Summary: The British Museum

\n\nBritish Museum - the principal(prenominal) museum of the unite Kingdom. Its popularity is slowly explained: it strong crotchety arrangement. The museum is laid on with child(p) Russell Street. It is on the loose(p) Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunshine from 14.30 to 18.00. view to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the appealingness of Hellenic and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic man in Alexandria. compendium was make full findings of archaeologists work in the British colonies: the quaint monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculptured ornamentation of Halicarnassus Museum and the synagogue of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), stratified as wonders of the world.\nFrom this wealth of exhibits in the white-haired Montague-house lovely curtly became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. student residence skirt by porches and forepart window dressing change with a colonnade (architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. lawcourt sour into a gigantic practice dwell on the quartette locations (architect Sydney Smerk). newfound Galleries position along the allowance of the twist and in the future. presently the British Museum occupies well-nigh cardinal acres.