FREE A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS PDF Neil MacGregor | 640 pages | 01 Dec 2012 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780241951774 | English | London, United Kingdom A History Of The World In Objects pdf Free Download - We use cookies to make our website work more efficiently, to provide you with more personalised services or advertising to you, and to analyse traffic on our website. For more information on how we use cookies and how to manage cookies, please follow the 'Read more' link, otherwise select 'Accept and close'. Please note only certain galleries on the Lower and Ground floors A History of the World in 100 Objects open to visitors. Our trails will take you on fascinating tours, highlighting the most popular objects on display and covering a variety of themes. Skip to main content Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience. Read more about our cookie policy Accept and close the cookie policy. Object trails. The Royal Game of Ur on Collection online. You are in the Visit section Home Visit Object trails. Share the page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Visiting information Plan your visit. View the Museum map. Choose from a selection of object trails around the Museum. One hour at the Museum This trail will take you on a whirlwind tour of the history of the world. Collecting and empire trail Learn how colonial relationships shaped the British Museum's collection. Twelve objects to see with children From ancient armour to mummies, travel back in time on this captivating trail. Three hours at the A History of the World in 100 Objects This three-hour trail showcases the most popular objects on display. Death, memory, meaning This trail examines the stories behind grave goods found in British prehistoric graves. You may also be interested in. Audio guide This guide will help you make the most of your visit — available in 10 languages. Out-of-hours tours Enjoy exclusive out-of-hours tours before the gates open to the public, including spotlights on Egypt, Greece and China. Object trails | British Museum In minute presentations broadcast on weekdays on Radio 4MacGregor used objects of ancient art, industry, technology and arms, all of which are in the British Museum's collections, as an introduction to parts of human history. The series, four years in planning, began on 18 January and was broadcast over 20 weeks. The programme series, described as "a landmark project", [6] is billed as 'A history of humanity' told through a hundred objects from all over the world in the British Museum's collection. In these programmes, I'm travelling back in time, and across the globe, to see how we humans over 2 million years have shaped our world and been shaped by it, and I'm going to tell this story exclusively through the things that humans have made: all sorts of things, carefully designed, and then either admired and preserved, or used, broken and thrown away. I've chosen just a hundred objects from different points on our journey, from a cooking pot to a golden galleon, from a Stone Age tool to a credit card. Telling history through things, whether it's an Egyptian mummy or a credit card, is what museums are for, and because the British Museum has collected things from all over the globe, it's not a bad place to try to tell a world history. Of course, it can only be "a" history of the world, not "the" history. When people come to the museum they choose their own objects and make their own journey round the world and through time, but I think what they will find is that their own histories quickly intersect with everybody else's, and when that happens, you no longer have a history of a particular people or nation, but a story of endless connections. Accompanying the series is a website, described by The Guardian as "even more ambitious [than the radio series itself] that encourages users to submit items of their own for a place in world history", along with much interactive content, detailed information on all the objects featured in the radio programmes and links to other museum collections across the UK. The museum has adapted exhibitions for the series by including additional easily identifiable plaques for the objects with text based on the programme and adding a section to the gallery maps showing the location and numbers of the objects. The first part of the series was broadcast on weekdays over six weeks between 18 January and 26 February After a short break, the series returned with the seventh week being broadcast in the week beginning 17 May Maev Kennedy of The Guardian described the programme as "a broadcasting phenomenon", while Tim Davie, head of music and audio at BBC radio, commented that "the results have been nothing short of stunning", exceeding the BBC's wildest hopes for the A History of the World in 100 Objects. At the time of the writing of Kennedy's article, just before the start of the last week of the series, the radio broadcasts regularly had up to four million listeners, while the podcast downloads had totalled 10, Of these, just over half, 5. In addition, members of the public had uploaded 3, objects with the largest single contribution coming from Glasgow historian Robert Pool who submitted objects all relating to the City of Glasgow, and other museums a further 1, and museums and heritage sites across the UK had been mounting linked events — an unprecedented partnership, MacGregor said. Museums all over the world are now copying the formula, as thousands of visitors every day set out to explore the British Museum galleries equipped with the leaflet mapping the objects. It is such a beautifully simple idea, to trace A History of the World in 100 Objects civilisations through the objects that happen to have survived. Each programme, just 15 minutes long, focuses on just one thing, quite patiently, without dawdling. At the end, you feel that you have learnt something, and learnt it with pleasure and interest. For years to come, the BBC will be able to point to this wonderful A History of the World in 100 Objects as an example of the things that it does best. It fulfils, to a degree that one thought hardly possible any more, the BBC's Reithian agenda A History of the World in 100 Objects improvement and the propagation of learning and culture. Dominic Sandbrook in The Telegraph said that the "joyously highbrow" series "deserves to take its place alongside television classics such as Kenneth Clark 's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski 's The Ascent of Man. Clues remain in objects left behind. Five objects tell the story. This week he is with the great rulers of the world around 2, years ago. A special radio programme on Radio 4, first broadcast on 18 Mayfeatured one of the many thousands of items nominated on the BBC website by members of the public as an object of special significance. The painting, which belonged to Lewis' uncle, Bryn Roberts, was painted from a postcard photograph of Roberts' girlfriend and later wifePeggy Gullup, by an anonymous Jewish artist for Roberts whilst he was a prisoner of war at Auschwitz in Poland. The chairman of the panel of judges, Michael Portillonoted that the judges were "particularly impressed by the truly global scope of the British Museum's project, which combined intellectual rigour and open heartedness, and went far beyond the boundaries of the museum's walls". During and a touring exhibition of many of the one hundred objects, also titled History of the World in Objectswas held in a number of countries and territories, including Australia, A History of the World in 100 Objects, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, and China first at the National Museum of China in Beijing, and then at Shanghai Museum. Some controversial exhibits were excluded from the exhibition in some countries. Object 90 Jade bi with poem was not included in the exhibition held in China because it may have been looted from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. In addition, a piece of Chinese brocade that had been included in the touring exhibition elsewhere was not included in the exhibition in China because it was collected from the Mogao Caves by Aurel Stein under controversial circumstances. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Times Online. British Museum. Leigh Holmwood 28 January The Guardian. Louise Jury 28 January London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 30 January Retrieved 18 September The Canberra Times. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 18 January Retrieved 18 January Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 18 December Shanghai Daily. Retrieved 21 June The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 April Retrieved 10 June The Independent. The Telegraph. 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