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You could spend a day here and still come away wishing you had seen more! Despite the name, this isn’t a museum about Britain – the collections include artefacts from all over the world (including controversially some that people feel should have stayed where they were, such as the Elgin Marbles from the Acropolis), and span 2 million years of history. Some highlights: ~ From Ancient Egypt (one of my favourite collections): statuary & decorated architecture, inscribed with hieroglyphs; coffins & mummies of individuals; furniture, fine jewellery & other burial goods. ~ From Imperial China: calligraphy, paintings & ceramics (and in 2008 there will be an exhibition featuring some of the Terracotta Army from Xian) ~ From Anglo-Saxon: one of the most impressive collections, the treasures from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. ~ From the Aztecs: stone & ceramic sculptures; musical instruments such as drums, decorated with intricate carvings; rare turquoise mosaics. ~ From Iron Age Britain: one of the items that has fascinated me since I first saw it, Lindow Man. This is the body of a man discovered in August 1984 when workmen were cutting peat at Lindow Moss bog in NW England. The conditions in the peat bog meant that the man’s skin, hair and many of his internal organs are well preserved, and scientists have been able to do lots of research to learn about his life and death, concluding that he was probably the victim of a ritual sacrifice by druids. Do open up my 2nd photo to see a view of the museum few people will get – the stunning green glass roof photographed from above. This is part of the wonderful view I enjoy from my office window :) Admission is free, as it is to all the major museums in London. Open every day 10.00-17.30, and later on Thursdays and Fridays. Phone: 0 20 7323 8299Directions: Nearest tube is Holborn (Central & Piccadilly lines) – the museum is signposted from the station. It’s also an easy walk from Russell Square (Piccadilly line), Tottenham Court Road (Central line) & Goodge Street (Northern line)Website: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
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| | | | British Museum: Enlightenment at the British Museum | Tip Rating: | | | | |
There are always some exhibitions going on at The British Museum, some of them are permanent exhibitions and others no, however, still very interesting to see. One of my favourites is the Great Court and Circle Library, as the Entrance at the Museum..... hmmmm I can stay hours and hours there, watching and enlightening myself. [See picture :-) Also, there is one piece of Art I really like in the Egypt section.... The Rosetta Stone! If you come to London and to the British Museum, do not miss it! is amazing! The Rosetta Stone data from the Fort St Julien, el-Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC. It is a valuable key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests, one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation. The decree is inscribed on the stone three times, in hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and Greek (the language of the administration). The importance of this to Egyptology is immense. Soon after the end of the fourth century AD the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. In the early years of the nineteenth century, some 1400 years later, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher them. Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The French scholar Jean-Fran?ois Champollion then realized that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture. Height: 114.4 cm (max.) Width: 72.3 cm Thickness: 27.9 cm Leave a Comment Phone: 0 20 7323 8299Directions: Holborn tubeWebsite: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
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| | | | British Museum: The Great Court of the British Museum | Tip Rating: | | | | |
Almost as soon as you go through the front entrance of the British Museum, you will find yourself in the Great Court. This is a very new addition to the British Museum, having been built for the year 2000 celebrations by Norman Foster. There is something of the Louvre Pyramid (in Paris France) about it. In the middle of this court is a world famous reading room, with shops selling iitems related to the muesum around the outside of the reading room. If you want to get a good picture, just before you go into the Great Hall, go up the staircase to the left, and once you get up to the first floor, look out for a little opening looking down on to the hall. It's stops people getting in the way of your shot. If I remember correctly, before this great court was built, there was just a big open courtyard which was open air, so you had to go into this to move between different sections of the museum. These days, the Great Hall makes a great focal point. Leave a Comment Phone: 0 20 7323 8299Directions: Holborn tubeWebsite: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
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