Chester Beatty
Museum of rare manuscripts, papyri and Islamic and Asian art gifted by a copper-mining magnate.
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This guide to the Chester Beatty opens at the January 1968 funeral of Alfred Chester Beatty, a New York mining engineer known as the King of Copper for his operations across Africa. You'll hear how a lung disease ended his mining career and sent him instead chasing Persian manuscripts, Chinese snuff bottles and Egyptian papyrus, and about the tax dispute with Britain that brought his collection to Dublin in 1950. Look for the manuscripts and papyri gathered piece by piece over a lifetime as you move through the galleries.
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