scholarly view until 1950. In 1958, Victor, Lord Rothschild sold it to the British Museum for £20,000, £2,000 of which was donated by the Art Fund (then the NACF). The cup forms part of the museum's Department of Prehistory and Europe rather than the Greece and Rome Department, and was previously on display, lit from behind, in Room 50. In 2015 it was on display with the new display of the Rothschild donation of the Waddesdon Bequest in Room 2A, with a changing internal lighting source that shows the colour change very effectively, though only one side of the cup can be seen. By October 2015 it was back in the re-opened Room 41. While Room 41, where it was then displayed, was closed for refurbishment, from November 2012 to August 2013 it was on display with other British Museum pieces at The Art Institute of Chicago's Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art, where it was very effectively displayed in a free-standing case, lit from above with changing light so that the colour change was clearly visible. It is considered able to travel to important exhibitions and in 2008 was exhibited in "Reflecting Antiquity, Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome" at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, in 2003 at the Hayward Gallery in London in "'Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund", and in 1987 in "Glass of the Caesars" in the British Museum, Cologne, Milan, and Rome. Notes References "Ashby" (M. F. Ashby, Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira, Daniel L. Schodek), Nanomaterials, nanotechnologies and design: an introduction for engineers and architects, 2009, Butterworth-Heinemann, , British Museum Collection Database with over 40 photos (nearly all labelled "front", many incorrectly) "Barber"; D.J. Barber, I.C. Freestone, An investigation of the colour of the Lycurgus Cup by analytical transmission electron microscopy, 1990, Archeometry, 32, 33–45. British Museum Highlights – The Lycurgus cup Fleming, Stuart James. Roman glass: reflections on cultural change, 1999, UPenn Museum of Archaeology, , , google books "Freestone": Freestone, Ian; Meeks, Nigel; Sax, Margaret; Higgitt, Catherine, The Lycurgus Cup – A Roman Nanotechnology, Gold Bulletin, 4, 4, London, World Gold Council (now distributed by Springer), 2007, PDF Harden, D.B., Glass of the Caesars. Exhibition catalogue, organized by: The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N. Y., The British Museum, London, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne; 1987, Olivetti, Milan Henderson, Julian. The science and archaeology of