 The British Museum Friends

The British Museum Friends (BMF) is a registered charitable organisation in the UK with close links to the British Museum, and was set up in 1968.It provides funding in the form of grants to the British Museum in order to support the educational objectives of the Museum including to allow the Museum to acquire new items and collections, and assists with financing research programmes, conservation, and new technologies throughout the Museum.Acquisitions supported by the BMF include the Nimrud Ivories, the Warren Cup, the Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant, the Burney Relief, a Mycenaean terracotta group of three dancers in a ring, the gold mancus of Coenwulf, the Ringlemere Cup, the Vale of York Hoard and two very rare gold coins of the Roman Emperor Carausius found in the North Midlands in 2007.