17/06/2015
Our new Waddesdon Bequest gallery!
The Waddesdon Bequest is a remarkable, strange and wonderful collection of objects from the Medieval and Renaissance periods in Europe, once owned by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. The collection has had a colourful life, living in the Baron’s luxurious red smoking room in Waddesdon Manor, and bequeathed (given in his will) to the British Museum in 1898. Until recently, […]
