British Museum

British Museum (the) Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury. a huge building in the classic style of architecture, completed in 1845, for the exhibition of antiquities. Marbles, Manuscripts, Bas reliefs, Greek and Roman Sculptures, Vases, Bronzes, Gold Ornaments and Gems, etc. , etc. The Great Reading Room (permission to regularly. use which is to be obtained from the principal' Librarian) was built in 1857, and is a huge circular structure with a dome. Visitors to the Museum are allowed to look into this room from the doorway. The Libraries of the Museum comprise 2,000,000 volumes, and as a copy of each book published is required to be deposited there the increase annually is very considerable. The whole of the Galleries of the Museum are open free to the public daily from until 6, except some departments on Tuesday and Thursday used for students. In the winter time the Eastern and Western Galleries are open on alternate days. On Sundays the Museum is open from 2 till dusk, or at latest o'clock. The buses from Regent Circus to the Bank pass very near to the Museum. Gower Street is nearest, by Metropolitan Railway.