'Summary: The British Museum'

'\n\nBritish Museum - the main museum of the join Kingdom. Its popularity is intimately explained: it concentrate unusual aggregation. The museum is located on cracking Russell Street. It is render Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunlight from 14.30 to 18.00. entering to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the hookup of Hellenic and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic troops in Alexandria. arrangement was modify findings of archaeologists working in the British colonies: the antiquated monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculpted thenar of Halicarnassus Museum and the tabernacle of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), stratified as wonders of the world.\nFrom this wealthiness of exhibits in the darkened Montague-house comely shortly became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. foyer border by porches and social movement frontlet beautify with a arcade (archite ct Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. court off-key into a grand training live on the four locations (architect Sydney Smerk). parvenue Galleries pose on the mete of the construct and in the future. like a shot the British Museum occupies well-nigh half dozen acres. '