British Museum

The British Museum is a London-based historical institution dedicated to human history and civilization. Its enduring collection, which numbers about eight million books and spans all continents, is the largest and most comprehensive in existence, describing and chronicling the history of human society from its beginnings to the present.

Since its founding in 1753, the British Museum has taken pleasure in being unmolested. The British Museum is home to more than 7 million items, and seeing them all would probably take a week. The collection of Egyptian and Greek antiquities is without a doubt among the world's finest and most well-known.

On January 15, 1759, the British Museum opened to the general public. It was initially housed at Montagu Mansion, a seventeenth-century house in Bloomsbury, on the site of today's fabrication. 'All studious and inquisitive Persons' were granted free passage. The Museum has stayed open since then, with the exception of two World Wars, gradually increasing its opening hours and growing from 5,000 visitors per year to today's 6 million.

Location: Great Russell Street, London, England WC1B 3DG

Website: britishmuseum.org