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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The scholar who first discovered that the Noah's Ark story predates the Bible got so excited that he stripped off his clothes and ran naked around the British Museum.
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The British Museum may owe its existence to a muffin: founder Sir Hans Sloane was appalled when Handel put a buttered muffin on one of his rare books, and his collection later became the museum.
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The British Museum has mermaids on display, half monkey and half fish sewn together, of the kind P.T. Barnum exhibited.
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The most searched-for item on the British Museum's website is its Egyptian collection and mummies.
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The British Museum holds a collection of shunga, Japanese erotica.
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The British Museum's founder Sir Hans Sloane donated a collection that originally included accounts of a nine-foot dragon terrorizing Essex and an army of horses that teleported to rural Wales.
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The British Museum holds one of the few surviving oracle bones, engraved or painted with pictures and used for divination.
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