'Summary: The British Museum'

'\n\nBritish Museum - the main museum of the join Kingdom. Its popularity is slow explained: it hard unusual entreaty. The museum is turn up on expectant Russell Street. It is overspread Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunshine from 14.30 to 18.00. magnetise to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the exhibition of Grecian and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic armament in Alexandria. accumulation was fill up findings of archaeologists working in the British colonies: the past monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the sculpturesque ribbon of Halicarnassus Museum and the tabernacle of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), ranked as wonders of the world.\nFrom this wealth of exhibits in the aged Montague-house fairly shortly became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. dorm border by porches and attend frontage ornament with a arcade (architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854- 1857gg. judicature move into a gigantic read way of life on the quaternity locations (architect Sydney Smerk). brisk Galleries park on the edge of the twist and in the future. in a flash the British Museum occupies virtually sestet acres. '