The largest museum in the country and one of the oldest and finest in the world, this renowned museum boasts Egyptian, Greek, Roman, European and Middle Eastern galleries. The British Museum is the most visited attraction. On average, 5.5 million tourists visit it annually.
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Step 1
The history of the British Museum dates back to 1753, when the royal physician Sir Hans Sloan donated his collection of plant specimens to the museum. In 1820, the Museum of Natural Science was built nearby.
Step 2
Among the exhibits of the museum, the most significant are the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs discovered in 1799, the Parthenon Sculpture taken from the Parthenon in Athens, Lord Elgin (British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire), a large collection of Egyptian mummies and the burial of the Anglo-Saxon relics of Satton-Saxon.
Step 3
In 1998, a competition was announced for a reconstruction project for the British Museum. Defeated the Norman Foster variant. His architectural idea was to build a glass-metal roof, which is still an impressive structure today.
Step 4
In the center of the museum is a reading room with a stunning blue and gold domed papier-mâché ceiling where Karl Marx wrote Capital.
