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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 first public national museum to cov…
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 first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
  • Established: 7 June 1753
  • Location: Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, England
  • Area: 807,000 sq ft (75,000 m²) in · 94 galleries
  • Collection size: Approx. 8 million objects
  • Visitors: 5,820,860 (2023; up 42% from 2022) · Ranked first nationally
  • Chair: George Osborne
  • Director: Nicholas Cullinan

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