• The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library.
  • Archive photo showing the interior of the Reading Room (courtesy of The British Museum).
  • The British Museum’s vast and imposing Round Reading Room has reopened this week to all visitors after being closed for the past 11 years.
  • By the early 1850s the British Museum Library badly needed a larger reading room.
  • By the early 1850s, the British Museum Library badly needed a larger reading room.
  • “After extensive renovations and the repair of bomb damage incurred during World War II, the famous Reading Room of the British Museum, London...
  • Despite its role within The British Museum, the Reading Room has barely changed in appearance.
  • British Museum chair George Osborne made a commitment to reopen the Reading Room, which had been closed since 2013, in November 2022.