British Museum in London, one of the world's largest

During your stay in London you can not stop visiting the British Museum, one of the world's largest harbors where much of the history and culture of mankind.

This museum, which was open to the public in the year 1759 at Montagu House in Bloomsbury on collections donated to the United Kingdom by the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane, for two and a half centuries has ido grow in a way that has led to other venues that meet thematic collections such as the Museum of Natural History in 1887 and founded a century later the National Library.

The impressive British Museum has in its interior with 13 million objects from all over the planet distributed in 10 departments:
Ancient Egypt and Sudan - Ancient Greece and Rome - Middle East - Print and Drawings - Asia - Medals and Decorations - Africa, Oceania and the americas - Prehistory and Europe - Conservation, documentation and science - Library and Archives.

Of course the building has undergone modifications and additions has through the ages, and one of the rooms had been built more recently is the Grand Atrium of Queen Elizabeth II, which is located in the heart of the museum and has been inaugurated in 2000.

Among the famous works and pieces that can be seen are the Parthenon Marbles, the bust of Pericles, drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci, Rubens, Rembrandt and Goya among others, the famous Rosetta Stone and the largest collection of porcelain from China Europe .

You can access all the rooms of the British Museum free of charge, except when special exhibit samples.