| British Museum London is located in London and is a | | | | Department for Media, Culture, and Sport, moreover |
| museum of the human history and culture. The | | | | similar to any of the national museums, which are |
| collections of British Museum is more than 7 millions | | | | located in the United Kingdom; British Museum London |
| artifacts, which are amongst the leading and most | | | | has no charges or admission fee. Since the year 2002 |
| wide-ranging all across the world and start off from | | | | the administrator of this museum is Neil MacGregor. |
| each and every continent, illustrating as well as | | | | The British Museum was founded around 250 yrs |
| documenting the account of human culture from the | | | | ago, like an encyclopedia of art and of nature. These |
| start up to the present time. | | | | days it no longer hosts collections of the natural |
| British Museum London was set up in the year 1753, | | | | history, along with the books and the manuscripts it |
| and is principally based on the huge collections of the | | | | one time held now shape part of the self-governing |
| scientist and the physician Sir Hans Sloane. This | | | | British Library. British Museum London on the other |
| museum was first opened for the public in the year | | | | hand preserves the universality of the museum in its |
| 1759, on 15 January in Montagu House, which is | | | | collected works of artifacts, which represents the |
| located in Bloomsbury, and on the location of the | | | | cultures of both the world, modern and ancient. In |
| present building of British Museum . The expansion of | | | | addition, the original collection of the museum of the |
| the museum over the subsequent 200 yrs has | | | | 1753 has developed to more than thirteen million |
| resulted into the formation of numerous branch | | | | artifacts at museum, almost 70 millions at the Natural |
| institutions, and the earliest being British Museum | | | | History Museum as well as 150 millions at the British |
| London (for Natural History), which is located in South | | | | Library. |
| Kensington and formed in the year 1887. A few | | | | The renowned Round Reading Room was designed |
| objects in this collection includes the remarkable the | | | | by the famous architect Sydney Smirke, and was |
| Elgin Marbles that are brought here from the | | | | opened in the year 1857. For around 150 yrs |
| Parthenon, which are the objects of extreme | | | | researchers arrived at this reading room for |
| controversy and demands restitution to the countries | | | | consulting the vast library of the Museum. The |
| of their origin. | | | | Reading Room was later closed in the year 1997 |
| Until the year 1997, while the British Library (formerly | | | | while the national library (generally the British Library) |
| focussed on the Round Reading Room) shifted to a | | | | was shifted to a new-fangled building, which was |
| new-fangled site, the British Museum was only one of | | | | located at St Pancras. These days it has been |
| its kinds in that site; it housed both a national library | | | | malformed into the huge Walter and Leonore |
| and a national museum of antiquities within the same | | | | Annenberg Centre and contains the Paul Hamlyn |
| structure. This museum is a non-departmental and | | | | Library of books regarding the collections of the |
| has a public body, which is sponsored by the | | | | Museum, which is kept open to all of its visitors. |