Museum · Bloomsbury
The British Museum
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3D
Britain's national museum of human history and culture, set around the glass-roofed Great Court in Bloomsbury. Its free permanent galleries cover two million years of objects from every continent, while major ticketed exhibitions run in the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery.
Permanent exhibitions
- Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies
- Parthenon sculptures from Athens
- Assyrian palace reliefs from Nineveh and Nimrud
- Sutton Hoo ship-burial treasures
- Lewis Chessmen and medieval Europe
- Benin Bronzes and African collections
- Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananai'a
- Enlightenment Gallery in the former King's Library
