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British Museum |
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17/03/07 (378 review reads) |
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Advantages: Free Access, Fascinating History, All of Civilisation under one roof.
Disadvantages: There is a lot of walking and refreshments are overpriced.
The first thing that impresses you about the British Museum is it's sheer size. Once you get past the entrance with it's wide flight of steps and impressive hallway then you enter the recently covered over central hall area. Directly in front of you is the entrance to the British library reading room where a long list of well known writers, and personalities such as Jose Rizal, Karl Marx have been members.
When you get into the museum galleries you will find it is very easy to spend several days browsing the different exhibits and still not see everything.
The Museum houses pieces from every continent on earth and from a huge number of historical periods.
You can see friezes from the Parthenon, the armour of a Roman solidier, mummies and statues from ancient Egypt, examples of writing from ancient Babylon, The famous Rosetta stone which bears the same inscription in three languages.
It is simply not possible to describe the amount and variety of exhibits in a short review, so I will simply say go and see it for yourself!
You will spend a pleasant day wandering around, and getting immersed in the worlds civilisations. The only rooms which regularly get crowded are the Egyptian mummy rooms, so you might want to time your visit to reach these rooms during a quiet period.
The museum is located on Tottenham Court road, within a five minute walk from the London Underground., and best of all access is completely free.
The only negative point in the whole experience is the museum restaurant which is vastly overpriced. The group I was with went across the road to the Starbucks opposite the museum. It was still overpriced with appallingly slow service, but at least the seats were more comfortable.
Summary: A complete history of the world in one museum. Everyone should spend a week there.
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- 17/03/07 The review dealt with what I experienced when I visited the museum. That is the nature of a review. It was not intended to be a detailed analysis of every aspect of the museum.
Within the review I did mention the cafe, or at least I mentioned that I did not use it. I also did not visit the gift shop, therefore I did not refer it it. For the same reason I did not mention the facilities for the disabled. I believe those facilities exist but I will not not report on something I did not experience.
A simple search on the internet would have informed you that the museum does indeed have at least one exhibit from Antarctica, so my 'every continent' statement is factually correct. It should also be mentioned that not everything in the museum collection is on display at any one time, so while the museum does 'house' a piece, it does not follow that you will actually see a certain piece.
The only incorrect statement in review that I am aware of is my statement concerning its location.
I got off the tube in Tottenham Court Road and forgot that the entrance to the museum is actually in Great Russell street.
I believe everything else is correct. |
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- 17/03/07 For an institution that you rightly acknowledge could occupy the visitor for a week, this was a very brief review. What about the visitor services, for example - the toilets, cafe, gift shop and facilities for education and for visitors with disabilities? And then your sentence "The Museum houses pieces from every continent on earth and from a huge number of historical periods". Every continent? I don't remember there being anything from Antarctica in there last time I visited. |
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- 17/03/07 Actually it's in Great Russel Street. |
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