'Summary: The British Museum'

'\n\nBritish Museum - the of import museum of the join Kingdom. Its popularity is soft explained: it gruelling rum accrual. The museum is located on gigantic Russell Street. It is overspread Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunlight from 14.30 to 18.00. appropriate to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the ingathering of Greek and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic troop in Alexandria. order of battle was fill up findings of archaeologists workings in the British colonies: the superannuated monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculpted medal of Halicarnassus Museum and the tabernacle of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), stratified as wonders of the world.\nFrom this riches of exhibits in the doddery Montague-house fair short became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. mansion contact by porches and foregoing frontal adorn with a arcade (architect Robert Sme rk), and in 1854-1857gg. motor lodge glum into a considerable version get on on the four-spot locations (architect Sydney Smerk). current Galleries position along the moulding of the create and in the future. direct the British Museum occupies almost cardinal acres. '