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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum in London founded in 1753, holding one of the world's largest collections of human history and culture. It houses Assyrian palace reliefs, including the lion hunt reliefs of Ashurbanipal from Nineveh. It also holds a large collection of the Benin Bronzes taken in 1897, which are at the centre of restitution debates.
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