Highlights Tour of the British Museum

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Highlights Tour of the British Museum

The British Museum has preserved a universality in its collections of artifacts representing many cultures from ancient times to the modern world.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum. Here are the highlights.

Collections of the British Museum

Ancient Egypt and Sudan Collection

The Rosetta Stone
The Battlefield Palette 3100 BC
Quartzite Head of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III
Colossal Granite Statue of Amenhotep III
Hunters Palette
Tomb of Nebamun
Younger Memnon (Ramesses II)
Book of the Dead – Papyrus of Ani and Hunefe
Mummy of Katebet

Middle East Collection

The Lion Hunt
Cyrus Cylinder
Royal Game of Ur
Gilgamesh Flood Tablet
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
Standard of Ur
Ram in a Thicket
Tell al-‘Ubaid Copper Lintel
Assyrian Sacred Tree – Wall Panel Relief
Babylonian Map of the World Tablet

Ancient Greece and Rome Collection

Marble figure of a Woman – Spedos Type
The Parthenon Marbles
The Parthenon Frieze
Metopes of the Parthenon
Pedimental Sculptures of the Parthenon
The Erechtheion Caryatid
Lion from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Bust of Pericles
Aegina Treasure
Townley Caryatid
Bronze Statue of a Youth
Thalia, Muse of Comedy
Nereid Monument
Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa
Lely Venus – Crouching Aphrodite
Tomb of Payava
Marble Portrait Bust of the Blind Poet Homer
“Boy with Thorn” or “Spinario”
Townley Discobolus
Portland Vase
The Knucklebone Player

Britain, Europe, and Prehistory Collection

Ain Sakhri Lovers
Wolverine Pendant of Les Eyzies – Prehistoric Portable Art
Antler Perforated Baton – Paleolithic Portable Art
Prehistoric Petrosphere – Carved Stone Spheres and Balls
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Lewis Chessmen
Holy Thorn Reliquary
Mechanical Galleon
Black St George Icon
Knight Aquamanile
Gold Mold Cape
Battersea Shield
Mildenhall Treasure – Great Plate of Bacchus
Lindow Man

Asian Collection

Seated Buddha from Gandhara
Statue of Tara
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Avalokiteshvara – Guanyin
Nandi – Figure of the Humped Bull of Śiva
Garuda
Budai Hesheng
Luohan – Yixian Glazed Ceramic Sculpture

Africa, Oceania and the Americas Collection

Double-Headed Serpent
Hoa Hakananai’a / Moai from Easter Island
Hawaiian Feathered Helmet
Bronze Head from Ife
Benin Ivory Mask

The Prints and Drawings Collection

“Studies of a Reclining Male Nude” by Michelangelo
Newport Castle by J. M. W. Turner
“Hampstead Heath” by John Constable
“The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai
“Rainstorm Beneath the Summit” by Katsushika Hokusai

Information on The British Museum

Masterpieces of the British Museum

Museum: British Museum
City: London
Established: 1753
Location: Great Russell Street, London, UK
Collection: 8 million objects
Visitors: 7 million annually

Schliemann’s Lies about excavating Troy

The Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles

Making a 9th century Iraqi Lustreware Bowl Replica

How to make a Celtic Torc

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“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
– Winston Churchill

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Photo Credit: © Hans Hillewaert; British Museum [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]; British Museum [Public domain]; Jon Bodsworth [Public domain]; Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]; Einsamer Schütze [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]; © Hans Hillewaert; British Museum [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]; British Museum [Public domain]; Jon Bodsworth [Public domain]; Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]; Einsamer Schütze [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)];

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