British Museum
About British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum. In 2025, the museum received 6,440,120 visitors and was the second most visited attraction in the United Kingdom.
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I took Craig Glende, who is the Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief, to the British Museum to meet the world's oldest ghost to give it a Guinness World Record.
from 467: No Such Thing As Free Laundry, 2023-02-24 at 00:42:01 · read transcript
Other times British Museum came up
He was a really good friend with Hogarth, the artist, and so he was probably the most painted man in England at the time, because Hogarth used to paint him all the time, but Hogarth used to complain because he moved his face so much all the time that he couldn't paint him properly. Oh wow. Really? There's one portrait of him, which is in the British Museum, I think. It's called a mechanical portrait, and it's a picture of him being painted by Hogarth, but in the space where his face is, there's one of those spinning wheels behind the picture, and you can have 30 different facial expressions as you wheel around. He is very interesting.
No Such Thing As A Hedgehog Circus, 2020-01-03 · listen
It's like, you know, they've only done exactly the same as all the previous people have done. I guess it's because they've left out an itinerary of what they've taken from it, that that's the difference, that we're like, oh, OK, we know everything that was there before you stole it. Yeah. You just have to buy a flight to the British Museum in order to see it. I'm very sorry. Exactly.
378: No Such Thing As A Reverse-Waterslide, 2021-06-18 · listen
Because apparently octopuses have ways of changing their body whenever they're mating and stuff like that. I think there was an exhibition at the British Museum that had a bunch of these, effectively a monster erotica paintings. In the year that they were there, if you go to the website and you look at the data, there were more searches for that exhibition than there were for the opening hours of the British Museum.
No Such Thing As A Dice The Size Of The Universe, 2024-03-21 · listen
What do you suppose the two most popular things in the museum? What do you think the two most popular things are? Okay. I'm getting this from a British Museum blog from 2017. It might have changed since then. The mummies, I would say, people always go for the mummies, don't they? I'd say one, Egyptian collection, mummies is the number one most searched for thing on their website that people want to find out about.
No Such Thing As Tug of War for Clowns, 2020-11-27 · listen
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467: No Such Thing As Free Laundry put 2 places on the map.
- Guinness World Record · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.5194, -0.1270