Private Tour: Discovering the British Museum

Itinerary
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Stop At: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG England

The Museum is the largest ethnographic Museum in the world - culture is its theme. It represents not only British culture but it is a collection of World cultures such as the Egyptian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Pacific Ocean, the Americas and Eastern Cultures etc. This British Museum tour is ideal for a personalised perspective on the collections. Everything is huge here, like the recently refurbished hall called the Great Court. The Museum owns over 9 million objects, of which 2 million are on display. You may not see them all!!! Some of the most important - starting from the very beginning - is the

one million and six hundred thousand year old Hand Ax from Africa; to some of the rarest and best kept

Egyptian statues;

the Rosetta Stone;

the Egyptian Mummies;

the Assyrian Palace's Freezes with details of their battles quoted in the Bible, and among them

the Lion Hunt; also inluded is

the Mesopotamian 2000 B.C. Standard of Ur - from the small but powerful Mesopotamian town where Abraham was born and lived in those years; to

the Parthenon Sculptures, as well as Roman sculptures like

the Portland Vase; Caesar’s and Augustus’s Iate I century BC busts and

the Anglo Saxon Hoards recently discovered found buried in Britain after the Roman Conquest etc. from 400 AD.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG England

Halfway through our tour, we will take a 15 minute break for rest and refreshments!

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG England

This is where the tour will end.

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes