1. Roger Vigo and Bryan Saez
British Museum LONDON
Roger Vigo and Bryan Saez

2. ADDRESS:Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom
The Bristish museum is
in Camden district,
located north of the
City of London and
the Westminster City district.
It is between Soho and Russell Square.

3. ARCHITECTS: Robert Smirke, Sydney Smirke, John Russell Pope, John James Burnet, Spencer de Gray, John Taylor.
It was founded in 1753 and was initially based on the collections of physicist and scientist Hans Sloane. It opened to the public for the first time on January 15, at the Montagu House in Bloomsbury, in the current location of the museum building.

4. Nowadays, the British Museum is mainly a cultural museum of works of art and antiques; Even so, when it was founded, it was born with the idea of ​​being a "universal museum". Initially, the museum nurtured the collection of works and pieces that the doctor and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane ( ) had collected throughout his life. To prevent his collection of relics from being divided after his death, he was sent to King George II of the United Kingdom, for the nation.

5. At that time, the collection of Sloane consisted of approximately 71
At that time, the collection of Sloane consisted of approximately objects of all kinds, of which were pictures, manuscripts, as well as an extensive history of natural species where there were 337 volumes of herbs, impressions and drawings.
The British Museum was the first of a new type of museum, national museums, which did not belong to any church or king, were freely open to the public and had the objective of collecting all human knowledge.

6. The British Museum
of London is the most
important museum in
the United Kingdom and
one of the most
important in the world
on history
and culture.

7. In the British Museum there are more than seven million objects that illustrate and document the history of human cultures, from this birth to the present, from parts of every continent. The museum, with more than visitors in the last years, is the Unite Kingdom’s museum with the highest number of visitors for year, followed by the National Gallery in London. It is one of the most visited museums in the world.

8. Number of visitors to the British Museum in London, England between 2008/09 and 2016/17 (in 1,000s)

9. More than half of the rooms are dedicated to Ancient Greece and Rome, and Ancient Egypt.

10. Special exhibitions
During the first months of this year, two special exhibitions can be visited.
Living with gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond
2 November 2017 – 8 April 2018
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece
26 April – 29 July 2018

11. Free exhibitions and displays
On violence and beauty: reflections on war
Until 21 January 2018
The business of prints
Until 28 January 2018