Softback. Cover is a picture of works of art with red and blue title.

F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feel and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

This thought-provoking book draws on the worldwide collections of the British Museum for its inspiration. Memory is essential to a sense of being. It is deeply embedded in both personal and cultural identity, and in the history of established institutions- in particular museums, which can be construed as ‘theatres of memory’