Collection was published in 1910. Department of Ethnography The Department of Ethnography was set up as a separate department in 1946. In 1964 the department received 15,000 items from the Wellcome Foundation, the biggest single acquisition from which they ever benefited. Museum of Mankind From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum was housed at 6 Burlington Gardens, displaying collections from the Americas, Africa, the Pacific and Australia, as well as tribal Asia and Europe. This was due to lack of space in the Museum's main building in Bloomsbury. Between 1970 and 1997, the department was known as the Museum of Mankind. 75 exhibitions were hosted, including many famous ones such as Nomad and City (1976), and Living Arctic (1987). It was created by Keeper of Ethnography Adrian Digby in the 1960s, and opened by his successor William Fagg. Fagg was succeeded by Malcolm Mcleod in 1974, and by John Mack in 1990. The museum ceased exhibiting at Burlington Gardens in 1997 and the Department of Ethnography moved back to the British Museum in Bloomsbury in 2004. Exhibitions held at the Museum of Mankind Manding: Focus on an African Civilisation, 1972 The Power of the Hand, African arms and armour, 1995 Notable ethnographers who have worked at the British Museum Karl Marx who produced his Ethnographic Notebooks was a regular user of the Reading Room when it housed the British Library. References British Museum Ethnography British Museum