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The Enlightenment Gallery in the British Museum

British Museum · Bloomsbury

Enlightenment Gallery

Now showingPermanent collection·Free

Room 1 recreates the original 18th-century museum: a cabinet of curiosity on a grand scale, revealing how the Enlightenment shaped how we collect and classify the world.

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