The newly restored circular reading room of the British Museum will be opened to the public on February 7th, 65438. The world-famous circular reading room is 32.3 meters high and 43 meters in diameter, with a reading table of 19 long, which can be used by 302 readers. Proletarian revolutionaries Marx and Lenin studied and wrote books here in their early years. The picture shows the interior of the circular reading room of the British Museum.

The British Museum is a must. Its Egyptian pavilion is very prominent, with the famous Rosetta stone that deciphers ancient Egyptian characters. The Central Circular British Library (actually very small) is where Marx wrote the manifesto of the * * * Party. The London Museum is free.

The British Museum, also known as the National Library and the Museum of History, Archaeology, Art and Folklore, is the largest comprehensive museum in the world, and it is also known as the three major museums in the world together with the Metropolitan Museum in the United States and the Louvre in France.

As one of the earliest museums opened to the public in the world, the history of the British Museum can be traced back to 1753. Sir Hans Schulen is the founder of the British Museum. This doctor and botanist has collected a large number of works of art all over the world out of the lofty ideal of "contributing to human welfare". 1753, according to his will, the British government bought all his collections at the market price of 1/4, and at the same time bought the collections of Sir Robert Cotton and Sir Harry, and formally established the British Museum. 1759, the museum was officially opened to the public in the old mansion of Pustcaton Montage, and the whole people were free to visit.

With the increasing number of collections, the scale of museums is also expanding. 1823, designed by architect Robert Smoak, a new building was built in Bruce Bailey. Its neoclassical style sets the tone for the future expansion of the building. From 1884 to 1938, the museum has successively added buildings such as Edward VII Gallery and West Gallery to collect Parthenon statues, basically forming today's scale.

In the long course of 250 years, the British Museum has gradually established a huge collection system. Today, the British Museum has more than 6 million collections, which come from all over the world, including prints, sketches, badges, coins, manuscripts, reliefs, books, bronzes and other categories, covering a very wide range. To this end, the museum has set up ten departments, namely, Ancient Egypt Department, Ancient West Asia Department, Oriental Department, Ancient Greece and Rome Department, Printmaking and Sketching Department, Ethnography Department and Currency and Commemorative Medal Department, to manage and study these amazing collections.

Ancient Egyptian art is the most famous collection in the British Museum, second only to the Egyptian Museum. It has a large number of fine works, such as the famous Rosetta stone, Yani's book of death, and the bust of Ramses II. It is one of the most outstanding works in ancient Egyptian art.

The Greek-Roman collection is another highlight. The three statues of the goddess of fate from the Parthenon in Athens and the architectural remains of the Parthenon are the most fascinating artistic treasures of the British Museum.

The collection of oriental cultural relics in the British Museum is also wonderful, mainly including works of art from China, India, Japan, Korea, Persia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Among China's collections, the Picture of Women's History by Gu Kaizhi, a painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is the most striking, and the exquisite Shang and Zhou bronzes and a large number of Dunhuang cultural relics that Stein brought to Britain at the beginning of the last century are also extremely important treasures.

The British Department specializes in collecting collections related to Britain itself, with a long time span and many kinds of collections, just like a history of Great Britain composed of physical objects.

The library is one of the most important parts of the British Museum, with a large collection of precious books, manuscripts and manuscripts, such as the first edition of Shakespeare's works, the original manuscript of Handel's music score and the early blackboard versions of Mozart and Haydn. And there are 6-7 million books alone. The central circular reading room for people to read has a long reputation, and Marx's Das Kapital was born here. 1998, because of the crowded buildings, the library moved to a new location, but the reading room was preserved and still provides services for tourists from all over the world.

The exhibition of the British Museum fully reflects its rich collection, with more than 65,438+000 exhibition rooms, which are displayed by comprehensive classification. On the left side of the first floor are the exhibition rooms of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and West Asia, where the most precious collections of the museum are gathered, and on the right side is the exhibition room of the British Library. The second floor of the museum is introduced by time and region, and also includes the Oriental showroom and the Japanese showroom, which mainly focus on China's cultural relics.

In order to make the huge collection better serve the public, the British Museum has planned and launched a large number of activities and programs-holding irregular temporary exhibitions; Establish a "Friends of the Museum" organization; Carry out "theme dinner" and family activities for parents to accompany their children; Organize "Discovery Day" activities, watch and touch the museum's non-exhibition collections; Hold various academic seminars; It embodies the splendid museum culture in many ways.