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Around The World in 8 Million Objects: The British Museum
Whenever I’m in London, I make it a point to visit my place of worship. Nope, it’s not St. Paul’s Cathedral, or Westminster Abbey. They’re lovely, but as an Atheist (gasp!) my admiration for English churches doesn’t go much further than the exquisiteness of their towering buttresses, the craftsmanship of stained glass windows or the eerily beautiful acoustics found only in frighteningly cavernous spaces. I’m not really the praying kind. But there is one place that always has me in awe the moment I cross its threshold, and it’s the British Museum. The British Museum is one of the largest museums in the world and in my opinion, it’s not…