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London, Great Britain

British Museum
(including the former Museum of Mankind and the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

Parts of the British Library are being reorganised and renovated; the Anthropology Library is closed between September 2003 and April 2004)

General:

The British Museum
Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG
England

Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 8000 (switchboard)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 8299 (information desk)

E-mail: information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

The British Museum's two departments of particular interest to Andamanese research are the Ethnography department (formerly Museum of Mankind) and the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI).

Department of Ethnography (formerly: Museum of Cultures)

Department of Ethnography
The British Museum
6 Burlington Gardens
London W1X 3EX
England

Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 8041/44

E-mail: ethnography@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ethno/ethrefrea.html

Anthropological (RAI) Library:

E-mail: AnthropologyLibrary@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

http://www.rai.anthropology.org.uk/MoM/MoM.html

The Department of Ethnography holds around 350,000 objects, representing the cultures of indigenous peoples throughout the world.

Its relatively small holding (in relation to its enormous collections of other cultures) of Andamanese objects holds:

- 93 objects donated by R.C. Temple and is catalogued under order 905966, dept. reg. vol. 1, 1861-88; 1903-07. Othe donations were made by

- items donated by M.V. Portman (1886, envelope 1774)

- items donated by E.H. Man (listed in the location codes project of 21st February 1986, 59 pages, along with donations from Man, Portman, Temple and others)

- an ethnographc document donated by W.H. Burton (dated 1933, no. 1714 ).

Between 1970 and 1997 the Department was well known for its exhibitions and related activities as the Museum of Mankind off Piccadilly in London. The department is now returning to the Bloomsbury area of London where the British Museum is located.

The Anthropology Library of the British Museum is one of the world's major specialist anthropological collections with its origins in the19th century. Its standing was further enhanced by the donation of the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1976.

The journal collection is indexed by the Anthropological Index Online, a free online service. Fellows and Junior Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute are eligible to borrow items donated by the RAI; other researchers may only consult material in the Library. 

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