Summary: The British Museum

\n\nBritish Museum - the of import museum of the unite Kingdom. Its popularity is comfortably explained: it difficult queer charm. The museum is placed on striking Russell Street. It is have Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunlight from 14.30 to 18.00. watch to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the assemblage of Grecian and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic man in Alexandria. accrual was alter findings of archaeologists operative in the British colonies: the past monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculpturesque ornament of Halicarnassus Museum and the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), be as wonders of the world.\nFrom this riches of exhibits in the middle-aged Montague-house middling currently became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. entrance hall environ by porches and present frontlet change with a arcade (architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. homage turn into a extensive yarn way on the tetrad locations (architect Sydney Smerk). rising Galleries lay on the molding of the building and in the future. nowadays the British Museum occupies intimately six-spot acres.