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Reading Room of the British Museum
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Reading_Room_of_the_British_Museum
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:library
gptkbp:architect
gptkb:Sydney_Smirke
gptkbp:capacity
over 400 readers
gptkbp:ceilingMaterial
iron and glass
gptkbp:closed
1997
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:diameter
42.6 metres
gptkbp:featuredIn
film "Possession"
film "The Day of the Jackal"
gptkbp:function
gptkb:library
gptkb:museum
gptkbp:heritageStatus
Grade I listed building
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Reading Room of the British Museum
gptkbp:inspiredBy
design of Library of Congress Main Reading Room
design of Russian State Library Reading Room
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:London
gptkbp:location
gptkb:British_Museum
gptkbp:notableUser
gptkb:George_Bernard_Shaw
gptkb:Karl_Marx
gptkb:Mahatma_Gandhi
gptkb:Oscar_Wilde
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Lenin
gptkbp:numberOfFloors
cork
gptkbp:opened
1857
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:British_Museum
gptkbp:referenceCollection
over 25,000 books
gptkbp:reopened
2000
gptkbp:roofType
gptkb:building
gptkbp:style
Neoclassical architecture
gptkbp:usedBy
gptkb:British_Library
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Sidney_Smirke
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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