British Museum
The British Museum, founded in 1753, contains world-famous collections of antiquities from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome, as well as Prehistoric and Romano-British, Medieval, Renaissance, Modern and Oriental collections; Prints and Drawings; Coins, Medals and BanknotesThe Museum\’s collections number some six-and-a-half million objects ranging in size from shreds to colossal statues. The collections are maintained both for exhibition and as a research resource for some 30,000 enquiries from professional academics, school-children, tourists each year. The Museum site more.. type: Palaces address: Great Russell Street openinghours: Mon-Sat 10 am- 5pm, Sun 12-6 tel: 020 7323 8000
