British Museum (London) | art museum / art gallery, archaeology museum, Grade I Listed (UK)

United Kingdom / England / London / Great Russell Street
 museum, art museum / art gallery, archaeology museum, Grade I Listed (UK)
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and calls for restitution to their countries of origin.
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  1. British Museum Reading Room
  2. Queen Elizabeth II Great Court (British Museum)
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum
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Coordinates:   51°31'9"N   -0°7'36"E

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  • Here you will find the Elgin marbles, the architectural statuary from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
  • Brilliant Architecture