The British museum大英博物馆

Established in 1753.The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centered on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor. The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million objects. are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
The Elgin Marbles
埃尔金大理石雕塑
The Elgin Marbles is part of the ancient Greek Parthenon sculptures and architectural remnants, so far has a history of more than 2500 years. The Elgin marbles is one of the most representative exhibits of the British museum.
History of the British Museum
three treasures of the British Museum
The Rosetta Stone of Egypt 埃及罗塞塔石碑
The collection was made in 196 BC, after napoleon's defeat in Egypt, Britain acquired one of the most precious cultural relics in Egypt. The stone tablet has the same content in Greek, the ancient Egyptian and temporal popular writing system. It’s an important milestone to research ancient Egyptian history.
2. Focus on the collection of the well-known British collector through the ages, almost put the encyclopedia visualization, especially in the field of natural history, with the encyclopedia made the modern enlightenment for human together.
3.采取免费或者极低收费策略，塑造了博物馆公益事业的形象。 3. Take a free or low-Βιβλιοθήκη Baiduost strategy, shaping the image of the museum of public welfare undertakings.
4.同卢浮宫、埃尔米塔什博物馆和大都会博物馆一起构建了物质文化领域的殖民主义世界文化秩序，自 身则构建了英国在近代的世界霸主地位。 4. With the Louvre museum and the metropolitan museum of art together to build the field of material culture in the colonialism world’s cultural order, itself is built in modern British dominance in the world. 5.以大英博物馆为首的英国博物馆体系仍然是世界博物馆界的主流（虽然法国人会根本不承认），是世 界博物馆发展的动力源泉之一。 5. The British museum system, led by the British museum, is still the mainstream of the museum world (although the French will not admit), is one of the power source for the development of the world museum.
(Ground Floor， including Level 0-2)、 (Upper Floor， includingLevel3-5)、 (Lower Floor， including Level-1、-2)
Africa pavilion , pavilion , pavilion of ancient Egypt , ancient Greek and Roman pavilion , pavilion in Asia , Europe , the Middle East pavilion , special exhibition hall
Admonitions Scroll
Admonitions Scroll is the earliest Chinese silk painting, has the milestone significance in Chinese art history. It is this for the Qing empire, the Qianlong emperor's love, hidden in the old Summer Palace. In 1860, British and French troops invaded Beijing, British army stolen it from the old Summer Palace. It’s one of the most important Oriental cultural relics in the British museum.
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Significance of the British Museum
1.确定了博物馆的公共地位，“既不属于国王、也不属于教会、更不属于贵族”，而是属于英国全 体国民，成为了“典范意义的博物馆”。
1. Determine the museum's public status, "does not belong to the king, and do not belong to the church, more do not belong to the aristocracy", but belongs to the English the nation, has become the "apotheosis of museum". 2.集中了历代英国知名收藏家的藏品，几乎把百科全书具象化，特别是在博物学领域，和百科全书 共同对人类进行了现代化启蒙。