• The British Museum (BM) was the first national public museum in the world. Its permanent collection, over 8 million works, is amongst the largest and...
  • So it is fitting today that we have inherited the word museum from them and given it to our British Museum in London.
  • The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
  • The British Museum in London is due to the vast range of unique exhibition objects worldwide leading in art and cultural history.
  • British Museum, in London, comprehensive national museum with particularly outstanding holdings in archaeology and ethnography.
  • The British Museum was founded in 1753 to house an impressive private collection of about 71,000 cultural artefacts and natural history specimens.
  • The Sloane bequest formed the basis of the British Museum, established by an Act of Parliament on 7 June 1753.
  • **The British Museum** was first opened to the public in 1759, in _Montagu House_, on the site of the current building.
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  • Get closer to the British Museum collection and immerse yourself in two million years of history, across six continents.