Trouble is brewing at two august British institutions:
For centuries they were two halves of one venerated cultural institution. Now, three years after they went their separate ways, a rift has emerged between the British Museum and the British Library over the growing literary flavour of the former\’s exhibitions.
The museum is planning a three-month display next spring of illustrations inspired by James Joyce\’s Ulysses, and curators at the library, in London, are said to be livid at what they regard as the latest example of a creeping infiltration of their academic territory.
A source at the library told The Independent on Sunday: \”Bosses are fuming, and the curators do not understand what the British Museum is playing at. We want it to get its tanks off our lawn.\”
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