The British Museum is currently divided into 10 branches: 1. Ancient near east pavilion, coin and commemorative coin pavilion, 2. Egypt Pavilion, 3. National Pavilion, 4. Rome Pavilion, Greece, 5. Japan Pavilion, 6. Medieval and Modern European Pavilion, 7. Oriental Pavilion, 8. Prehistoric and early Europe. 9. Prints and Sketches Museum 10. The Taoist figures in the British Museum are like the cultural relics on display in the British Museum. The blue-and-white porcelain plate of mandarin fish (Rosetta Stone, one of the most precious Egyptian cultural relics acquired by Britain after Napoleon's defeat in Egypt) was robbed. Elgin marble sculpture of the Parthenon in ancient Greece (18 16 was obtained through compensation for land cession, but now the Greeks demand to return it, but the British don't), the head of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (purchased by 1865433) and the head of Ramses II (1865433). Franks jewelry box (1867, obtained in the process of land compensation) Portland vase (Portland vase) Charlotte Brontexq pursued a love letter written by a professor when studying in Brussels, Belgium, and Charlotte Brontexq pursued a love letter written by a married professor when he was a tutor. Charlotte Brontexq insulted Jane Austen's original stationery. The photo of Charlotte Brontexq in the newspaper scolded by the third-rate writers is the most famous collection of the British Museum, second only to the Egyptian Museum. There are a lot of fine works here, such as the famous Rosetta Stone, the book about Yani's death in the corner of the British Museum, and the bust of Ramses II, which is one of the most outstanding works in ancient Egyptian art ... The collection of Greek and Roman series 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 most striking thing in the British Museum is the Museum of Oriental Art and Cultural Relics. The museum has more than100000 cultural relics from China, Japanese, Indian and other Southeast Asian countries. Among them, China showroom occupies several halls, and exhibits range from Shang and Zhou bronzes to Tang porcelain and Ming and Qing jade. China alone has more than 20,000 rare treasures, most of which are priceless. For example, paintings and embroideries of various dynasties in China, cultural relics unearthed in various periods, paintings and calligraphy of Tang and Song Dynasties, and porcelain of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them, the most precious are the True Picture of the Female History, the three-color portrait of Luohan in the Song Dynasty, Dunhuang scriptures, famous paintings in the Song and Ming Dynasties, etc. The bronze statue of Shang dynasty is two conjoined sheep with a round elephant tube in the middle, which is very beautiful and exquisite. There is also a Song Dynasty porcelain hip flask with a lotus flower around the base and responsibility and a lion sitting on the lid, which is a rare treasure. The two big stone lions at the back door of the museum were also shipped from China. Hall 33 of the British Museum is a permanent exhibition hall dedicated to China's cultural relics. Like the exhibition halls of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and India, it is one of the few national exhibition halls in the museum. The collection of China cultural relics in this museum includes all the art categories in China. In short, ancient stone tools, Shang and Zhou bronzes, stone Buddha scriptures in Wei and Jin Dynasties, paintings in Tang and Song Dynasties, porcelain in Ming and Qing Dynasties and other national treasures engraved with various cultural peaks in China history can be seen here, which can be described as complete and exquisite. However, this is only a part of the 23,000 rare treasures of China in the British Museum, and the other nine tenths are kept in Room 10. Ordinary tourists are not allowed to meet unless they get special permission. In some places, such as the Tang Dynasty copy of the map of female historical treasures by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, only specialized experts can have a full meal. As the earliest silk painting in China and one of the earliest works of professional painters in China, The Picture of Women's History is a milestone in the history of fine arts in China, and it has always been a treasure in the court collections of past dynasties. At present, there are only two in the world, one of which was copied by Song people and collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing. The brushwork color is not top grade. The other is this replica of the British Museum. Originally hidden in the Qing Palace, it was the favorite desk of Emperor Qianlong, and it was hidden in Yuanmingyuan. 1860, British and French forces invaded Beijing, and British captain Ji Yong stole it from Yuanmingyuan and took it abroad. 1903 was collected by the British Museum and became the most important oriental cultural relic in the museum. It is no exaggeration to call it "the treasure of the town hall". It is reported that Xie Chengshui, director of the Art Research Office of Dunhuang Studies Center of Nanjing Normal University, came across this replica in the secret room in 2002. At that time, only two Japanese people came to the scene to copy it in the register. There are dozens of square meters of Dunhuang murals on the central wall of China Pavilion. Although the knife marks are still visible, it is difficult to hide their timeless freshness and the elegance of the three "rich and fat" bodhisattvas. There are thousands of Dunhuang scrolls and classics in the British Museum. Apart from this mural, other collections are hard to find in China Pavilion. From 1856 to 1932, many so-called "western explorers" went deep into the northwest of China for more than 60 times in the name of scientific investigation, taking away a large number of cultural relics each time. Among them, especially in 1907, the Hungarian Stein and the French Bosch looted the most cultural relics in the Dunhuang Tibetan Sutra Cave. The British Museum is located in Russell Street, London, which is smaller than the Metropolitan Museum of New York, but its exhibition area is also larger than the Forbidden City. Originally a privately donated library, montague Building was purchased as the former site in 1754 and opened to the public for the first time in 1759. 1823, King George IV of England built the present Romanesque building on the original site of montague Building, and donated many royal collections to become the British Museum today. The British Museum has a large collection of cultural relics and can be called the World History Museum. Babylonia, India, China and Greece, the cradles of human civilization, have a large number of precious cultural relics. Greek stone carvings, Indian gem ring, Babylonian silverware and China porcelain are dazzling. There are several bodies found thousands of years before Mawangdui, but they are not from England, but from Egypt. More than a dozen mummies on display are only part of the collection. The British Museum has the largest collection of Egyptian cultural relics, especially mummies, outside Egypt. In particular, the most precious cultural relics in Egypt, stone tablets engraved with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek on the front and back, were hidden in the British Museum 4,000 years ago. This is the only dark night of the British Museum in the world, and based on this, the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt have been deciphered, which is called the treasure of the town hall. Because the British Museum was built earlier, its shape and layout have become the standard model of museums, and later generations are scrambling to follow suit. Two of the exhibits are particularly attractive. First, China porcelain, from the Han and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, blue and white, Jun porcelain, Tang tricolor and cloisonne are arranged in chronological order and place of origin, which is probably the largest ceramics museum in China outside China. Indian gem ring is also very eye-catching, with fiery red, navy blue, pomegranate red and emerald. It's really wonderful that diamonds, spheres, ellipses and aliens come in different sizes. The British Museum is also famous for its library, because the British Museum originated from a private library donated by Sir hans sloane, and George IV donated a lot of books when rebuilding the new museum. This is the main place where Marx collected information and wrote his immortal work Das Kapital. Many tourists come to look for the seat where Marx once sat. Large museum of historical relics. Located in Russell Street, London. The main building area is about 654.38+10,000 square meters, of which 60,000 square meters is the exhibition hall and 40,000 square meters is the library. Established in 1753 and opened in 1759. The building is17th century building-montague Palace. The collection originally came from more than 80,000 cultural relics and specimens collected by Sir Hans Sloan, the physician of King George II of England and an ancient player. 1823, King George IX of England donated a large number of books of his father. In the past 200 years, the museum has continued to collect cultural relics from ancient countries such as Britain and Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India and China. 1880, the natural part was separated and the British Museum of Natural History was built. 1973, the library was separated and built into the British Library. The museum has ancient Egypt Department, Book Manuscript Department, Oriental Book Manuscript Department, Ancient Britain and Middle Ages Department, Ancient West Asia Art Department, Oriental Art Department, Ancient Greece and Rome Department overlooking the British Museum, Ethnography Department, Print Sketch Department, Currency and Commemorative Medal Department. In ancient Egypt, there were more than 70,000 cultural relics, second only to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The collection includes large-scale human and animal stone carvings and many mummies, the world-famous Rosetta Stone, various inscriptions, murals, jade jewelry, stone carving utensils, pyramids and sphinx models. It dates back to 5000 years ago. In ancient Greece and Rome, busts of ancient Roman emperors, sculptures unearthed from the Acropolis, clay documents, pottery pots and gold wares, and a group of Parthenon sculptures from Erjin Sculpture Group were exhibited. The sculpture of the Parthenon is the best among the exhibits in the institute. It was originally a main temple of the Acropolis in ancient Greece and a model of European classical architecture. /kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, the museum bought this sculpture for 35,000 pounds. The Art Department of Ancient West Asia exhibited gold products, harps, Assyrian reliefs, the gate of Nimru Palace, statues of human face and animal wings and handicrafts unearthed from King Ur's tomb. Apart from a few cultural relics from Central Asia, South Asia and Japan, most of the Oriental Art Department are rare treasures of China, amounting to more than 20,000 pieces. The murals and scriptures plundered by Stan from Dunhuang, China are also collected here, all of which are works from the 5th century to 1 1 century. In addition to Buddhist scriptures, there are Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Nestorianism classics. China Cultural Relics Exhibition Room displays Neolithic stone tools, jade cong, jade knives, painted pottery in Yufu and Yangshao culture periods, Shang and Zhou bronzes, bronze mirrors in Qin and Han dynasties, lacquerware in Han dynasty, statues in Northern Dynasties, celadon in Southern Dynasties, tri-colored Tang Dynasty and its scrolls, silk and paintings, as well as porcelain from official kilns, old kilns, ding kilns and Jun kilns in Song Dynasty. The Tang (Song) edition of Gu Kaizhi, a painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is also on display here.