The British Museum is located in the Great Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street, London, England. Founded in 1753, it was officially opened to the public from January 15, 1759. It is the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world, and one of the largest and most famous museums in the world.
The museum has collected many cultural relics and book treasures from all over the world. The richness and variety of collections are rare in museums around the world. At present, the museum has more than 6 million collections. Due to space constraints, there are still a large number of collections that have not been publicly displayed. The British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris are among the three largest museums in the world.
The British Museum includes the Egyptian Heritage Museum, the Greek and Roman Heritage Museum, the Western Asia Heritage Museum, the European Medieval Heritage Museum and the Oriental Art Heritage Museum. Among them, the collections of the Egyptian Museum of Cultural Relics, the Greek and Roman Museum of Cultural Relics and the Oriental Art Museum are the most eye-catching. The collection of ancient Roman relics, ancient Greek statues and Egyptian mummies is world-famous.