The British Museum is amazing!!! Join my husband and me for the eye-opening stroll we enjoyed…
During this vacation, we visited jam-packed London, Bath, Avebury Henge, Stokesay Castle, Harlech and Conwy and Penrith and Ullswater, and the Kelpies of Scotland. The British Museum (here’s Part 2 and Part 3 of our trip to see it) is best known for the Rosetta Stone that helped scholars decipher ancient Egypt’s hieroglyphic writing. Here’s the front of it at another site. So dense was the crowd that I could only snap these photos…
There’s much of the relief sculpture from the Parthenon, a Greek temple finished in 438 BC. (Btw, ever visited Tennessee’s Parthenon, from 1897?)…
On it, the faces of hunters are differentiated by their postures, rather than by their features…
The British Museum’s collection is overwhelming. We only had time to see a smattering of it…
After the museum, we meandered across the street — where a gift shop offered a different type of show…
What’s the silliest thing you’ve seen in or around a museum?…
Happiness Between Tails by da-AL 
I always enjoy visiting such museums as it takes me to the different world few hundreds/ thousands of years ago, and it thrills me when I could perceive the hard work & creative work behind every piece of art.
Thanks for taking me to a short virtual tour to this museum. 🙂
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My pleasure, Megala 🙂
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I hope I’ll have the chance to visit the museum! Thx!
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Hope you do too, Geo 🙂
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Wow, such amazing historic pieces! And the little dancers are very funny. Great post, thanks 🙂
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You’re very welcome, Melissa 🙂
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Nice post. The British Museum is one of my favourite around the world… Reminds me I haven’t been in a while… 😉
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Like a couple of your other commenters, I haven’t been to the British Museum for years.
As we normally tend to have youngsters with us when we go up to London, we generally end up at the Natural History and Science Museum, which are slightly more oriented to their ages.
I have to admit that these days, our visits to London are few and far between and we tend to stay outside the City limits if we visit Kew Gardens.
I have often thought it a shame that our museums are full of priceless relics we have ‘borrowed’ from our past incursions into overseas territories, but at least they are on display somewhere in the World, where they can be viewed and admired by the general public.
Thanks for sharing your lovely pictures 🙂
Yvonne
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I feel the same way you do about the ‘borrowed’ relics — am so glad to find that many of my visitors here are thoughtful & have kind hearts, Yvonne ❤
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It is years ago I went to the British Museum, thank you for sharing all here, and such a delight to see what is on display here… 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed it, Sue 🙂
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I do love the British Museum. We used to take it an hour at a time, to not be overwhelmed.
I have never looked at the Rosetta Stone from the back. It looks like the rock has its own story written there.
Thanks for a fun blog!
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An hour at a time is a great idea to make it all the more fun as well as educational
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I too am surprised pieces of the Parthenon are in Britain, but I’d like to see them anyway.
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Beautiful pictures. Especially the one at the bottom. Don’t get me started……deep sigh…..:)
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Glad you enjoyed it, Bryan 🙂
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Those bobble-heads made me laugh. Seems appropriate that Trump is next to the poo, lol.
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Indeed 🙂
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