Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum

Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 decade ago

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Queen from the Lewis Chessmen. Probably made in Norway, about AD 1150–1200

The Western Australia Museum and the British Museum have partnered to bring a unique collection of rare artefacts to Australia for the first time, to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in October 2011.

The exhibition will be filled with some of the British Museum’s most important objects, rarely lent to other museums, representing many of the 54 Commonwealth countries. Individually and collectively they tell extraordinary stories about the world's people, who we are and where we've come from – taking visitors on a 1.8 million year journey around the world.

http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/extraordinary-stories/