Ground floor Level 2

Level 2
95 67 Toilets

Only down to 33 North Level 2

stairs Accessible toilet

Don’t miss Level 1 33a 33 C 33 B

Baby changing
Level 1
A The Holy Thorn Reliquary,
Only up to 95 and 67 North Level 1
stairs
Room 2a Baby feeding
A medieval masterpiece Members’ Montague
cloakroom Place entrance
B Tang dynasty figures, Anthropology Library Montague
Level -1 Café Shop
and Research Centre 33b
Room 33
From the tomb of a general North stairs Level
Up to 24 and Great Court or down -1 & 0
to the Montague Place entrance
Great Court Restaurant
C Shiva Nataraja
Level 0
(Lord of the Dance), Room 33 30
A remarkable bronze sculpture
Café
from south India
West 24 26 27
D Easter Island statue Hoa Up to 20a stairs
East Information Desk
Hakananai’a, Room 24 Level 0 29a 29b
D Down
stairs
A colossal figure from a lost 20 to 25

civilisation Up to Members’
Court Café
21 Room via Tickets & Membership Desk
West stairs
& lift
E The Rosetta Stone, Room 4
18 19 Great Court
The key to deciphering Shop
hieroglyphs
9 4 Level 0 Level 0 1 F Families Desk
(weekends and school holidays only)
Court
22 Café
F Assyrian Lion Hunt reliefs, 18b Cloakroom
Room 10 G
E
An ancient king’s triumph over 18 17 23 8 4 Collections Book 1
nature Shop Shop
Audio guide
18a
G Parthenon sculptures, F
16
Room 18 Stairs
Iconic sculpture from ancient 10 7 4 1
stairs Greece 18 15 Great Court
F
Lift
Down to Down to
14 Clore Centre
Level 0
Clore Centre

South Grenville Level access lift

13 6 stairs Room 2

12 6 3
A

Please note that some 2a

Pizzeria 5 5
galleries may be closed
at short notice due to
unforeseen circumstances Level 0 Main entrance Forecourt
or refurbishment. Great Russell Street Café

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Americas Ancient Greece Asia Middle East Themes
North America and Rome China and South Asia Assyrian sculpture and Enlightenment
54 53 Room East
26
stairs Early Greece The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery Balawat Gates Room 1
Room 6 Room 33 Room 6
I Mexico Collecting the world
52 Room 27 Greece: Minoans and India: Amaravati Assyria: Nimrud Room 2
Mycenaeans The Asahi Shimbun Gallery Rooms 7–8
The Waddesdon Bequest
The Arthur I Fleischman Gallery Room 33a
Assyria: Nineveh Funded by The Rothschild
Level 1 Ancient Egypt Room 12 Chinese jade Room 9 Foundation
51 Egyptian sculpture
Greece 1050–520 BC The Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne Room 2a
Room 4 Assyria: Lion hunts, Siege
Room 13 Gallery
of Lachish and Khorsabad Living and Dying
Room 33b
50 Greek vases Room 10 The Wellcome Trust Gallery
Room 14 Korea Room 24
The Korea Foundation Gallery
Athens and Lycia Room 67 Exhibitions
Room 15 Special exhibitions
Chinese ceramics – Members
49 Greece: Bassai sculptures The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery Members’ Room
Sir Percival David Collection
Room 16* Room 30 This room is exclusively available
The Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for
Ceramic Studies Free displays to Members, providing the perfect
Nereid Monument
Room 95 The Asahi Shimbun Displays setting in which to relax in front
Room 17
Room 3 of spectacular views of the Great
H
43a Greece: Parthenon Court. Facilities include free WiFi
41 42 Room 18 and a café serving hot and cold
food. Access is via Rooms 4 or 29a
43 Greece: Athens and the West stairs and lift.
39
Room 19 *
47 46
Greeks and Lycians
400–325 BC
48 Room 20 *
Greek vases
Room 20a*
Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
Room 21
The world of Alexander
Room 22
*Ask at the Information Desk in the
Great Court for opening times of Greek and Roman sculpture
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Down to 91

Level 5 94 93 92 Toilets

North stairs
Level 5 Accessible toilet

Don’t miss
Baby changing

H The Lewis Chessmen, Room 40

The most famous chess set in the world Baby feeding

I Astrolabe, Room 42 Up to 94

A spectacular scientific instrument from Please note that some Shop

Level 4 91a 91 90 90a
the Islamic world galleries may be closed
at short notice due to
North Levels unforeseen circumstances
J Oxus Treasure, Room 52 stairs 3&4 Great Court Restaurant
or refurbishment.
Fabulous metalwork from ancient Iran
Level 3
66
K The Portland Vase, Room 70 Café
The Roman inspiration for Wedgwood
61
61 62 63 64 65
Information Desk
West 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 East
stairs stairs
Down to
Members’ Down to
Members’
Great Court Restaurant J Tickets & Membership Desk
Room
73 Room on
Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 52
via lift
35 F Families Desk
(weekends and school holidays only)
Level 1 Level 1
72 51
Cloakroom

71 50
Audio guide

K Stairs

stairs 70 49

Coffee Lift
Lounge
Level 3

43a Level access lift

South 40
H
41
69a 69 stairs 36 42
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43
68 37 38 39
Up to 69 mezzanine
Please note that some 47 46
galleries may be closed
at short notice due to
unforeseen circumstances Level 3 48
or refurbishment.

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Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Asia Middle East Exhibitions
Egyptian life and death
East and Rome Painting and calligraphy The Islamic world Special exhibitions
54 53 The Michael
stairs Cohen Gallery Greek and Roman life Room 91a The Albukhary Foundation Gallery The Joseph Hotung Great Court
Room 61 Room 69 Rooms 42–43 Gallery
I Japan
Room 35
52 Egyptian death and afterlife: Roman Empire The Mitsubishi Corporation Ancient Iran
mummies The Wolfson Gallery Galleries The Rahim Irvani Gallery Prints and drawings
The Roxie Walker Galleries Room 70 Rooms 92–94 Room 52 Rooms 90 and 90a
Level 1 Rooms 62–63
51 Etruscan world Ancient South Arabia Free displays
Early Egypt The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Rooms 43a, 69a and 91
Room 71 Europe Gallery
The Raymond and
Ancient Cyprus Medieval Europe 1050–1500
Beverly Sackler Gallery Room 53
The A. G. Leventis Gallery The Sir Paul and
50 Room 64
Lady Ruddock Gallery Anatolia and Urartu 7000–300
Themes
Room 72 Clocks and watches
Sudan, Egypt and Nubia Room 40 BC
Greeks in Italy The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly
The Raymond and The Raymond and Beverly Sackler
Sutton Hoo and Europe Gallery
Beverly Sackler Gallery Room 73 Gallery
AD 300–1100 Rooms 38–39
49 Room 65 Room 54
The Sir Paul and
Money
Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt Lady Ruddock Gallery Mesopotamia 1500–539 BC
Room 68
Room 66 Room 41 The Raymond and Beverly Sackler
Gallery
Europe 1400–1800
Room 55
43a Room 46 Members
H
41 42 Mesopotamia Members’ Room
Europe 1800–1900
6000–1500 BC This room is exclusively available
43 Room 47
39 The Raymond and Beverly Sackler to Members, providing the perfect
Europe 1900 to the present Gallery setting in which to relax in front
47 46 Room 48 Room 56 of spectacular views of the Great
Roman Britain Ancient Levant Court. Facilities include free WiFi
The Weston Gallery The Raymond and Beverly Sackler and a café serving hot and cold
48
Room 49 Galleries food. Access is via Rooms 4 or 29a
Rooms 57–59 and the West stairs and lift.
Britain and Europe
800 BC–AD 43
Room 50
Europe and Middle East
10,000–800 BC
The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan
Al Nahyan Gallery
Room 51 © The Trustees of the British Museum 05/2019
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Accessible toilet

Don’t miss
Baby changing

L Brass plaques from Benin,

Room 25 Baby feeding

Masterpieces of African art

Shop

Great Court Restaurant

Café

Level -1 Up to 21
Level -2 Information Desk

Up to 24

78 West
Levelstairs
-2 25 Tickets & Membership Desk
77 25 25
80 79
Level -1 L
Level -2 Level -2 F Families Desk
(weekends and school holidays only)

Cloakroom

Audio guide

Stairs
The Clore Centre for Education
stairs
Lift

Up to Level Up to
Great Court -1 & -2 Great Court
Level access lift
Level -1 Level -1 Level -1
Ford Centre for Young Visitors

Please note that some

galleries may be closed
at short notice due to
unforeseen circumstances
or refurbishment.

4 65
Africa The Clore Centre Ford Centre for Young
Africa
East for Education Visitors
54 53 The Sainsbury
stairs Galleries Hugh and Catherine At weekends and during school
Room 25 Stevenson Lecture Theatre holidays, families are welcome to
I
picnic in the Ford Centre for Young
52 Claus Moser Room
Visitors.
BP Lecture Theatre Free, just drop in.
Level 1
51 Studio
Raymond and Beverly
Sackler Rooms
50 Samsung Digital
Discovery Centre

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39
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