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

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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