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c) Western European art
d) Babylonian art
5. Which of the following statements is true?
a) Since its opening in 1764, the museum is adding more art

works every year.
b) The museum has three million items basically from the

Stone Age.
c) The museum occupies 120 rooms in five buildings.
d) Catherine the great was known for her hatred toward art

and artists.

5. The British Museum
Britain’s largest museum looks after a collection of archaeology
and ethnography—more than eight million objects ranging from
prehistoric bones to chunks of Athens’ Parthenon, from whole
Assyrian palace rooms to exquisite gold jewels.
The Museum houses many pieces of world art and artifacts and
is free to all visitors. The main attraction is the Egyptian gallery
which boasts the world’s second finest collection of Egyptian
antiquities outside Egypt, including the Rosetta Stone, carved in
196 B.C. Established in 1753 and based largely on the collections

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