The British Museum

Here you have a video where you can see a few parts of the British Museum. There is so much to see there, especially if you're interested in history (e.g. it has the biggest collection of Egyptian art and mummies in the world)



British Museum

The British Museum is an important site in London. Ite is the biggest museum in the United Kingdom and the most popular antiques museum in the world!

The British Museum has a National Library too.

It first opened to the public on January, 15th 1759.

By the last years of the nineteenth century, the British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them and it had to be altered.

By the 1970s the Museum was again expanding. More services for the public were introduced; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition "Treasures of Tutankhamun in 1972, attracting 1,694,117 visitors, the most successful in British history.

At present, the British Museum has 10 departments of many things.

There are a lot of departments, galleries and exhibitions:

Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan,Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Department of the Middle East, Department of Prints and Drawings

Department of Asia, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Department of Coins and Medals, Department of Prehistory and Europe

Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science, Libraries and Archives, etc


The oficial web of the museum is

http://www.britishmuseum.org

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