The British Museum 20th century

British Museum. Early 1900s

British Museum security staff on front steps. 1902.

British Museum Reading Room. May 1907.

Prints and Drawings student’s room under construction 1913.

Photograph of the opening of the King Edward VII wing (north wing and entrance) on 7 May 1914.

Manuscript Saloon in 1922.

Front hall at the British Museum in 1929.

A view of the steps and colonnade of the British Museum with the stone statue of Hoa Haka Nana Ia and a a wooden carved Native American totem pole displayed outside. People sitting on the steps of the museum with one woman walking up. About 1935. Bay trees introduced by Director Sir George Hill. 

Bomb damage World War 2 1940s

Room 2, Gallery build, March 2005.

Front of Museum. August 2005

Great Court 2006