The British Museum is a public museum in London dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge. It frequently ranks among the top 3 most visited museum in the world with an average annual visitors around 4 million.
The museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Anglo-Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane and was opened to the general public in 1759.
The museum’s expansion over the following 250 years was largely a result of British colonization and resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, or independent spin-offs, the first being the Natural History Museum in 1881. The right to ownership of some of its most well-known acquisitions, notably the Greek Elgin Marbles and the Egyptian Rosetta Stone, is subject to long-term disputes and repatriation claims.
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As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with nearly 4,500,000 individual object entries in 2,000,000 records, many of them illustrated, online at the start of 2023.
The British museum is one of several world famous museums in central London, all free to the public and easily accessible by the London Metro (The Tube). Other notable museums that rank frequently in top 20 of world’s most popular museums are – Tate Modern, National Gallery and the Victoria & Albert (V&A). Watch the short clip below for a quick virtual tour of British Gold & Silver collection at the V&A.
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