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*''Japanese'': 大英博物館 ''(Daiei hakubutsukan)''

*''Japanese'': 大英博物館 ''(Daiei hakubutsukan)''

The British Museum is one of the world's oldest and most extensive encyclopedic museums of world cultures.  

The British Museum is one of the world's oldest and most extensive encyclopedic museums of world cultures.  

The museum, located in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London, was founded in [[1753]] and began with a collection of 71,000 items bequeathed to the nation by Sir Hans Sloane, who died that same year. The newly-founded Museum also acquired that same year the personal collection of Chinese and Japanese prints of [[Dutch East India Company]] medical officer [[Engelbert Kaempfer]], who had resided in [[Nagasaki]] in [[1690]]-[[1692]]. Portions of Sloane's collection were later split off and form the core of the collections of the [[British Library]] and National Museum of Natural History, London.

The museum, located in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London, was founded in [[1753]] and began with a collection of 71,000 items bequeathed to the nation by Sir Hans Sloane, who died that same year. The newly-founded Museum also acquired that same year the personal collection of Chinese and Japanese prints of [[Dutch East India Company]] medical officer [[Engelbert Kaempfer]], who had resided in [[Nagasaki]] in [[1690]]-[[1692]]. Portions of Sloane's collection were later split off and form the core of the collections of the [[British Library]] and National Museum of Natural History, London.