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A Shared History for a
Global World
Neil MacGregor
Director, The British Museum
Treasures of the World from the British Museum at the
National Museum of Singapore from 5th December 2015
until 29th May 2016.
General view of the temple at Borobudur central Java
Watercolours on paper. 1814.
Stone handaxe
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Lower Palaeolithic, about 800,000 years old
Pectoral with heart-scarab
Probably from Memphis, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, around 1275 BC
Model, Kayak with figure
Arctic peoples, 19th century
Standing figure of the Buddha
Ancient Gandhara, Pakistan, AD 100–200
Painting of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra
Tang dynasty, around AD 750–850
Silver Buddha on a bronze
lotus base (PICTURED
CENTRE)
Sculpture from the Sambas
Treasure
From Borneo, Indonesia;
probably made in Java, 8th
or 9th century AD
Lewis Chess pieces
Uig, Lewis, Western Isles, 1150-1175 (circa)
Blue and white
porcelain dish
Jingdezhen,
China, Ming
Dynasty, 1403 –
1424
Grave Relief
with Youth
Greek 400 BC-
100AD
marble
Height 179 cm
Cycladic Figure
Greece,Cyclades, 2600BC-
2400BC
Pablo Picasso,
Portrait de Jacqueline
accoudée, au collier,
France, 1959
Jim Dine (America)
A Beautiful Heart