| AdminHistory | The work of the Board of Trustees was carried out by a Standing Committee of normally 18 to 20 members, who met six to eight times a year to scrutinise all aspects of the workings of the Museum. These ranged from important matters of policy to the most trivial staff matters and the approval of small invoices. From its foundation in 1755 until 1884 the Committee met at the British Museum, Bloomsbury, and its minutes are preserved in the archives there. From 1884 the Standing Committee met alternately in Bloomsbury and South Kensington to consider the British Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) respectively. |