miércoles, 13 de abril de 2011

The British Museum

The British Museum is an old museum with a lot of antiques objects of many areas of the world.
Like the Ancient Egypt, Greece, Asia, Africa among others.
There are so many kinds of objects here like sculptures, ceramics, paints, etc.

Some of the famous objects are Rosetta Stone, the Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes, The Athenian Akropolis, Mausoleum of Halikarnassos among others.

This museum was opened on 15 January of 1759, with a few antiquities property of a physician and scientist called Sir Hans Sloane.

this museum has too controversy because some nations wants that the British Museum take back their treasures.
The museum is looking forward to its next major building project, The World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre, which will include a new temporary exhibition space.

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