| Museum Details |
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| Name: | The British Museum, The Mexican Gallery |
| Street Address: | Great Russel St |
| City: | London |
| State: | |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Zipcode: | WC1B 3DG |
| Telephone: | 44-020-7-323-8000 44-020-7-323-8299 |
| Fax: | 44-020-7-323-8616 |
| Email: | information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk |
| Website: | http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk |
| Staff Contacts: | Dir: Neil MacGregor;
Cur (Ethn): J. Mack;
Dept of Ethn: 020-7-323-8041, ethnography@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk |
| Quality of Online Info: | Site map; Information on cultures and departments; General Department Contact |
| Size: | Large |
| Focus: | Carved lintels, stone sculpture, ornament, jades, vases, pectorals; Objects from Alfred Maudslay: 8 door lintels from Yaxchilan and 9 sculptures from Copan; Objects from Thomas Gann; stelae from Belize; Highlights: Yaxchilan lintels 15-17, 24, 25, 35, 41; and Late Classic artifacts: stone bust of Maize God, stone head from Copan, Spondylus ornament and jade plaques |
| Source: | Grube, Nikolai, ed. Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest. Cologne: Konemann, 2000. 452, 453. Schulze, Marco and Boris Eggers, eds. Museums of the World. 11th Rev. and Enl. ed. Volume 2.
Handbook of International Documentation and Information Series. Volume 16.
Muchen: K.G. Saur, 2004. 661. U of Utah Libraries.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
http://www.wayeb.org/resourcescollections.htm |