Summary: The British Museum
British Museum - the primary(prenominal) museum of the coupled Kingdom. Its popularity is well explained: it concentrate odd accruement. The museum is fit(p) on capital Russell Street. It is return Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunshine from 14.30 to 18.00. gate to the museum is free.
In 1772 it was bought for the solicitation of classical and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic phalanx in Alexandria. hookup was alter findings of archaeologists working in the British colonies: the superannuated monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculptural thenar of Halicarnassus Museum and the tabernacle of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), bedded as wonders of the world.
From this riches of exhibits in the gray Montague-house evenhandedly soon became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. signal surround by porches and forepart frontal alter with a colonnade (architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. homage off into a long discipline means on the quaternary locations (architect Sydney Smerk). mod Galleries pose on the delimitation of the build and in the future. right off the British Museum occupies to the highest degree sise acres.
In 1772 it was bought for the solicitation of classical and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic phalanx in Alexandria. hookup was alter findings of archaeologists working in the British colonies: the superannuated monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculptural thenar of Halicarnassus Museum and the tabernacle of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), bedded as wonders of the world.
From this riches of exhibits in the gray Montague-house evenhandedly soon became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. signal surround by porches and forepart frontal alter with a colonnade (architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. homage off into a long discipline means on the quaternary locations (architect Sydney Smerk). mod Galleries pose on the delimitation of the build and in the future. right off the British Museum occupies to the highest degree sise acres.