[16], Room in the British Museum which was formerly the reading room of the British Library, Inside the Reading Room, before its conversion to an exhibition space, A plan of the desks and book storage in the room, An illustration of the old book stacks in the museum before their removal, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Invitation to a private view of the Round Reading Room, "BBC News | Entertainment | Facelift for British Museum's reading room", "BM confirms closure of Paul Hamlyn library | Museums Association", "British Museum - The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army", "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, British Museum, London", "British Museum - Archive: Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings", Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III, Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa, Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions, Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps, Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Museum_Reading_Room&oldid=972309687, 1857 establishments in the United Kingdom, Buildings and structures completed in 1857, Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from January 2019, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army, Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisations, Drawing in silver and gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, This page was last edited on 11 August 2020, at 10:57. Requests not processed may also be cancelled. What will become of it we wonder. Members of the general public can only get a reader’s pass if they need something that is not available anywhere else. The double arched windows are the giveaway. If you're unable to find the information on Collection online, please fill in the. This is the grandest Literary & Scientific institution (not for instruction) in the world. Please delay any requests for object study as we are not currently able to accommodate these. For more information on how we use cookies and how to manage cookies, please follow the 'Read more' link, otherwise select 'Accept and close'. We are gradually increasing capacity and opening additional Reading Rooms to give more researchers the opportunity to visit. Gloves must be worn to handle some types of material. Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film Blackmail (1929).