British Museum travel guide

Scenic spot introduction:

The British Museum is one of the three major museums in the world, together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris. The museum is located in Great Russell Square north of New Oxford Street in London, England. It has a collection of cultural relics and book treasures from all over the world. With more than 6 million items, the collection is rich and diverse, rarely seen in museums around the world. Since its establishment in 1753, it is not only the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world, but also the largest and most famous in the world. one of the museums.

Attractions distribution:

The British Museum includes the Egyptian Museum, the Greek and Roman Museum, the West Asian Museum, the European Medieval Museum and the Oriental Art Museum. Among them, the collections of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, the Museum of Greco-Roman Antiquities and the Museum of Oriental Art Museum are the most eye-catching, while China’s collections account for the vast majority, and its collection of ancient Roman relics, ancient Greek statues and Egyptian mummies is famous for its collection. World.
The origins of the British Museum can be traced back to 1753, when a famous collector named Sir Hans Sloane left behind 1,700 personal collections and a large number of plant specimens and The entire collection of books, manuscripts, etc. was donated to the state and the collection was eventually given to the British Parliament. After raising funds for an architectural museum through public fundraising, the British Museum was finally established and opened to the public on January 15, 1759, in the Montague Building near downtown London.
The early British Museum tended to collect natural history specimens, but it also had a large number of cultural relics and books. Later, it continued to obtain a large number of precious collections through the British adventure activities in various places, thus attracting a large number of visitors. By the beginning of the 19th century, Montague Building was no longer adequate. So in 1823 the museum decided to build a new museum to the north of the Montague Building, which was completed in the 1840s. The old Montague Building was demolished soon after. Shortly after the new building was built, a circular reading room open to the public was built in the courtyard. Due to space constraints, in 1881 the British Museum separated natural history specimens from archaeological artifacts, and the British Museum specialized in collecting archaeological artifacts. In 1973, the museum was reorganized again, separating books, manuscripts and other contents to form the new British Library.

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