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The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
The Valley Gardens at Windsor Great Park Natural History Museum, London British Museum, London This article lists the most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom , including art galleries , gardens , zoos , theatres , libraries and museums .
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID 19 pandemic.
American Museum of Natural History: New York City: 1869 Natural History: 166,296 m 2 (1,790,000 sq ft) [6] [7] 32,000,000 [8] United States: British Museum: London: 1753 Archaeology and art 92,000 m 2 (990,000 sq ft) [9] 65,752 m 2 (707,750 sq ft) [9] More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world) United Kingdom: National Museum of China: Beijing ...
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 ...
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, is the covered central quadrangle of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster and Partners , from a 1970s design by Colin St John Wilson . [ 1 ]
The museum said the money from the 10-year deal will be used to redevelop the Bloomsbury site in central London and ensure its collection will be available to the public for “generations to come”.