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    The British Museum was established in 1753 based on physician Sir Hans Sloane's collections, first opened to the public in 1759 and has expanded over 250 years through British colonization, hosting the British Library until 1997 and owning disputed objects like the Elgin Marbles and Rosetta Stone.

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    The British Museum was established in 1753 based on physician Sir Hans Sloane's collections, first opened to the public in 1759 and has expanded over 250 years through British colonization, hosting the British Library until 1997 and owning disputed objects like the Elgin Marbles and Rosetta Stone.

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    The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything. Sloane's collection, while including a vast miscellany of objects, tended to reflect his scientific interests.[16] The addition of the

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    The British Museum was established in 1753 based on physician Sir Hans Sloane's collections, first opened to the public in 1759 and has expanded over 250 years through British colonization, hosting the British Library until 1997 and owning disputed objects like the Elgin Marbles and Rosetta Stone.

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    The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the

    Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.[5] It first opened to the public in
    1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. Its expansion over the
    following 250 years was largely a result of expanding British colonisation and has
    resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the
    Natural History Museum in 1881.

    In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the
    British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the
    same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-
    departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media
    and Sport, and as with all national museums in the UK it charges no admission fee,
    except for loan exhibitions.[6]

    Its ownership of some of its most famous objects originating in other countries is
    disputed and remains the subject of international controversy, most notably in the
    case of the Elgin Marbles[7] of Greece and the Rosetta Stone[8] of Egypt.

    The museum was closed 208 days in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless,
    it received 1,275,466 visitors, ranking it fifth on the List of most-visited art
    museums in the world.[9]

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