CATTI二级笔译：英美公共机构介绍——大英博物馆
The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection
of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures.
Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of
the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. Access to
the collection is free.
The Museum was based on the practical principle that the collection should be
put to public use and be freely accessible. It was also grounded in the
Enlightenment idea that human cultures can, despite their differences,
understand one another through mutual engagement. The Museum was to be a place
where this kind of humane cross-cultural investigation could happen. It still
is.
The Museum aims to reach a broader worldwide audience by extending engagement
with this audience. This is engagement not only with the collections that the
Museum has, but the cultures and territories that they represent, the stories
that can be told through them, the diversity of truths that they can unlock and
their meaning in the world today.
The Museum has continually sought to make its collections available to
greater and more diverse audiences, first in London, subsequently the UK and
worldwide.
Over the past forty years, the increasing ease of international travel has
meant not only that more visitors from abroad can come to London to use the
collection, but that the collection can more easily travel to them, and be put
to public use in new local contexts.
The website is not merely a source of information about the collection and
the Museum, but a natural extension of its core purpose to be a laboratory of
comparative cultural investigation.
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