Persian Empire Exhibit at The British Museum

Should the sponsorship by British Petroleum be a problem??? They started sponsoring before the hurricane hit the Gulf coast...

BTW, I'm only back sporadically...
 
Never thought of the hurricane myself, but petrol company sponsoring a exhibit on Persian region is sure to raise eyebrows at least. Especially if it's presided that such exbihit was made possible by several Iranian departement (including the National Petroleum company).
On the exhibit itself, sounds interesting - need to find a press trip in London to have a look at it.

Sporadically is better than nothing...
 
I'm popping down to London in November for a couple of days, so will try & catch it then. Agree with Leto with the odd sponsorship, but at least some of their ridiculously high profits are being channelled into "charitable" pusuits. A bit like a lotto winner doing community service :D

Nice to see you again TM, even if only in spells :)
 
I've lived in London for 22 years; and not once in that time have I been to the British Museum. Two trips to the London Dungeon though. :eek:

I'll make sure to go and check this out. Looks like a lot of fun.

Thanks for the heads up!
 
I went on Saturday - the one thing I'd warn people about is the number of attendees! A bunch of us arrived at 14:30, and we got the last four tickets to get in at 16:00. It's a hard life - we had to sit in the pub over the road drinking Old Peculiar until 1600.. Old Peculiar on tap - score!

Oh yeah, the Persian stuff was neat as well. =D Not completely exciting, but interesting, especially since I knew little of its history.
 
mikeo said:
I went on Saturday - the one thing I'd warn people about is the number of attendees! A bunch of us arrived at 14:30, and we got the last four tickets to get in at 16:00. It's a hard life - we had to sit in the pub over the road drinking Old Peculiar until 1600.. Old Peculiar on tap - score!
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Doesn't History rule? :)
 
BTW, is it possible to access to the Reading room of the Museum as a regular visitor ?
 
I love the British Museum. Of course now I livetoo far away to visit as much as I used to. I wish I could go home.
 
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