American Friends of the British Museum has been pleased to support the needs of the curatorial and other departments at the British Museum. For example, recent grants from The American Friends have supported:
Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan for cataloguing and publishing the pre-dynastic collection, and to support Sudan Archaeological Research Projects
Department of Ancient Near East for the exhibition, Forgotten Empire: the World of Ancient Persia
Department of Asia for the exhibition, Voices of Bengal
Department of Coins and Medals for acquisitions
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities for acquisitions
Department of Learning to support the James and Lee Slaughter Keeper of Learning & Information
Department of Prehistory and Europe for the Medieval Seals and Matrices Project
Department of Prints and Drawings for the exhibitions, Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape and A New World: England’s First View of America, and for the James Slaughter Curator of the Modern Collections
