Британский музей

The British Museum is the main Museum of the United Kingdom. Its popularity is easily explained: it holds a unique collection. The Museum is located on Great Russell Street. It is open from Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00, and on Sunday from 14.30 to 18.00. The entrance to the Museum is free.

In 1772 he bought a collection of Greek and Etruscan vases, and W in the collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic troops in Alexandria. The collection was filled with finds of archaeologists who worked in the British colonies: the monuments of the ancient kingdoms of Assyria and Sumer in Mesopotamia, the sculptures of the Museum of Halicarnassus and the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia minor), ranked among the wonders of the world.

From this abundance of the exhibits in the old Montagu house soon became quite crowded. In 1823-gg. the mansion was surrounded by outbuildings and decorated front facade is a colonnade(architect Robert Smirk), and in 1854-gg. the courtyard was converted into a huge reading room for four seats (architect Sydney Smirk). New galleries are attached to the perimeter of the building in the future. Now the British Museum covers nearly six acres.

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