The British Museum is one of the largest and most important museums in the history of the world.
It was founded in 1753 by Sir Hans Sloane, a physician and scientist who collected a literary and artistic heritage in its original core: the Montague House library in London, later purchased by the British state for twenty thousand pounds and open to the public on 15 January 1759.
The current president is Sir John Boyd.
The museum houses about 8 million objects that testify the history and material culture of humanity from its origins to the contemporary.
It is located on Great Russell Street in the city of London.
Main works
- Rosetta Stone
- Paser crossword stele
- Cyrus cylinder
- Townley Discobolus (Hadrianic copy of a Greek original from 455 BC)
- friezes, metopes and pediments of the Parthenon
- Efebo Westmacott
- Remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
- Warren cup
- Portland Vase (1st century BC)
- Sarcophagus of Thanunia Seianti
- Hoxne treasure
- Carthage treasure
- Stein collection on Central Asia
- Works of Albrecht Dürer (Rhinoceros)
- Leonardo da Vinci, Profile of an ancient captain (around 1475)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, Fall of Phaethon (around 1533)
- Golden interior coffin of Henutmehyt
- Egyptian mummies
- Ivory chess pieces (12th century) (one of the few complete medieval chessboards in existence)
- Brass plaque from Benin, Nigeria
- The Clock Room
- Artifacts from the Sutton Hoo tomb
- Gold bracelet from the treasure of Oxus
- Footprints of the Buddha
- A colossal head of Amenhotep III in red granite and another in quartzite
- Megalithic statue Hoa Hakananai'a of Easter Island
- British (12th century canonical manuscript containing 93 fragments of the digest)
- Banner of Ur
- Two-headed snake, Aztec sculpture
- Ea-nasir complaint tablet
Opening time
Every day: 10.00-17.30
Friday: 10.00-20.30
British Museum - Virtual Tour 3D - 360°
Address: Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, WC1B 3DG, Regno Unito
Phone: +44 20 7323 8299
Site:
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