British Museum
The British Museum in London is dedicated to history and culture. The museum showcases 13 million odd works from different continents and is among the largest and comprehensive museums.
The museum is dedicated to exhibit the origins of human existence and culture to the present day.
Holiday Lets London highly recommends that the Britain Museum is a place to visit during your stay in London. The museum houses many artefacts that are first to the human culture and in Britain.
The museum was first opened to the public in 1759 and until 1997 when the British Library moved the museum was unique as the museum housed antiquities and a national library in a whole. Sir Hans Sloane is the founder of the British Museum and most of the collections are of Sloane’s ‘curiosities’ collected during his life time. In 1840 the museum became involved in the first overseas excavation in Charles Fellow’s expedition to Xanthos in Asia Minor. The museum has the largest object collection enlisted in its website amounting to 2,000,000 individual object entries.
The British Museum houses the most amounts of Egyptian antiquities close to 100,000 pieces. Egyptian antiquities have been a part of the British Museum since its establishment as it received 160 pieces from Sir Hans Sloane. The British museum holds the most number of collections of mummies outside Cairo and also has the infamous Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes.
The British Museum also holds the largest collection of Classical World in its Department of Greece and Rome. The oldest artefacts are from the Greek Bronze Age dating to 3200 BC.
The British Museum is a façade of history and awe. Holiday Lets London, one of highly booked holiday studios in London for self catering accommodation, state it is sincerely recommended for any vacationer to visit the British Museum to engross oneself in the beginnings of time. On request for places to visit by any vacationer our Holiday Lets London short term staffs recommend the British Museum as one it is entertained by the diversity of antiquities that one was not aware of beforehand.
Apart from Paris and Vienna the British Museum holds the best collection for Western Prints and Drawings. Like any other iconic site in London the British Museum is connected to controversy as some items in the collection are disputed due to claiming.
History in London is of no shortage. Holiday Lets London can whip up a platter of the most intriguing places to visit in London according to your palate of interest. Holiday Lets London short stay provides self catering accommodation to many tourists looking to rent a flat in London or a holiday studio in London. Also our Holiday Lets London staffs are trained to help you have a memorable stay in London. Write to us expressing your areas of interest for site seeing and our Holiday Lets London staff can help you take back home a lot of history.
