British Museum

Year

1852

Architect

Robert Smirke Robert Smirke

Type

building

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Robert Smirke's quadrangular Greek Revival museum, built between 1823 and 1852 to house the rapidly expanding national collection that had outgrown the original Montagu House on the same site. The plan is a hollow rectangle of four ranges a …

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