June 14, 2023
76. Things to do in London: The British Museum
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RSS Feed In this week's adventure, we embark on a journey through time and culture as we visit one of the world's most renowned institutions, the British Museum.
Start with the museum's stunning Great Court, where the grandeur of the architecture alone is a sight to behold. Then move from one exhibit to another, delve into the secrets of ancient Egypt, where mummies and pharaohs come to life through intricate hieroglyphics and preserved relics.
Next, venture into the intriguing world of Ancient Greece and Rome, marveling at the statues, pottery, and treasures that reveal the extraordinary achievements of these classical civilizations.
From the magnificent Rosetta Stone to the mysterious Easter Island statues, each piece tells a unique story and reflects the rich tapestry of human history.
But it's not all about ancient civilizations. The British Museum also houses extensive collections from various periods, including the medieval and Renaissance eras. Our hosts delve into the fascinating world of knights, kings, and queens, and examine exquisite works of art that capture the beauty and innovation of these times.
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The Shark Deck Johnny mc and travel
is back this week. One more thing
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to Do in London. On a
lot of the list I've seen, this
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is rated number one and it has
nothing to do with the Royals. It
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is the British Museum, Situating the
vibrant heart of London. The British Museum
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stands as a testament to the collective
heritage of humanity. With its extensive collection
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00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:29.480
spanning millions of years of history,
this renowned institution asn't throw all visitors from
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00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:34.479
across the globe. From the iconic
Rosetta Stone to the mesmerizing Egyptian mummies,
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00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.880
each exhibit breeds the life and of
the tales of ancient civilizations and extraordinary accomplishments
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00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.840
of our ancestors. I loved the
British Museum. When I went, I
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00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.719
had no idea what to expect.
I was on the baseball tour that I
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00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.799
sold you about in a recent episode
of My Buddy Dan. He was like,
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We're going to the British Museum,
and I went, okay, sure.
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Now. The first thing that caught
my eye is you walk in and
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you're in the Great Court, which
is I'll do this from memory. Then
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I'll read proper copy to you,
like a big glass ceiling, so you're
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inside, but you feel like you're
outside, if that makes any sense.
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The concept of the Great Dome is
based on the roof of the Reichstag in
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Berlin. The glass and steel roof
is made from a three two hundred and
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twelve pains of glass, no.
Two of which are the same. It
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opened up in December of two thousand. The redesign made the museum forty percent
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bigger for the first time in more
than one hundred and fifty years. The
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new two acre Great Court gave visitors
the chance to move freely around the main
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floor of the museum. It provided
two new gallery spaces, the Scenesbury Galleries,
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housing a display of objects from the
museum's Africa collection, and the Welcome
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Trust Gallery, home to a series
of long term cross cultural thematic exhibitions.
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But let's get to it. Why
am I going there? John? What
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do I want to say? Number
One? The Rosetta Stone. You've heard
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of this, Yes, the key
that unlocked ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Rosetta
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Stone once part of a larger stone
slab. It's inscribed with a decree carved
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into it. The decree in itself
is not particularly unusual, but it is
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written in three types of writing hieroglyphics, the second the native Egyptian script and
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third ancient Greek, which meant that
experts could use it to decipher hieroglyphics that
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unlocked the world of ancient Egypt.
Next up the Sophilos vase. The spectacular
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ancient Greek bowl and stand were made
to hold wine and mixed with water for
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a feast. They were made in
Athens around five eighty BC. The vessel
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takes its name from the artist who
made it, gets inscribed with the words
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Sophilos made made. The vases decorated
with scenes from Greek myth, including the
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wedding of plais and thesis. They
are the parents of the hero Achilles.
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Next up the Parthenon sculptures. These
date back to Athens four thirty eight to
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four thirty two BC. These ancient
Greek sculptures adorned the Parthenon. Next up,
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Grayson Perry is the Tomb of the
Unknown Craftsmen. This artwork on temporary
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display was made by British Museum trustee
and Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry.
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The piece and iron ships sailing into
the Afterlife is a memorial to all those
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unnamed skilled individuals, men and women
who have made the beautiful objects featured in
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the museum. Number five the Crouching
Venus from the second century a D.
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A Roman version of a much earlier
Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite or Venus
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to the Romans. The Greek marble
or bronze originals now lost was maybe between
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two hundred and one hundred BC.
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love and
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has often shown accompanied by Eros,
the god of love. Here the sculpture
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makes the viewer of voyeur surprising the
goddess as she Baits Number six the bust
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of Ramses the Great, leaning an
incredible seven and a half tons. The
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bust was once part of a larger
statue was sat in the Ramesseum, a
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temple in Phoebes. Its decoration celebrated
his military achievements and his close association with
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the creator god amun Ra. Seven
is the ife Head, a brass head
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cast using the lost wax technique,
a little under life size and a naturalistic
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style. It's probably around six hundred
years old, and it is believed to
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depict a sacred king of the West
African Kingdom of Ife. Today that would
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be in Nigeria except the Tree of
Life, a sculpture made for the museum
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in two thousand four. In the
aftermath of the arms struggle for independence from
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Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique entered a
period of civil war. In nineteen ninety
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two, a scheme cul transforming arms
into tools was set up to encourage Mozambecans
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to exchange weapons for other goods.
This sculpture is made from weapons collected by
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that program. It includes chopped up
ak forty seven rifles, pistols, and
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rocket propelled grenade launchers. Number nine
is the Acan drum, made of wood
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with an animal skinhead, made in
Ghana. Found in Virginia in the eighteenth
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century, This wooden drum is the
earliest African American object in the British Museum.
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Was collected in Virginia, then a
British colony. Previously they thought it
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was created by indigenous North Americans,
and then later they now believe that it
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was taken to Virginia on a slave
ship. Number ten Aztec serpent created what
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is now Mexico. This extraordinary double
headed serpent sculpture made of about two thousand
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pieces of turquoise over a wooden base. Number eleven is their Pianazi vase.
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You'll find that in room one,
two point seven meters tall, was constructed
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in the sevente hundreds from a great
number of classical fragments and modern editions.
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The vase was crafted by Piranazi from
ancient fragments reportedly found at the Pantanello,
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a site on the grounds of the
villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Pieranassi
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restored the fragments and incorporated them into
highly decorative pastiches. Number twelve is the
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Library of Exile and installation by British
artist and writer Edmund de Waal, housing
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more than two thousand books in translation
written by exiled authors. Thirteen is the
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Haita house pole, a curved cedar
wood totem pole reaching up towards the glass
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sailing of the Great Court. What
was made around eighteen fifty one, stood
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at the front of a clanhouse in
the village of Kyang, British Columbia.
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In Room twenty four, You're fine
howa Akananaya's statue. The statue comes from
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Eastern Island, one of a number
of statues for which the island is famous,
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which date two around one to twelve
hundred eight. As part of the
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new Museum experience, they've created a
one way route around the ground floor galleries
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that lets you safely enjoy incredible objects
from cultures around the world, as well
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as more than nine thousand objects from
the collection on display. You can also
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see two contemporary art installations along the
route, those being The Tomb of the
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Unknown and Dwall's Library of Exile.
Plus there's a new object trail exploring the
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relationship between collecting and Empire. The
British Museum's major summer exhibit for this summer
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twenty twenty three is Luxury and Power
showcasing hundreds of rare and precious artifacts from
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the Middle East and ancient Greece,
featuring gold, silver and glass of exceptional
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quality. The exhibition will examine how
the Kingdom of Persia used as precious items
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as markers of authority, shaping the
concept of luxury on an unimaginable scale.
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That's going on now through August.
Some other things going on in London in
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this summer at the National Gallery.
After Impressionism Inventing Modern Art. This is
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the most anticipated art exhibition of twenty
twenty three. It'll go through August.
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It'll explore the thirty year period from
eighteen eighty six to nineteen fourteen, which
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shattered artistic standards and gave birth to
modern art. The exhibition focuses on the
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achievements of the three main influences of
the period, Sezanne, then Go and
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Go Again, and the entourage of
artist who gravitated around them in Paris,
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Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna. That runs until August thirteenth of the
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National Gallery and at the Natural History
Museum. Titanosaur Life as the Biggest Dinosaur
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a reconstruction of a Petoga's heighten a
Myorum skeleton. I'm not sure I got
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that right, but giant dinosaur a
gigantic species of the Titanosaur family discovered in
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twenty fourteen. So much to do. Next week I'll bring it back to
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the States and we're gonna hit the
Zoo in Chicago. You can follow the
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The Shark Deck Johnny mc and travel
is back this week. One more thing
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to Do in London. On a
lot of the list I've seen, this
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is rated number one and it has
nothing to do with the Royals. It
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is the British Museum, Situating the
vibrant heart of London. The British Museum
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stands as a testament to the collective
heritage of humanity. With its extensive collection
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00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:29.480
spanning millions of years of history,
this renowned institution asn't throw all visitors from
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across the globe. From the iconic
Rosetta Stone to the mesmerizing Egyptian mummies,
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00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.880
each exhibit breeds the life and of
the tales of ancient civilizations and extraordinary accomplishments
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00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.840
of our ancestors. I loved the
British Museum. When I went, I
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00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.719
had no idea what to expect.
I was on the baseball tour that I
11
00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.799
sold you about in a recent episode
of My Buddy Dan. He was like,
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00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:49.799
We're going to the British Museum,
and I went, okay, sure.
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Now. The first thing that caught
my eye is you walk in and
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you're in the Great Court, which
is I'll do this from memory. Then
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I'll read proper copy to you,
like a big glass ceiling, so you're
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inside, but you feel like you're
outside, if that makes any sense.
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The concept of the Great Dome is
based on the roof of the Reichstag in
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Berlin. The glass and steel roof
is made from a three two hundred and
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twelve pains of glass, no.
Two of which are the same. It
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opened up in December of two thousand. The redesign made the museum forty percent
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bigger for the first time in more
than one hundred and fifty years. The
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new two acre Great Court gave visitors
the chance to move freely around the main
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00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:30.120
floor of the museum. It provided
two new gallery spaces, the Scenesbury Galleries,
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00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.920
housing a display of objects from the
museum's Africa collection, and the Welcome
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Trust Gallery, home to a series
of long term cross cultural thematic exhibitions.
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But let's get to it. Why
am I going there? John? What
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do I want to say? Number
One? The Rosetta Stone. You've heard
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of this, Yes, the key
that unlocked ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Rosetta
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Stone once part of a larger stone
slab. It's inscribed with a decree carved
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into it. The decree in itself
is not particularly unusual, but it is
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written in three types of writing hieroglyphics, the second the native Egyptian script and
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third ancient Greek, which meant that
experts could use it to decipher hieroglyphics that
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unlocked the world of ancient Egypt.
Next up the Sophilos vase. The spectacular
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ancient Greek bowl and stand were made
to hold wine and mixed with water for
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a feast. They were made in
Athens around five eighty BC. The vessel
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takes its name from the artist who
made it, gets inscribed with the words
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Sophilos made made. The vases decorated
with scenes from Greek myth, including the
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wedding of plais and thesis. They
are the parents of the hero Achilles.
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Next up the Parthenon sculptures. These
date back to Athens four thirty eight to
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four thirty two BC. These ancient
Greek sculptures adorned the Parthenon. Next up,
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Grayson Perry is the Tomb of the
Unknown Craftsmen. This artwork on temporary
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display was made by British Museum trustee
and Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry.
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The piece and iron ships sailing into
the Afterlife is a memorial to all those
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unnamed skilled individuals, men and women
who have made the beautiful objects featured in
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the museum. Number five the Crouching
Venus from the second century a D.
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A Roman version of a much earlier
Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite or Venus
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to the Romans. The Greek marble
or bronze originals now lost was maybe between
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two hundred and one hundred BC.
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love and
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has often shown accompanied by Eros,
the god of love. Here the sculpture
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makes the viewer of voyeur surprising the
goddess as she Baits Number six the bust
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of Ramses the Great, leaning an
incredible seven and a half tons. The
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bust was once part of a larger
statue was sat in the Ramesseum, a
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00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.960
temple in Phoebes. Its decoration celebrated
his military achievements and his close association with
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00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.080
the creator god amun Ra. Seven
is the ife Head, a brass head
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00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:43.360
cast using the lost wax technique,
a little under life size and a naturalistic
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00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.759
style. It's probably around six hundred
years old, and it is believed to
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depict a sacred king of the West
African Kingdom of Ife. Today that would
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be in Nigeria except the Tree of
Life, a sculpture made for the museum
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in two thousand four. In the
aftermath of the arms struggle for independence from
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Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique entered a
period of civil war. In nineteen ninety
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00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.199
two, a scheme cul transforming arms
into tools was set up to encourage Mozambecans
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00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:14.599
to exchange weapons for other goods.
This sculpture is made from weapons collected by
63
00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.560
that program. It includes chopped up
ak forty seven rifles, pistols, and
64
00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.920
rocket propelled grenade launchers. Number nine
is the Acan drum, made of wood
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00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.639
with an animal skinhead, made in
Ghana. Found in Virginia in the eighteenth
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00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.759
century, This wooden drum is the
earliest African American object in the British Museum.
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00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.519
Was collected in Virginia, then a
British colony. Previously they thought it
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00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:40.399
was created by indigenous North Americans,
and then later they now believe that it
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00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:45.279
was taken to Virginia on a slave
ship. Number ten Aztec serpent created what
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00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.240
is now Mexico. This extraordinary double
headed serpent sculpture made of about two thousand
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00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:55.439
pieces of turquoise over a wooden base. Number eleven is their Pianazi vase.
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You'll find that in room one,
two point seven meters tall, was constructed
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in the sevente hundreds from a great
number of classical fragments and modern editions.
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The vase was crafted by Piranazi from
ancient fragments reportedly found at the Pantanello,
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a site on the grounds of the
villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Pieranassi
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restored the fragments and incorporated them into
highly decorative pastiches. Number twelve is the
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Library of Exile and installation by British
artist and writer Edmund de Waal, housing
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more than two thousand books in translation
written by exiled authors. Thirteen is the
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Haita house pole, a curved cedar
wood totem pole reaching up towards the glass
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sailing of the Great Court. What
was made around eighteen fifty one, stood
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at the front of a clanhouse in
the village of Kyang, British Columbia.
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In Room twenty four, You're fine
howa Akananaya's statue. The statue comes from
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Eastern Island, one of a number
of statues for which the island is famous,
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which date two around one to twelve
hundred eight. As part of the
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new Museum experience, they've created a
one way route around the ground floor galleries
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that lets you safely enjoy incredible objects
from cultures around the world, as well
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as more than nine thousand objects from
the collection on display. You can also
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see two contemporary art installations along the
route, those being The Tomb of the
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Unknown and Dwall's Library of Exile.
Plus there's a new object trail exploring the
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relationship between collecting and Empire. The
British Museum's major summer exhibit for this summer
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twenty twenty three is Luxury and Power
showcasing hundreds of rare and precious artifacts from
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the Middle East and ancient Greece,
featuring gold, silver and glass of exceptional
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quality. The exhibition will examine how
the Kingdom of Persia used as precious items
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as markers of authority, shaping the
concept of luxury on an unimaginable scale.
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That's going on now through August.
Some other things going on in London in
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this summer at the National Gallery.
After Impressionism Inventing Modern Art. This is
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the most anticipated art exhibition of twenty
twenty three. It'll go through August.
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It'll explore the thirty year period from
eighteen eighty six to nineteen fourteen, which
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shattered artistic standards and gave birth to
modern art. The exhibition focuses on the
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achievements of the three main influences of
the period, Sezanne, then Go and
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Go Again, and the entourage of
artist who gravitated around them in Paris,
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Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna. That runs until August thirteenth of the
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National Gallery and at the Natural History
Museum. Titanosaur Life as the Biggest Dinosaur
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a reconstruction of a Petoga's heighten a
Myorum skeleton. I'm not sure I got
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that right, but giant dinosaur a
gigantic species of the Titanosaur family discovered in
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twenty fourteen. So much to do. Next week I'll bring it back to
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the States and we're gonna hit the
Zoo in Chicago. You can follow the
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