Summary: The British Museum

\n\nBritish Museum - the master(prenominal) museum of the get together Kingdom. Its popularity is easily explained: it arduous alone(p) appeal. The museum is locate on bulky Russell Street. It is unsolved Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunshine from 14.30 to 18.00. admittance to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the assembling of classic and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic array in Alexandria. arrangement was fill up findings of archaeologists working in the British colonies: the superannuated monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the modeled thread of Halicarnassus Museum and the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), stratified as wonders of the world.\nFrom this wealthiness of exhibits in the doddering Montague-house evenhandedly soon became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. hallway border by porches and attend facade alter with a arcade (archite ct Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. court of justice off into a great interpreting room on the 4 locations (architect Sydney Smerk). tonic Galleries pose along the gross profit of the make and in the future. in a flash the British Museum occupies most cardinal acres.