As the Capital and largest city of England, London is a thoroughly modern city. However, its history dates back to Roman times with an impressive Medieval History. London is an excellent first ...

From the private collection of Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, the British Museum has grown to become one of the world's most ...

View antiquities at the British Museum is ranked #5 out of 38 things to do in London, England. See pictures and our review of View antiquities at the British Museum.

The British Museum houses a collection of about eight million historical and cultural artefacts from around the world.

The choice of the British Museum’s glass-roofed Great Court as the venue pushed the point home that, regardless of who might win on the night, the venerable Bloomsbury institution – known to ...

The British Museum is itself an artefact. The institution, dating back to 1753, was the world’s first public national museum, established by an act of parliament.

The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year ...

Ask any of the staff members helpfully loitering around the entrance to the British Museum’s Great Court and they’ll tell you - there are three things that people ask for. The mummies, the ...

Nowadays, you enter the landmark through the magnificent glass-roofed Great Court full of the buzz of students, tourists and Londoners. The British Museum is a working organisation carrying out ...

Opened by the late Queen in 2000, the Great Court of the British Museum quickly became an icon of the capital’s cultural landscape. If you’ve ever wondered what used to fill that gleaming space before ...