| 词条 | The British Museum Friends |
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|name = The British Museum Friends |image = BFM-logo.jpg |size = 160 |abbreviation = BMF |motto = |formation = 1968 |extinction = |type = Charity |status = |purpose = Supports the British Museum with grants for acquisitions, and assists with research programmes, conservation, and new technologies throughout the Museum. |headquarters = |location = British Museum |region_served = England and Wales |membership = 48,000 (March 2013) |language = |leader_title = |leader_name = |main_organ = |parent_organisation = British Museum |affiliations = |num_staff = |num_volunteers = |budget = |website = https://www.britishmuseum.org/join_in.aspx |remarks = Current Chairman: David Norgrove }}The British Museum Friends (BMF) is a registered charitable organisation in the UK with close links to the British Museum, and was set up in 1968. It provides funding in the form of grants to the British Museum in order to support the educational objectives of the Museum including to allow the Museum to acquire new items and collections,[1] and assists with financing research programmes, conservation, and new technologies throughout the Museum.[2][3] AcquisitionsAcquisitions supported by the BMF include the Nimrud Ivories, the Warren Cup,[4] the Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant,[5][6] the Burney Relief,[7] a Mycenaean terracotta group of three dancers in a ring, the gold mancus of Coenwulf,[8][9] the Ringlemere Cup, the Vale of York Hoard[10] and two very rare gold coins of the Roman Emperor Carausius found in the North Midlands in 2007.[11][12] Other acquisitions funded in whole or in part by the Friends during 2008–9 include the Chettle Park Hoard and twelve Greek papyri from Roman Egypt from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.[13][14] American Friends of the British MuseumThe American Friends of the British Museum (AFBM) was set up in 1989 as a not-for-profit organisation whose principal purpose is raising awareness and financial support for the British Museum.[15] Since its founding, American Friends of the British Museum has contributed over $30 million to support a variety of projects at the British Museum, including:
See also
References1. ^{{cite journal|format=PDF|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/annualreview0204.pdf|title=BMF acquisitions trail}} 2. ^[https://www.britishmuseum.org/join_in/membership.aspx?gclid=CNzP7JK5uJ0CFVtm4wodiWObkw The British Museum Friends website] 3. ^'Electron microscopes assist work at British Museum' Laboratory Talk website 28 May 2008 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090516235911/http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/hit/hit158.html |date=16 May 2009 }} 4. ^[https://www.britishmuseum.org/join_in/membership/how_your_money_helps.aspx 'Recent Acquisitions' British Museum website] 5. ^The Astrolabe on Curator and Collector August 2008 6. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2474799/Unique-medieval-astrolabe-saved-by-the-British-Museum.html 'Unique medieval astrolabe saved by the British Museum' The Daily Telegraph 30 July 2008] 7. ^'British Museum's new acquisition' History Today 11 March 2003 8. ^[https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/g/gold_mancus_of_coenwulf.aspx 'Gold mancus of Coenwulf' on the British Museum website] 9. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culturevultureblog/2006/feb/08/struckgold Purchase of the Coenwulf coin in The Guardian] 10. ^Vale of York Hoard on Culture 24 website 11. ^BMF on artdaily.org 12. ^'Rare Roman coins acquired for British Museum and Derby with Art Fund help' on Art Fund website 13. ^[https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/TAR08-09.pdf The British Museum Reports and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2009] 14. ^The British Museum Friends Annual Review to 31 March 2009 15. ^Website of the American Friends of the British Museum 16. ^Mission of the AFBM {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517010559/http://www.afbm.org/mission.html |date=17 May 2009 }} External links
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