vol IX, Greek Hoards,Royal Numismatic Society, 2001

Redknap M, Edwards N,Youngs S, LaneA & Knight J (eds), Pattern andPurpose in Insular Art. Proceedings ofthe Fourth International Conferenceon Insular Art. Oxbow, 2001

Rudoe J (ed), Cartier, Jewellery Studiesvol 9, 2001

Syson L & Gordon D, Pisanello:Painter tothe Renaissance Court. London:National Gallery Company, 2001

Wang H, Sir Aurel Stein in ‘TheTimes’.London: Saffron Books, 2002

Welsby DA (ed), Life on the Desert Edge.SevenThousandYears of Settlement in the Northern Dongola Reach,SudanArchaeological ResearchSociety Publication no. 7, 2001

Williams J H C, Beyond the Rubicon,Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy,OUP, 2001

Education DepartmentResource PacksAfrica inThe British MuseumAnglo SaxonsJewelledArts of India in theAge of

the MughalsMask and MasqueradeMuseumActivities (booklet for teachers)Roman Britain Gallery ActivitiesVisions from the Golden Land

(travelling exhibition version)

A Level ResourcesClassical Civilization ChecklistsGreekTheatreIronAge/Celtic Europe and BritainMedievalArchaeologyThe Roman Empire

Trails andActivitiesBog Bodies, Skeletons and MummiesPattern and OrderScience and Mummies

Appendix 5Excavation andfieldworkThe British Museuminternational projectsChile, archaeological reconnaissance ofElizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan,Patagonia. Co-Directors: Dr C McEwan, LBorrero (University of Buenos Aires)

Egypt, Nile Delta, excavation at Tell BelimDirector: Dr J Spencer

Egypt, Upper Egyptian sites, epigraphicrecording. Director:WV Davies,Conservator: E Miller, Epigrapher:M Marée

Greenland, fieldwork to document themaking of contemporary Inuit clothing,to complement Arctic clothingcollection, B Paukstat

India,Vidisha (including Sanchi, a unescoworld heritage site), with the School ofOriental andAfrican Studies, Universityof London. Directors: Drs MWillis, DAli

Japan,Aomori City, fieldwork todocument the construction of thenebuta float for exhibition at The BritishMuseum, S Pimpaneau

Jordan,Tell es-Sa‘idiyeh. Director:J NTubb, post-excavation: S Leach

Mexico, preliminary research on theNepean collection from Islas deSacrificios, C Bezanilla

Pakistan, Bannu Archaeological Project,with University College London, thePakistan Heritage Society, Peshawar andthe University of Sydney. Directors:F Khan, J R Knox, K DThomas, P Magee

Romania, research on Romanianmasquerade, S Posey

Turkey, Knidos, under the auspices of theBritish Institute at Ankara and theUniversity of Konya Expedition at Knidos.Director: Dr I D Jenkins

United States, New Mexico andArizona,fieldwork on, and collection of, jewellery-making amongst NativeAmericans,Dr H Lidchi

Vanuatu, fieldwork on clothing in thePacific, Dr L Bolton

The British Museum UK projectsBuckinghamshire, Milton Keynes,emergency excavation of treasure find.Director: Dr J D Hill, Conservator: HBullock

Kent, Herne Bay,The Roman Shipwreckproject. Director: Dr J D Hill, withUniversity of Southampton, supportedby the BMFTownley Group

Hampshire,Winchester, investigation oftheWinchester treasure find spot.Directors: Dr J D Hill,A J Spence

Suffolk, Hoxne Palaeolithic project.Director: NAshton, with UCL andCheltenham and Gloucester College ofHigher Education

Yorkshire,Wetwang, excavation of IronAge chariot burial. Directors: Dr J D Hill,A J Spence, Conservators: H Bullock, SDove, F Shearman

International projects to whichthe Museum contributedAlbania, Butrint, with the University ofEast Anglia. Director: Prof R Hodges,Conservator: P Pearce

Brazil, Saõ Paolo, development ofUnknownAmazon exhibition, Dr CMcEwan with C Barreto ofBrasilConnects and E Neves of theUniversity of Saõ Paolo

Canada, Lethbridge, collaboration todevelop Ancestors exhibition onBlackfoot material, J C H King

China, Beijing, a grant for use by localarchaeologists.Administrator theWenWu Ju, Chinese Government CulturalRelics Bureau,Archaeological section

Denmark,Als,Archaeological Project,with Universities of Cambridge, Durhamand Southampton. Co-director: Dr J D Hill

Egypt,Alexandria, Graeco-RomanMuseum, conservation of stone objectsfor Cleopatra exhibition. Conservators:J Foley and K Birkhölzer

Egypt, ElAmarna, Egypt ExplorationSociety project. Director: B J Kemp

Egypt, Fayoum, with the Seven Pillars ofWisdomTrust and the BritishAcademy.Director: D Rathbone

Egypt, Hierakonopolis withAmericanResearch Centre in Egypt (arce). Director:R Friedman, Conservator: E Miller

Egypt, Memphis, EES project. Directors:D G Jeffreys and J Malek

Egypt, Qasr Ibrim, EES project. Director:P Rose, Conservator: E Miller

Egypt, Sais, EES project. Director:Dr PWilson

Egypt Thebes with the University ofCambridge, epigraphic recording.Director: Dr N Strudwick

Japan, National Museum of Ethnology,Osaka, photography project, H Persaud

Lebanon, Sidon, with the British Embassyin Lebanon, the Lebanese Directorate-General ofAntiquities, the HaririFoundation and the Lebanese BritishFriends of the National Museum.Director: Dr C Doumet Serhal, Specialadviser: Dr J E Curtis

Netherlands, Nasca iconographicresearch project, Dr C McEwan withE de Bock

Russia, Novgorod, with the DepartmentofArchaeology, University ofBournemouth and the Institute ofArchaeology, UCL. Sponsored by the EUHeritageAgency, intas. Directors:Dr D Gaimster, M Brisbane

Solomon Islands, research with Kwara’aechiefs organisation, B Burt withM Kwa’ioloa

SouthAfrica, University of Pretoria,Mapungubwe Project. Director: ProfA Meyer, Conservator: M Hockey

Sudan, survey of the North DongolaReach of the Nile including excavation atKawa. SudanArchaeological ResearchSociety Project. Director: Dr DAWelsby,Conservator: C Heywood

Turkey, Istanbul Survey by Dr K DarkReading University

Vanuatu, project on women’s culturalhistory, Dr L Bolton with M Rodman,YorkUniversity,Toronto; andVanuatu,women’s fieldworker’s workshop withVanuatu Cultural Centre, Dr L Bolton


UK projects to which theMuseum contributedBath, consultation for redevelopmentand redisplay of material in theAmericanMuseum, J C H King

Cambridgeshire, IronAge excavations byUniversity of CambridgeArchaeologicalUnit. Consultant: Dr J D Hill

Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Bryther,excavation of IronAge warrior burial byCornwallArchaeological Unit funded byEnglish Heritage, Dr J D Hill

Hull,Trinity House. ConsultantConservator: J Potter

Kent, Sandwich, excavation of treasurefind, Canterbury ArchaeologicalTrust.Consultant: GVarndell

Leicestershire, Glaston, excavation ofEarly Upper Palaeolithic site, J Cook withUniversity of Leicester ArchaeologicalUnit funded by English Heritage

Leicestershire,‘East Leicestershire’ IronAge coin hoard, Drs JWilliams, R Hobbsand J D Hill with University of LeicesterArchaeological Unit funded by EnglishHeritage. Conservators: M Hockey,F Shearman

London,The British Museum, thearchaeology of the Museum during andafter construction of Great Court.A J Spence with Pre-ConstructArchaeology Ltd

London, Petrie Museum of EgyptianArchaeology, papyrus conservation.Conservator: B Leach

Norfolk, Burnham Market Archaeological Unit

Northamptonshire, Piddington RomanVilla, Upper NeneArchaeological Society.Consultant:T Chamberlain

Suffolk, Sutton Hoo, with SuffolkArchaeological Unit and the NationalTrust. Consultants: LWebster,A Evans,Conservators: SWatkins, H Bullock,Conservation Scientist: DThickett

Wales, St David’s, report on conservationneeds of cathedral collection.Conservator: J Potter

Appendix 6RepresentationStaff serve on the governingbodies,committees,publicationboards of the followingsocieties,organisationsand publicationsAkkadicaAmerican IndianArt MagazineAncient Persia FundAnglo-IsraelArchaeological SocietyAnna PlowdenTrustAntiquityArchaeological Leather GroupArtslineArchaeology AbroadArchaeometryAsia HouseAssociation ofArchaeological Illustrators

and SurveyorsAssociation for the History of Glass LtdBritishAcademy BritishArchaeologicalAssociationBritishArchaeologicalAwards BritishArt Medal SocietyBritishAssociation of Chinese StudiesBritishAssociation of Korean Studies BritishAssociation of Near Eastern

ArchaeologyBritishAutomated Seal CatalogueBritish CouncilBritish-Egyptian Society British Institute in EasternAfricaBritish Institute of Persian StudiesBritish Numismatic SocietyBritish School at Athens British Standards Cambridge Schools Classics ProjectCanterbury ArchaeologicalTrust Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, BedfordCentre for MaritimeArchaeologyCeramic Petrology GroupCHArt: Computers and the History ofArtChartered Institute of Building

Services EngineersCouncil for BritishArchaeology Portable

Antiquities Working GroupDecorativeArts SocietyDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

Advisory Panel on Illicit Trade;Advistory Council on the ExportofWorks ofArt; Sponsored Bodies Education Network

Directors’Conference, NationalMuseums and Galleries

Ditchling Museum, SussexDr Johnson’s HouseTrustEast Anglian Kingdom Survey Education in Museums GroupEgypt Exploration SocietyEnglish HeritageFIDEM (International Federation for

the Medal)French Porcelain SocietyFriends of the Petrie MuseumFreud Museum, LondonGermanArchaeological InstituteGurkha Museum,WinchesterHahn Museum Foundation,

Seoul, KoreaHistorical Metallurgy Society Institute of Conservation ScienceInstitute of FieldArchaeologistsInstitute of Paper ConservationInstitute ofTourist GuidingInternational Council of Museums

Conservation CommitteeInternational Institute for Conservation

of Historic andArtisticWorksInternational Numismatic Commission

International Scientific Committee for the Congress on the Deteriorationand Preservation of Stone

InternationalTime Capsule Society (US)International Ukiyo-e Society,

Overseas DirectorateJewellery Studies Journal ofArchaeological ScienceJournal of the DecorativeArts Society Journal of the History of CollectingLAADELeigh Douglas Memorial FundLondon LibraryLondonTopographical SocietyMAGDAMAGICMaster DrawingsMedieval CeramicsMedieval Pottery Research GroupMedieval Dress andTextile Society Museum DocumentationAssociationMuseums Ethnographers GroupMuseums and Galleries CommissionNADESNationalArt Collections FundNationalTrustNational Gallery, ScientificAdvisory

CommitteeNetwork on Ultra-long-term Cryogenic

Preservation of Biological andEnvironmental Specimens (Japan)

Numismatic ChronicleOriental Ceramic Society Oriental Numismatic SocietyPacific Islands Society of UK and IrelandPalestine Exploration FundPercival David FoundationPhotographic Materials

Conservation GroupPowell-Cotton Museum,

Birchington, KentPortableAntiquities Steering GroupRestauratorRoyalAnthropological InstituteRoyalArchaeological InstituteRoyalAsiatic Society Royal Numismatic Society Royal Society of Chemistry Sassoon Ivories TrustSeminar for Arabian Studies Silk RoadArt andArchaeologySir Frederic Madden SocietySociety for MedievalArchaeology Society for Post-MedievalArchaeologySociety for SouthAsian Studies Society for the Promotion of

Byzantine StudiesSociety ofAntiquaries of LondonSociety of Jewellery Historians Society of MuseumArchaeologistsStanding Conference on

PortableAntiquitiesSudanArchaeological Research Society Sutton Hoo ResearchTrust Textile Conservation CentreUK Foundation for the South PacificUK Institute of ConservationUkiyo-e Society ofAmericaUK NumismaticTrust

Universities,CollegesBodleian Library, Oxford:Asian

Documents Advisory Group;University Library services

Camberwell College, London InstituteDe Montfort University at LincolnFlorida State UniversityQueen’s University, BelfastReinwardt Academy,AmsterdamRoyal College ofArt/Victoria &

Albert MuseumUniversité de ParisUniversity of Cambridge

University of East AngliaUniversity of East LondonUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of LeicesterUniversity of London

Birkbeck CollegeCourtauld InstituteInstitute of EducationKing’s CollegeSchool of Oriental andAfricanStudiesUniversity College: Bartlett SchoolofArchitecture; Institute ofArchaeology

University of ManchesterUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillUniversity of Oxford

Ashmolean MuseumSchool ofArchaeology

University of Reading, Ure MuseumUniversity of SussexWest Dean College, Sussex

Staff also took part in thefollowing British MuseumTraveller Tours TheArchitecture of EnglandBronzes and Bergamot: Explorations

in CalabriaCambodiaChina:Yangtze Gorges CruiseChristmas in LebanonChristmas in PetraChristmas in SicilyCracow andWarsaw: Polish CapitalsDiscover CreteDiscover CyprusDiscover EgyptDiscover JordanDiscover PersiaDiscover SicilyDiscover TunisiaEaster Island:Tapati FestivalEasternTurkeyEgypt Family TourExploring theAmazonGeorgia andArmeniaGladiators and Caesars: Rome andCampaniaGothic Masterpieces of ParisHighlights of South IndiaIstria:Ancient Origins and Medieval

SplendoursKorea: Land of Morning CalmMacedonia andThraceOttomanTurkeyThe Phoenicians in theWestern

MediterraneanA Portrait of JapanReturn to EthiopiaRomanesque BurgundyIn Search of theVikingsThe Search for El Dorado:A South

American Odyssey St Petersburg:Art & PalacesThe Splendours of SyriaThe Sudanese NileSyria: Land of ZenobiaVietnamWest Bengal and Bangladesh


Appendix 7OutstandingacquisitionsMajor financial support received towardsacquisitions included £464,935 fromthe NationalArt Collections Fund,and £350,000 fromThe BritishMuseum Friends.Note: all dates are ad unlessotherwise stated.

Ancient Egypt and SudanThe complete archaeological collectionof the Combined Prehistoric Expeditionto Nubia, directed by Prof FWendorf inthe 1960s, comprising lithics, ceramics,burial remains and all associateddocumentation. Presented by theSouthern Methodist University, Dallas.

A limestone funerary stela of the Scribeof theArmy, Kenro.The disposition of thefigures in the relief is unusual, with theowner shown only in the lower registerand divinities above. 19th Dynasty, endof the reign of Rameses II, c.1230 bc.Formerly in the collection of Roger Pratt(1789–1863). Presented by the NACF.

Sculptured limestone head from a statueof a woman. Old Kingdom, c. 2500–2181bc. Formerly in the Caspar Flemingcollection.

Wooden shabti-figure made for KingAmenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty(1390–1352 bc). Formerly in theHermaneck collection.

Ancient Near EastAn important group of 13 SouthArabianantiquities fromYemen, 2nd century bc –1st century ad. Presented by Mr JonathanHassell.

Coins and Medals385 silver and bronze coins ofAlwar,Awadh, Chatrapur, Dha, Gwailior, Janjira,Jodhpur, Karauli, Mewar,Tonk, theMaratha Confederacy and the LateMughals, from theWiggins collection.

288 bronze English halfpenny andfarthing tokens of issuers inYorkshire,Worcestershire,Wales, Ireland, Scotlandand the Islands, from the Norwebcollection of 17th-century tokens.

Silver drachm of Seleucus I, King of Syria,mint of Babylon.

130 silver pennies and sterling imitationsfrom England, Scotland, Ireland andcontinental issuers, from the Leconfield,Yorkshire,Treasure, deposited in c. 1245.

62 silver and 42 bronze coins from theItteringham, NorfolkTreasure.

The Deal, Kent,Treasure: 191 base-silvercoins of Henry VIII and EdwardVI, fromthe period of the Great Debasement,deposited February to May 1549, withtheir pot and bag containers.

EthnographyIroquoian belt ladle of maple in the formof a man, drinking from a barrel, carvedover a turtle. northeastern NorthAmerica, 17th or 18th centuries.Purchased with the assistance of theNACF and theAmerican Friends ofThe British Museum.

A collection of jewellery, from the formerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia,Bulgaria,Turkey and possibly Serbia.

Four pen and wash drawings of Nativeartefacts from the Northwest Coast ofAmerica c. 1790.

An embroidered chemise from theSkopska Crna Gora Mountains, FormerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia, late19th–early 20th century.

Tuscarora beaded cushion tocommemorate 11 September 2001.

A chair made from amnestiedAK 47riffles collected after the end of the civilwar in Mozambique.

Greek and RomanAntiquitiesThe ‘Jennings Dog’, marble statue of aMolossian hound, Roman, 2ndcentury(?); copy of a Hellenistic original(presumably in bronze). Purchased withthe aid of the HLF, NACF, BMF, MrsBarbara Fleischman, Mr and Mrs FrankLadd, and a public appeal.

The BielThrone, Roman wedge-shapedmarble throne from the prohedria of thePanathenaic stadium at Athens, as builtby Herodes Attikos in 140–143.

The Braganza Brooch, gold fibula of long-footed form decorated with the figure ofa naked warrior wearing a Celtic helmetand carrying a Celtic shield. Hellenistic,probably made in the 3rd century bc by aGreek jeweller for a Celtic client on theSpanish peninsula. Purchased with theaid of the HLF, NACF, BMF and Dr RoyLennox and Ms JoanWeberman.

JapaneseAntiquities24 paintings and calligraphies, mountedon a pair of six-fold screens; ink andcolour on paper, various sizes. Paintingsand calligraphies range in date from late18th century to 1868.

Giant Fan painted with scenes ofArashiyama, Kinkaku-ji and Byodo-in(front), said to be by TokumiYusen andBenkei and Ushiwaka-maru on GojoBridge (back) said to be by TokumiYusenand Kinoshita Hironobu ?II. Ink andcolours on silk attached to paper, madein 1893. Given by Matsuko Ishizumi, KanjiIshizumi and Naomi Ishizumi.

Portable shrine containing the sanjuban-shin deities, late Edo period. Purchasedwith assistance from the Brooke SewellFund.

Medieval and Modern EuropeAnglo-Saxon 7th-century silver-giltbearded figure, wearing a cap and beltedknee-length trousers; the trousers, handsand face are all gilded; a suspension loopis attached to the cap. Purchased withthe aid of the NACF and BMF.

Engraved carnelian intaglio portrait ofCapability Brown by Edward Burch.English, c. 1770. Mounted in a later goldbracelet. Given by Rosalind and MelanieMusman, in memory of Chloe Musman,née Holland, a direct descendant ofCapability Brown.

Blue cut-glass jug. English, early 18thcentury.

A group of 20th-century jewelleryincluding items by Cartier, Bulgari andothers. Given anonymously.

Lacquered silver bracelet by G Sandoz.Paris, 1926–8.

OrientalAntiquitiesMountain Landscape, Hanging scroll, inkand colours on silk. Korea, ChosonDynasty, early 16th century. Purchasedwith assistance from the Hahn Kwang-hoPurchase Fund.

A collection of 50 pieces of modernChinese calligraphy. Given by GordonBarrass and Kristen Lippincott.

The Prof Samuel Eilenberg bequest of asouth Indian (c. 10th century) bronzetrident on a stand and a bronze image ofSamdandar (south India, 12th century).

A collection of Indian jewellery andmemorabilia of the Mughal periodand later. Given anonymously.

A Mughal NoblemanVisits Two Sheikhs,India, Deccan, late 17th century, opaquewatercolour and gold on paper.Purchased with assistance from theBrooke Sewell Fund.

Children ofWar, Children of Peace by LeilaShawa. Modern Palestine. Silkscreen oncanvas. Purchased with assistance fromthe Brooke Sewell Fund andcontributions from Mrs Mona al-Khatiband Mr Ghazi I Shaker.

Prehistory and Early EuropeTheWinchester Hoard of late IronAgegold jewellery consisting of 2 necklacetorcs, 2 bracelets, and 2 paired fibulae.1st century bc.Treasure find, purchasedwith the aid of the NACF, NHMFand BMF.

Finds from the IronAge chariot burialexcavated by The British Museum atWetwang, East Yorkshire in 2001.Purchased with the aid of Hogg theBuilder ofYork.

Fragment of Middle BronzeAge textileexcavated by the CambridgeArchaeological Unit at Over,Cambridgeshire. Purchased with the aidofAggregates.

6,000 flint artifacts from Palaeolithicexcavations at Red Barns, Hampshire.Purchased with the aid of GudgeonDevelopment Ltd.

Roman silver rings and cosmetic sets,part of a Roman coin hoard found atItteringham, Norfolk.

Prints and DrawingsAndries Both (1612–42), The SuccessfulPainter, black chalk on vellum.A pair to adrawing that has been in the collectionsince 1836. Purchased with the aid of thePatrons of Old Master Drawings.

Richard Newton (1777–98), After Mass,watercolour, and a collection of 36satirical prints by Newton. Purchasedwith the aid of the BMF and the Friendsof Prints and Drawings.

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), NaturaMorta a Grandi Segni, etching 1931.Purchased from an anonymous donation.

Cecil Collins (1908–89), Portrait ofElizabeth (the artist’s wife) pencil 1932.Bequeathed by the sitter through theNACF together with 33 other drawingsand 25 prints.

Richard Hamilton (b. 1922), 8 printsrelating to James Joyce’s Ulysses,1982–98. Presented by the artist.

Michael Mazur (b. 1935), The Inferno ofDante, 41 etchings 1997–2000.Presented by Patricia Hagan through theAmerican Friends ofThe British Museum.