Audio-guided tour
Headsets (to hear the guide)
It was very crowded and we should have perhaps picked a better time as we could not use the audio guide as well as we might have.
Travel through the history of human culture with the British Museum!
The British Museum’s largest and most comprehensive collection in existence illustrates the story of human culture from its beginning to the present. With more than seven million objects from all countries, it is a whole other world where you can travel through time and continents while moving to different halls of the museum.
Find out the secrets of ancient Egypt with the Rosetta Stone – the key that unlocked ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the colossal bust of Ramesses the Great weighing 7.5 tonnes.
Wonder at the precious figurine of the Ram in the Thicket created about 4500 years ago and the beautiful Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka. Gaze in wonder at the Aztec serpent made of 2,000 pieces of turquoise and the ancient moai statue from Easter Island.
In the British Museum, you can fully immerse yourself in the mysteries of human civilization and feel like a real discoverer.
