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National and Cultural Institutions Founded from 1753 to 1917

National museums and cultural institutions founded from the Enlightenment to the First World War to hold and display a nation collections for the public. An organization belongs here when its cited article gives a founding or establishment date inside this span. It excludes organizations founded earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same kind, and it does not turn on how large or long-lived an organization became.

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Wikipedia: Imperial War Museum
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Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
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Wikipedia: British Museum
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Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum.
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Wikipedia: Smithsonian Institution
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Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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