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English - British Museum (A2-B1- with subtitles)

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English - British Museum (A2-B1- with subtitles)

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Entrance

Entry to the British Museum is free for all visitors

Opening time

The museum is open every day from 10 am to 5.30 pm
that access to certain rooms is subject to time limits.
Galleries temporarily closed

The museum is closed on
January 1st, 24th, 25th and 26th December

How to reach the British Museum?
The British Museum is located on Great Russell Street and is easily accessible in three ways, either by Tube (underground) or by bus, or by car or on foot depending on where your hotel is located in the English capital . Always carry a guide or a map of the city and the metro to be able to better orientate you. The ways to reach the museum are mainly these:

Subway :

You should go down and choose the nearest stops like Tottenham Court Road which is about 500 meters from the museum or that of Holborn. But Russell Square and Goodge Street are also some 800 meters away.

Bus:

With the London buses you can reach the museum with the numbers: 1, 7, 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 98, 242 getting off at the New Oxford Street stop, while with the buses number 10, 14, 24, 29, 73, 134, 390 going down at the Tottenham Court Road stop, heading north to Gower Street, heading south. Or opt for buses 59, 68, X68, 91, 168, 188 getting off at Southampton Row.

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Entrance to the museum is free for all visitors, while visits to temporary exhibitions may apply. Because of the extraordinary richness of the collections, it is practically impossible to see all the exhibits, even having more days available. Therefore, a modest list of the most interesting specimens is attempted.

Buddha's footprints

Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi

Hoxne's treasure

The Portland vase, so called by the dukes of the same name, a true blown glass masterpiece

The remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Findings of the Temple of Artemis of Ephesus

Stein's collection on Asia Minor

Ciro's cylinder

The Rosetta stone

Leonardo da Vinci - Profile of ancient captain (circa 1475)

Michelangelo Buonarroti - Fall of Fetonte (about 1533)

Gold bracelet of the Oxus treasure

The clock room

Ivory chess piece (walrus tusk)

Aphrodite's head

The treasure of Sutton Hoo

Mildenhall's treasure, consisting of 34 silver pieces from the 4th century BC, the most important of which is:

The Great Dish with depictions of Bacchus, god of wine, Hercules and other Roman mythological figures

The Lindow Man, mummified corpse 2000 years ago of a man who died during sacrificial rites

Elgin Marbles, the sculptures of the Parthenon of Athens.

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The British Museum opened its doors to visitors 258 years ago this month, on 15 January 1759. The first national public museum in the world, it was - and still is - open to 'all studious and curious persons'.

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The British museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, unite kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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The British museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, unite kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent Act of Parliament which established the British Museum. The British Museum Act 1753 also added two other libraries to the Sloane collection, namely the Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to Elizabethan times and the Harleian library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford.