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Explore the British Museum with a guide and experience one of the greatest stories of all time. On the tour you'll learn how humans went from living…
See art and antiquities from around the world at the UK’s largest museum. Take a 1.5-hour guided tour of the British Museum in London, and explore…
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You could spend all day browsing London’s grand British Museum collection, but if you only have a couple hours, here’s the essentials of what to see.
Soldiers in Napoleon’s army discovered the Rosetta Stone (196 BC), the most critical key to deciphering Egypt’s hieroglyphics, in 1799.
Sometimes called the Elgin Marbles, these 2,500 year-old remnants of ancient Greece have been on display at the British museum since 1817.
She is one of the most studied mummies of modern times. Katebet, the ‘King of the Gods’ sang and performed rituals during temple rituals in ancient Egypt.
The British Museum holds a set of Samurai armor made up from different periods—the cuirass and sleeves is 16th century, helmet, 17th, and the rest, 18th and 19th.
This 5,000 year-old game was popular across the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt and Indian. This particular item dates from about 2600 BC and was found in southern Iraq.
How do you decide how much time to dedicate to the British Museum? It's difficult to say when faced with such a massive collection. These are just the highlights; you'd barely scratch the surface of all 8,000,000 objects within a few hours time. It is free to enter, so there is absolutely no rush. Ideally, budget for a day spent inside wandering through history.
This means that it will be busiest on rainy days. Try to plan ahead and arrive at the 10:00AM opening.
Guide was very good and the tour was very informative and interesting -it whet our appetites to discover more treasures in the museum on our own. There were supposed to be more people on our tour but they did not show up so we had the guide all to ourselves for the tour! Guide was very patient - I had to use a wheelchair as I had a broken foot and could not walk up all the stairs so we used the lifts where we could. I believe her name is the Italian version of Valerie. Lovely young woman and a credit to your tour company.
We had our 9 year old and 15 year old daughters on the tour with us. Melissa did a great job answering all their questions and making the tour interesting to both of them, while at the same time making sure that the adults also were engaged and learned a lot. I would recommend the tour to anyone with an interest in truly appreciating all the unique items on display at the British Museum.
The guide was great. We learned so many things - was amazing. He made the point of contacting me via Whatsapp to get details on the meeting point (which I didn't read of course). The telephone number for enquiries was easily found on the app and the operator made a great deal at answering me very quickly (help, can't find the guide). I'd recommend anyone to do this tour.
We totally enjoyed our time with Roberta at the British Museum and would highly recommend her. She was inspiring and very knowledgeable about the works — and welcomed some of us “chiming in” with more bits of info. One can imagine that some tour guides might find this tiresome— but she was totally charming!
The tour guide (Natacha) was superb, both in the clarity of her explanations of what we were seeing, but in the wisdom she displayed in how the objects fit together historically. It was an outstanding experience. We could never have navigated this incredible and complex museum without her help.
