The British Museum, The exhibits of the British Museum - Британский музей

The Museum contains 10 sections (prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, Roman-British, medieval, Renaissance, Oriental, numismatics, etc.) and the British Library.

Section Numismatics includes coins and medals from different countries and eras, including ancient Greek, Roman and Persian, etc., as well as the Royal collection of king George IV.

Museums, Zoological, Botanical, geological and mineralogical transferred to 1881-1982 in a special room in South Kensington.

Extensive ethnographic collections of the British Museum contain the monuments of culture of the peoples of Africa, America, Oceania, etc.

The exhibits of the British Museum

The British Museum is one of the oldest museums in the world (established in HTU). Contains a collection of two million of the world's history and culture. The Museum houses more than 94 galleries and thousands of art objects. In order to examine in some detail, will require at least 3 days. The most popular exhibits are: Elgin Marbles sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens (first level - ground floor - room 8), Egyptian mummies (hall 25) and Rosetta stone (Rosetta Stone). In the halls 51 and 52 is a collection of Persian gold (Oxus Treasure) 7-4 century BC, treasure Sotto Ho(upper level-upper floor - room number 41). The reading room of the Museum features trabattoni Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mahatma Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, correspondence Lenin with N. Krupskaya and many other rarities.

In 1823, was erected the Royal library, to which later were added the new premises, and the round reading room under a large copper dome (the diameter of the dome is 47 m is larger than the diameter of the dome of St. Peter's in Rome).Only some collections of Egyptian, Assyrian and Greek sculptures belong to the most precious in the world. The "pearl" of the Museum are: TPU analogd adorned the Athenian Parthenon marble sculptures brought in in the early NINETEENTH century from the Athenian Acropolis by Lord Elgin, and Assyrian bas-reliefs depicting the hunting of lions.

In the main building of the Museum is the mummy killed prehistoric man"Pete Marsh", had lain in the peat bog for many centuries, until he took out a farmer's plow, fossilized Archaeopteryx is a bird about the origin which scientists ' opinions still diverge. Here you can also see an outstanding collection of works of art of different peoples and historical findings, representing almost all cultures of the world.

Recently renovated African centres are equipped with the world's best collection of art of the Black continent. The Museum included a rich collection of engravings, coins and medals. Because exhibitions are constantly updated, people who already visited the British Museum, there will always be something to see. The British remain the originals in everything: in order for rats and mice did not spoil the unique collection in the state were enrolled, six cats. Therefore, if you are, walking through the halls of the British Museum, you see a cat in uniform (with a yellow bow at the neck), know before you state employee.

In the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities exhibited the best of Finnish sculpture of the Acropolis, the famous bust of Pericles and the statue Demetra from the island Knit. The Department of prehistoric monuments includes archaeological finds from all over the world. There is also stored a great collection of decorative arts of the middle Ages and modern times.

The Department of Oriental manuscripts presents the art of the peoples inhabiting the country from Morocco to Japan. The collection of coins and medals recites seven hundred and fifty thousand exhibits. In the Department of drawings and engravings collected about five hundred and seventy thousand pieces, including works by the great masters of the Renaissance: 20 - Leonardo da Vinci, 31 - Raphael, 85 - Michelangelo, 100 - Albrecht dьrer, 200 - Hans Holbein Younger and 117 - Dutch painter Rembrandt. There is also a very comprehensive collection of graphic works by French artists Claude Lorrain and Antoine Watteau.

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