Museum review: British Museum

Roger

4 March 2007

Address: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Telephone: +44 20 7323 8000
Web site: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Admission: free
Streetmap: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530049&Y=181717&A=Y&Z=1
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Longitude: -0.127008
Latitude: 51.519412

Founded in 1753 and still one of the best museums of antiquity anywhere. Do not leave without visiting the Elgin Marbles, or whatever they're being called this year. And of course the Rosetta Stone, which is on the way in to them.

I still prefer the Reading Room as it was...

Things near here (straight-line distances):

Museum Tavern (pub) 0.1 miles SEbS
Plough (pub) 0.1 miles SSE
Abeno Okonomiyaki (restaurant) 0.1 miles SEbS
Bloomsbury Tavern (pub) 0.2 miles SbE
Jack Horner (pub) 0.2 miles WbS
Russell Square Station (Piccadilly Line) 0.2 miles NbE
Centre Point Sushi Cafe (restaurant) 0.2 miles SSW
Joi Cafe (restaurant) 0.3 miles WbS
Tottenham Court Road Station (Central Line, Northern Line) 0.3 miles SWbS
Holborn Station (Central Line, Piccadilly Line) 0.3 miles ESE
Black Horse (pub) 0.3 miles SWbW
Goodge Street Station (Northern Line) 0.3 miles WbN
Pillars of Hercules (pub) 0.4 miles SSW
Nellie Dean (pub) 0.4 miles SW
Garlic and Shots (restaurant) 0.4 miles SSW
Lord John Russell (pub) 0.4 miles N
Covent Garden Station (Piccadilly Line) 0.5 miles SbE
The Ship (pub) 0.5 miles SW
Hummus Bros (restaurant) 0.5 miles SWbS
Euston Square Station (Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line) 0.5 miles NW
Leicester Square Station (Northern Line, Piccadilly Line) 0.6 miles SbW
Calthorpe Arms (pub) 0.6 miles NEbE
Wong Kei (restaurant) 0.6 miles SSW
Warren Street Station (Northern Line, Victoria Line) 0.6 miles NWbW
Crispy Duck (restaurant) 0.6 miles SSW
Head of Steam/Doric Arch (pub) 0.6 miles NNW
Porterhouse (pub) 0.6 miles SbE
Misato (restaurant) 0.6 miles SSW
Euston Flyer (pub) 0.6 miles N
Shaston Arms (pub) 0.6 miles SW
Euston Station (British Rail, Northern Line, Victoria Line) 0.6 miles NWbN
Chancery Lane Station (Central Line) 0.7 miles EbS
Hazuki (restaurant) 0.7 miles S
Ta-Zu (restaurant) 0.7 miles NbW
Pakenham Arms (pub) 0.7 miles NEbE
Ramen Seto (restaurant) 0.7 miles SW
New Seoul (restaurant) 0.7 miles EbN
Oxford Circus Station (Bakerloo Line, Central Line, Victoria Line) 0.7 miles WSW
Great Nepalese (restaurant) 0.7 miles NNW
King's Cross St. Pancras Station (British Rail, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line, Northern Line, Piccadilly Line, Victoria Line) 0.7 miles NbE
Piccadilly Circus Station (Bakerloo Line, Piccadilly Line) 0.7 miles SSW
Phoenix (pub) 0.8 miles WSW
Charing Cross Station (Bakerloo Line, British Rail, Northern Line) 0.8 miles S
Prince Arthur (pub) 0.8 miles NNW
Great Portland Street Station (Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line) 0.8 miles WNW
Windmill (pub) 0.8 miles SWbW
King's Cross Thameslink Station (British Rail) 0.8 miles NNE
Temple Station (Circle Line, District Line) 0.8 miles SE
Ship and Shovel (pub) 0.8 miles S
Wasabi (restaurant) 0.8 miles SbE
Ye Olde Mitre (pub) 0.8 miles E
Regent's Park Station (Bakerloo Line) 0.9 miles WNW
Embankment Station (Bakerloo Line, Circle Line, District Line, Northern Line) 0.9 miles SbE
Farringdon Station (British Rail, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line) 0.9 miles E
Imperial War Museum London (museum) 1.8 miles SSE
National Army Museum (museum) 2.7 miles SWbS
RAF Museum London (museum) 7.3 miles NW