British Museum
Egyptian antiquities, Greek sculpture, Mesopotamian reliefs, and objects spanning two million years of human history across world civilisations.
The Parthenon SculpturesPheidias · 438–432 BC
The Parthenon SculpturesPheidias · 438–432 BC
Two million years of things people made to make sense of themselves.
ounded in 1753 from a single collector's bequest, the British Museum expanded through scholarship, exchange, and imperial reach into an encyclopedic record of human culture.
From early Olduvai handaxes to Tang funerary horses, an Egyptian sarcophagus to a Benin bronze—these objects are not merely relics of the worlds that made them, but living records of where we come from.
