- 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...
- The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
- Explore Bloomsbury's British Museum, home to the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone...
- 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.
- Get closer to the British Museum collection and immerse yourself in two million years of history, across six continents.
- Out of the original structure, the British Museum displays about 75 meters of the frieze, together with 17 statues from the pediment and 15 metopes.
- Founded in 1753, the British Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1759 as the first national museum to cover all fields of human knowledge.
- Visiting the museum is a centuries-old tradition: gaze on treasures that have inspired generations, including the Rosetta Stone, history’s most extraordinary...
- The British Museum is also known for its very large and popular collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi.