Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
British Museum
About British Museum
One of the UK's main national museums, although despite it's name, it focuses mostly on other countries.
Has an impressive collection from Egypt, Greece, Roman remains and a host of other item specific collections such as the clocks or money galleries.
Most of the galleries lead off a huge central courtyard which is under glass.
You can easily spend a day there.
A tip for visitors - the main entrance is often very busy with queues, but the entrance on Montage Place usually has much quieter, although occasionally they close it to the public.
Address
British Museum,
Great Russell Street,
London,
WC1B 3DG
Ticket prices
The museum is free to visit. The temporary exhibitions usually charge for entry, but they make up only a small part of the museum collection.
This exhibition transports you across the Roman Empire through the life and service of a real Roman soldier, Claudius Terentianus, from enlistment and campaigns to enforcing occupation and then finally retirement.
Open from Thu 1st February 2024 to Sun 23rd June 2024
A golden letter sent from Burma to Britain, studded with rubies will go on display later this year as part of an exhibition looking at the long history of the two countries.
A huge map of the known world at the time opens an exhibition about China’s “hidden century”, but unlike any map you might have seen before as it shows country size by their importance, so China dominates and Europe is a small insignificant blob in the far corner.
An exhibition opens with the two cultures facing each other, a Persian facing off against a Greek, but rather than rivals as is usually portrayed in the history books, both statues come from Cyprus, where they were jointly worshiped.
A scale model of a Japanese festival float that was donated to the British Museum to mark the 1908 London Olympics has gone on display for a few weeks.
The British Museum has scrapped the £30 per year charge for people who join its young membership scheme, in a move that’s likely to boost membership of potential long term supporters long into the future.
China’s long 19th century is the topic of the British Museum’s summer blockbuster exhibition, looking at the lives of the last line of China’s emperors.
Sitting in the centre of the British Museum is a huge Round Reading Room, with a massive dome, and although long closed to the public, the museum has started offering tours.
Prompted by the annual Indiana Jones movie repeats on Channel 4 the other day, I was reminded that the British Museum owns a Crystal Skull, and it’s on display.
The British Museum has chosen an unusual way of marking the centenary of Tutankhamun’s discovery, and some people will love it, and umm, some are likely to loathe it.
Ancient glass vessels, shattered in Beirut’s devastating port explosion have gone on display in London for a few weeks before they are returned to Lebanon.
It seems that many of us would struggle to live without a daily coffee, and an exhibition at the British Museum looks at the history of coffee, as a drink and cultural phenomenon.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of mankind’s great achievements, the decyphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the British Museum is planning an exhibition that explores this pivotal moment.
As the Head of State, the Queen’s head appears on our currency, and a new exhibition looks at how that head was designed for the first coins of the second Elizabethan age.
A new exhibition will be opening in May at the British Museum that explores female spiritual beings in world belief and mythological traditions around the globe.
If your idea of ancient Peru is all death cults, mountainous Incan cities, and that curious era where seemingly every UK high street had Peruvian pan-pipe players at weekends, then the British Museum is about to change your mind radically.
For the first time since they were made around 200 years ago, a set of exceptionally rare drawings from the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai have gone on public display.
