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9 July 1829: #MaryAnning visits @britishmuseum.bsky.social. She is impressed by the King's Library, royal prayer books, the 'Gigantic Egyptian heads' and 'saw the Elgin Marbles thought them remarkably fine'. Curiously, she makes no mention of the fossil galleries which she must surely have visited.

Portrait of Mary Anning in her green cloak and straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon. Extract from Mary Anning's notes on her visit to the British Museum: 'On Thursday went to the Museum with which I was much delighted beside the old Library I saw the Kings Library in which are sixty thousand volumes, saw a Book of Queen Elizabeth’s writing also King Elthelbert’s prayer Book'. The King's Library in the British Museum, now the Enlightenment Gallery. The British Museum gallery displaying the Elgin Marbles seen by Mary Anning on her visit in 1829.
jul 9, 2025, 9:29 am • 16 2

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