After our Victorian Tea at the Victoria and Albert Museum it was off across London to the British Museum. Starting with a bequest of 71,000 objects from Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, the British Museum is now a vast complex of 78 galleries and 8 million objects spanning the history of the world’s cultures from stone age man to the 21st century.
As usual I was as interested in the architecture as much as the contents, particularly Sir Norman Foster’s glass roof to create The Great Courtyard in the year 2000. If I visited the museum every day for the rest of my life I couldn’t absorb all that is on display. I just concentrated on a few things: the Rosetta Stone, Ancient Egypt and the Mummies, the friezes and sculptures of the Parthenon, and clocks and watches. So the photos are a bit of an eclectic mixture.
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- The British Museum
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- The British Museum
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- The British Museum
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- The Great Court, The British Museum
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- The Great Court, The British Museum
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- The Great Court, The British Museum
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- The Great Court, The British Museum
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- Ancient Egypt Death and Afterlife
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- The Great Court, The British Museum
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- The Reading Room, The British Museum
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- The Great Court, The British Museum
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- The Rosetta Stone, bears a text in Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek
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- Ancient Greek amphora, 520-500 BC
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- Sculpture from The Parthenon, 447-432 BC
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- Frieze from The Parthenon, 447-432 BC
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- Frieze from The Parthenon, 447-432 BC
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- Frieze from The Parthenon, 447-432 BC
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- The Parthenon Room, friezes and sculptures
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- Sculpture from The Parthenon, 447-432 BC
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- The Parthenon Room, friezes and sculptures
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- The Parthenon Room, friezes and sculptures
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- Full size replica of part of The Parthenon, The doric column and capital are original the rest a mock up
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- The Nereid Monument from Xanthos, Turkey 390-380 BC
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- Statue of crouching Aphrodite (Venus)
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- Ancient Egypt, statue of Ramesses II, the largest Egyptian statue in the British Museum
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- Ancient Egyptian statues
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- Ancient Egyptian statues
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- Prudhoe red granite lion of Amenhotep III
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- Ancient Sekhmet lion and cat goddesses from Luxor
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- Ancient Sekhmet lion goddess from Luxor
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- The Great Court, the British Museum
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- The Great Court, the British Museum
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- The Great Court, the British Museum
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- The Great Court, the British Museum
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- Roaring lion representing King Nebuchadnezzar II, southern Iraq 605-562 BC
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- Mechanical Galleon, 1585, it moved, played music, sailors rang bells and fired its thirteen guns
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- Turret Clock, 1610
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- Wooden clocks
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- Rolling ball clock 1805
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- Carillon clock, based on the cathedral clock in Strasbourg, 1589
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- Mechanical clocks
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- Grandfather clocks
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- More modern clocks
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- Stopwatches
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- The Sutton Hoo Helmet, Anglo-Saxon, AD 600s
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- Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo Helmet
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- The Age of Enlightenment – collecting the world
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- An orrery – a mechanical model of the Solar System
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- The Age of Enlightenment – collecting the world
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- The British Museum
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- The British Museum
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- The British Museum
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- The British Museum
