British Museum - Enlightenment Gallery
 The Enlightenment Gallery - Room 1 of the British Museum laid out as the study of a collector during the age of Enlightenment |
 The Enlightenment Gallery is divided into seven sections that explore the seven major new disciplines of the age |
 Religion & ritual, Trade & discovery, Archaeology, Art history, Classification, Decipherment of ancient scripts, Natural History |
 Ganumede with the eagle of Zeus, Roman, 2nd C. AD |
 Ganumede with the eagle of Zeus, Roman, 2nd C. AD |
 Faun with infant Bacchus, Roman, 2nd C. AD |
 Case of phallus related objects from ancient Greece and Rome |
 Erect Roman bronze wind-chime, Enlightenment Gallery, British Museum |
 Disk carved with magical symbols associated with the Elizabethan magicial Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) |
 Carved stone figures of the Hindu gods of India |
 Monju, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom |
 Chinese porcelin figures of Chinese gods |
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