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The British Museum is a museum of ideas rather than of art, and no other museum in the world has that task.
Drawn from what Irving Finkel said
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It is actually a special place because you cannot point to another museum in the world with the same task. For example, the Louvre is basically a museum of art, basically a museum of art, not a museum of ideas.
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