- In the 1830s, the museum began to welcome in more and more visitors, and today more than six million people explore the British Museum each year.
- Our first London Streets Treasure Hunt is a completely self contained experience, starting outside the British Museum and taking you all the way to Trafalgar Square.
- However, out of this list, there is one museum in particular - the British Museum, which overshadows and outshines all the rest.
- When the British Museum was opened in 1759 it was the first national museum to be open to the public anywhere in the world.
- British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October.
- British Museum (Est 1753): World's Greatest Collection of Antiquities, Decorative Arts Illustrating the History of Civilization.
- The British Museum and British Library were originally one institution, however, the Library has since moved and occupies a different location.
- British Museum, in London, comprehensive national museum with particularly outstanding holdings in archaeology and ethnography.
- The British Museum is the largest museum in the United Kingdom, with a collection of more than seven million objects.
- While Toronto’s own Royal Ontario Museum has an extensive collection from Egypt, the British museum’s extensive collection is truly spectacular.