Talk:British Museum Reading Room

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Pictures

Slightly too many pictures now for the amount of text. I wish people would upload all their pictures to commons - only one is. Justinc 09:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The caption to the interior panorama photo reads "almost 180 degree view" but based on the number of pairs of windows visible (fifteen out of twenty) this looks more like 270 degrees. The photo and current caption together give the impression that the reading room is bigger on the inside than on the outside. 217.42.196.64 (talk) 20:37, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wasn't this scene actually shot in the old Science Museum library, when it was still located in the middle of the old Royal College of Science building at Imperial College, before that building was knocked down in the 1970s? Jheald (talk) 14:24, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Belatedly - you're right, of course ... Kbthompson (talk) 19:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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A history of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973, British Library, 1998, ISBN 0712345620, 9780712345620
Wilson, David M., The British Museum; A History, The British Museum Press, 2002, ISBN 0714127647

-- 18:26, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Enoch Soames

Is this the same reading room featured in the Enoch Soames short story? If so, a mention of this should be added to the "References in art and popular culture" section. Diego (talk) 10:11, 19 September 2012 (UTC) show how to obtain identification from Fort Bragg after special operations command mission return, enlisted at Gateway national Recreation Area,Department Of Interior in New Jersey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.147.183.150 (talk) 17:05, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture

An old popular culture mention: In Gerard Hoffnung's comedy routine about becoming a tour guide in London, in which he gives tourists some rather questionable advice, one of the lines is "Have you tried the famous echo in the Reading Room of the British Museum?"

It is available at this archive link, part of track number 3 ("Early jobs"); I've placed it here on the discussion page in case it's not significant enough to include in the article. TooManyFingers (talk) 14:45, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]