British Museum (London)

...I decided to visit the British Museum – despite having visited numerous museums throughout Britain, strangely enough this was one place I had never been to. Opened to the public in 1759, today the British Museum has an attendance of over 5 million visitors a year. Getting there was easy – the British museum is located in Bloomsbury, in Great Russell Street to be precise, and the nearest tube station is Tottenham Court Road, which can ...
...over have heard of the British Museum; its huge number of artefacts (over 6 million!) cover all periods, from the earliest civilisations, right up until the present day. Obviously, because there is so much to see here, I’m not going to go into detail about everything that the museum has to offer, but rather highlight the sections that I enjoyed the most, and provide some more general information. If you’re a first time visitor, with no ...

weebagpuss 21.09.2001 · Read full review
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...interest for everyone at the British Museum even it is only the spectacular new Great Court which recently opened there. The British Museum houses six million objects including some of the most important collections in the world. I won’t attempt to describe what you can see there but concentrate on how you can get the most out of a visit. If you do want to visit the museum it really does help to check out their website at http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ ...
...superb new feature of the British museum. It was opened in December 2000. It covers the area of a football pitch and is covered by an amazing vaulted latticework glass roof. In the centre is what appears to be a very modern building in gleaming smooth white limestone with two curving staircases gracefully ascending to somewhere high above. However, if you enter you are transported back in time to 1857 to share the atmosphere of the thousands of famous ...

Freespirit 21.04.2001 · Read full review
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...Until 1997 The British Museum also housed the British Library, with its grand centrepiece, the Round reading Room, which is now the centre of the new courtyard millennium development. Designed by Foster and Partners this sees the reading room clad in whiter-than-white stone and the courtyard opened to the public, and roofed in glass. Coming through the main entrance on Museum Street, with it's imposing neo-classical architecture, into the dark, and ...
...into this light open space is wonderful -worth a visit even when the museum galleries are shut! In an effort to make it a more accessible public space the courtyard is open later in the evenings than the museum galleries. The super white stone, and greenish glass gives the whole courtyard an almost unreal feel - a little unnerving at first, but very peaceful, and I would certainly recommend stopping off their for coffee should you be in the area. ...

Ariel 06.07.2001 · Read full review
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...that new addition to the British Museum. Taboo? It certainly seemed so with my friend. He made all kinds of stark remarks like "I thought you would have been able to appreciate this..." Personally, upon stepping into the new courtyard, the sense of space and claustrophobia I got simultaneously quite put me out of place. Some people like it. They think its great - this whole play with new and old, the juxtaposition of the past with the present. You ...
...it was practically empty, save for the few quietly drinking tea. The glass coupled with all the strange sound effects that come with it, made me feel as though it was quite out of this world, as though I had been mysteriously teleported out of the norm into the arena of the unknown. This may be considered to be a novelty and even something most luxurious by my companion but I've always been known to be afraid of the insecurities belonging to the ...

yingli.lim 17.12.2000 (17.01.2001) · Read full review
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The British Museum is not, as the name might suggest, a museum about Britain, but rather the national museum in Britain. It covers all areas of the world and has artifacts from all periods. HISTORY: Originally founded by Sir Hans Sloane who left his vast collection of artifacts to the crown to create a museum. The museum was founded by Act of Parliament in 1753. The building as we see it now was constructed in the 19th century, with the Great Court ...
...the major irks of the British Museum is that they don't employ enough people to keep all of the galleries open all of the time. But for the casual visitor this shouldn't be a problem as the main attractions are always open. VERDICT: I love the British Museum. There is always so much to see and becasue its free you can go back again and again if you don't manage to see everything that you wanted to. Some of the areas do need updating but the the ...

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...I have been to the British Museum, which is lovated just of Tottenham Court Road, in Great Russell Street. I really had forgotten what a miraculous place it is. Firstly, the new roof to the great court and modifications to the old British Library reading room are truly outstanding. The roof makes a wonderfully clean and pleasant enclosure within the museum. The collections are so vast it would be hopelessly impossible to address them all, suffice ...

mattgarvey 04.03.2001 · Read full review
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This museum is great - literally one of the world's top half dozen - and thousands of people travel to London primarily to see it. It really needs to be viewed and described collection by collection, but whatever it is that interests you so much of the world's treasure is here that you must be impressed. It's overcrowded (a snag with being free), lots of galleries seem too full of exhibits (but at least they are there), and the building was not made ...

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