Please see the main page at the
British Museum – Virtual Tour
This page is an index page.
Highlights Tour of the British Museum
The British Museum has preserved a universality in its collections of artifacts representing many cultures from ancient times to the modern world.
The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum. Here are the highlights.
Collections of the British Museum
Ancient Egypt and Sudan Collection
- The Rosetta Stone
- The Battlefield Palette 3100 BC
- Quartzite Head of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III
- Colossal Granite Statue of Amenhotep III
- Hunters Palette
- Tomb of Nebamun
- Younger Memnon (Ramesses II)
- Book of the Dead – Papyrus of Ani and Hunefe
- Mummy of Katebet
Middle East Collection
- The Lion Hunt
- Cyrus Cylinder
- Royal Game of Ur
- Gilgamesh Flood Tablet
- Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
- Standard of Ur
- Ram in a Thicket
- Tell al-‘Ubaid Copper Lintel
- Assyrian Sacred Tree – Wall Panel Relief
- Babylonian Map of the World Tablet
Ancient Greece and Rome Collection
- Marble figure of a Woman – Spedos Type
- The Parthenon Marbles
- The Parthenon Frieze
- Metopes of the Parthenon
- Pedimental Sculptures of the Parthenon
- The Erechtheion Caryatid
- Lion from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- Bust of Pericles
- Aegina Treasure
- Townley Caryatid
- Bronze Statue of a Youth
- Thalia, Muse of Comedy
- Nereid Monument
- Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa
- Lely Venus – Crouching Aphrodite
- Tomb of Payava
- Marble Portrait Bust of the Blind Poet Homer
- “Boy with Thorn” or “Spinario”
- Townley Discobolus
- Portland Vase
- The Knucklebone Player
Britain, Europe, and Prehistory Collection
- Ain Sakhri Lovers
- Wolverine Pendant of Les Eyzies – Prehistoric Portable Art
- Antler Perforated Baton – Paleolithic Portable Art
- Prehistoric Petrosphere – Carved Stone Spheres and Balls
- The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
- Lewis Chessmen
- Holy Thorn Reliquary
- Mechanical Galleon
- Black St George Icon
- Knight Aquamanile
- Gold Mold Cape
- Battersea Shield
- Mildenhall Treasure – Great Plate of Bacchus
- Lindow Man
Asian Collection
- Seated Buddha from Gandhara
- Statue of Tara
- Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
- Avalokiteshvara – Guanyin
- Nandi – Figure of the Humped Bull of Śiva
- Garuda
- Budai Hesheng
- Luohan – Yixian Glazed Ceramic Sculpture
Africa, Oceania and the Americas Collection
- Double-Headed Serpent
- Hoa Hakananai’a / Moai from Easter Island
- Hawaiian Feathered Helmet
- Bronze Head from Ife
- Benin Ivory Mask
The Prints and Drawings Collection
- “Studies of a Reclining Male Nude” by Michelangelo
- Newport Castle by J. M. W. Turner
- “Hampstead Heath” by John Constable
- “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai
- “Rainstorm Beneath the Summit” by Katsushika Hokusai
Information on The British Museum
The British Museum
- Museum: British Museum
- City: London
- Established: 1753
- Location: Great Russell Street, London, UK
- Collection: 8 million objects
- Visitors: 7 million annually
Schliemann’s Lies about excavating Troy
The Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles
Making a 9th century Iraqi Lustreware Bowl Replica
How to make a Celtic Torc
~~~
“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
– Winston Churchill
~~~
Photo Credit: © Hans Hillewaert; British Museum [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]; British Museum [Public domain]; Jon Bodsworth [Public domain]; Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]; Einsamer Schütze [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]; © Hans Hillewaert; British Museum [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]; British Museum [Public domain]; Jon Bodsworth [Public domain]; Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]; Einsamer Schütze [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)];
Popular this Week
