The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture. Its collections are made up of over 7 million objects, and they are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world. These objects originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.

Established in 1753, The British Museum was largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane and it wasn’t until 1759 that the museum was first opened to the public in Montagu House in Bloomsbury. The museum expanded over the following two and a half centuries and was largely a result of expanding British colonial footprint. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and calls for restitution to their countries of origin.

Until 1997, when the British Library moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee.

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