Sloan, Kim

The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past, and other civilizations. The British Museum, founded in 1753 as the world´s first public museum, epitomized the age´s dream of a rational universe.
In this lavishly illustrated volume, published on the commemoration of the British Museum´s 250th anniversary, the museum´s centrality to the Enlightenment enterprise is explored through the stunning breadth and variety of its early collections, including many now housed in separate museums such as the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait gallery.

304 pages with very many illustrations, mostly in colour, hardcover with jacket

The British Museum 2003