'Summary: The British Museum'

'\n\nBritish Museum - the main museum of the united Kingdom. Its popularity is easily explained: it laborious unique collection. The museum is located on extensive Russell Street. It is open Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunshine from 14.30 to 18.00. Entrance to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the collection of Hellenic and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic troops in Alexandria. Collection was fill findings of archaeologists working in the British colonies: the antique monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the graven decoration of Halicarnassus Museum and the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), ranked as wonders of the world.\nFrom this wealth of exhibits in the superannuated Montague-house pretty concisely became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. foyer surrounded by porches and front frontage decorated with a colonnade (architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854-185 7gg. courtyard turn into a colossal reading means on the quaternity locations (architect Sydney Smerk). New Galleries set along the circuit of the building and in the future. Now the British Museum occupies nearly sixsome acres. '