British Museum

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    Plan your visit

    Book tickets and plan your day including exhibitions, facilities, access, food and travel.

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    Museum map

    Navigate the Museum with ease, using our floor-by-floor plan and discover what not to miss.

  • Visitors examining the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian Sculpture gallery

    Galleries

    Walk through two million years of history and culture across more than 50 galleries.

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    Family visits

    From family facilities to activities and events, discover how to make the most of your day at the Museum.

What's online...

  • A group of smurfs and a black Egyptian cat gathered around the front of the British Museum.

    The Smurfs and Bastet trail

    Step into a magical adventure and help the Smurfs defeat Gargamel with this free family trail through six galleries across the Museum.

  • The hand of a curator points towards a series of colourful rickshaw panels laid flat on a table.

    Diary of a documentation curator

    Go behind the scenes with Anaïs as she reveals the many lives of a set of painted rickshaw panels – from Bangladesh to the British Museum.

  • Heart-shaped gold pendant with enamel rose and pomegranate, suspended from a hand-shaped clasp on a gold-link chain

    Britain's greatest treasure finds

    Whether found by accident or by dedicated detectorists, learn how extraordinary discoveries by members of the public are reshaping history.

UK and the world

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    Research

    Driving the care, display and understanding of the collection, find out about projects, studentships and publications.

  • Four of the Lewis Chessmen on the board facing the viewer.

    Departments

    Learn about our research departments, outreach, training, study rooms and access to the collection.

  • A visitor examines an exhibit in Courtly India, Room 47

    National

    Find out how the Museum shares expertise and the collection across more than 250 UK cultural organisations.

  • A tour of the Museum, arranged under the Iraq Scheme

    International

    Loans, research and touring exhibitions are some of the many ways we build ties internationally. See our current collaborations.

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