The British Museum

About the The 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.

The museum is free to visit, although the major temporary exhibitions often have to be paid for.

You can easily spend a day there.

Address

The British Museum,
Great Russell Street,
London,
WC1B 3DG

Admission Charges

Entry is FREE

Link to The British Museum's website

The British Museum Opening Hours

This Week

Sun

14th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Mon

15th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Tues

16th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Wed

17th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Thur

18th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Fri

19th Jul

10:00am - 8:30pm

Sat

20th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Next Week

Sun

21st Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Mon

22nd Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Tues

23rd Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Wed

24th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Thur

25th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Fri

26th Jul

10:00am - 8:30pm

Sat

27th Jul

10:00am - 5:30pm

Exhibitions Open Now

£17 Edvard Munch: love and angst

Discover this pioneering, subversive artist as the British Museum lifts the veil on his life and works in the largest show of his prints in the UK for 45 years.
(Ending Soon! Sun, 21st Jul)

£19.50 Manga

Enter a graphic world where art and storytelling collide in the largest exhibition of manga ever to take place outside of Japan.
(Open 23rd May 2019 to 26th Aug 2019)

Free Playing with Money: currency and games

This exhibition looks at how modern board games, educational toys, gambling and role-playing games reflect, inform and shape our understanding of economics and money.
(Open 18th Apr 2019 to 29th Sep 2019)

Free Rembrandt: Thinking on paper

Comprising 65 prints and drawings, this exhibition highlights Rembrandt’s technical and creative ingenuity on paper.
(Open 21st Apr 2019 to 4th Aug 2019)

Free Symbolist prints

From the languid morphine addicts depicted by Albert Besnard to the disturbing smiling spider in the lithograph by Odilon Redon, all of the prints on display come from the British Museum’s rich collection of graphic work.
(Ending Soon! Thu, 18th Jul)

Free The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard

In this, the first major museum display of artists’ postcards, discover both the politics and playfulness of this unique collection of 300 postcards.
(Open 21st Apr 2019 to 4th Aug 2019)

Forthcoming events at The British Museum

£15.00 Rembrandt: thinking on paper

Curator Olenka Horbatsch offers an insight into the work of Rembrandt - one of the world's most renowned artists - by looking at his lesser-known works on paper and in print

Monday, 29th Jul: Starts at 12am

£15.00 The life of Leonardo da Vinci

Join world-renowned Leonardo da Vinci expert, Martin Kemp, for a discussion of his 50-year relationship with the work of the most famous artist of all time.

Monday, 12th Aug: Starts at 12am

£30.00 The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology - With Barry Kemp, Amarna Project

A talk about the ongoing works at Amarna, the ‘House of the Aten’ the centre of Akhenaten's cult of the sun

Thursday, 19th Sep: Starts at 12am

Free Revelation in revision | How alterations to a woodcut block change the history of Huygens’ pendulum clock invention

Sebastian Whitestone will seek to derive this evidence and resolve the contradictions to an audience where questions will be encouraged.

Thursday, 28th Nov: Starts at 12am