BRITISH HISTORY MUSEUM

Made by Godea Luca, Mastac Sebastian and Ermurachi Mihai

HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM

FIRST OPENED IN 1759,

. The British Museum was founded in 1753 and opened its doors in 1759. It was the first national museum to cover all
fields of human knowledge, open to visitors from across the world.

Enlightenment ideals and values – critical scrutiny of all assumptions, open debate, scientific research, progress and
tolerance – have marked the Museum since its foundation.

The Museum is driven by an insatiable curiosity for the world, a deep belief in objects as reliable witnesses and
documents of human history, sound research, as well as the desire to expand and share knowledge.

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MOST FAMOUS EXHIBITS

BUST OF RAMESSES THE GREAT

This colossal bust is of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who reigned from
1279–1213 BC. Weighing an incredible 7.5 tonnes, the bust was once part of a
larger statue which sat in the Ramesseum, a temple in Thebes (modern Luxor)
built by the pharaoh. Its decoration celebrated his military achievements and his
close association with the creator god Amun-Ra.

ROSETTA STONE

This colossal bust is of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who reigned from
1279–1213 BC. Weighing an incredible 7.5 tonnes, the bust was once part of a
larger statue which sat in the Ramesseum, a temple in Thebes (modern Luxor)
built by the pharaoh. Its decoration celebrated his military achievements and his
close association with the creator god Amun-Ra.

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IN PRESENT

BRITISH HISTORY MUSEUM IN OUR DAYS

In 2013 the museum received a record 6.7 million visitors, an increase of 20% from the
previous year. Popular exhibitions including "Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum"
and "Ice Age Art" are credited with helping fuel the increase in visitors. Plans were
announced in September 2014 to recreate the entire building along with all exhibits in the
video game Minecraft in conjunction with members of the public. A number of films have
been shot at the British Museum. As part of its very large website, the museum has the
largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with
2,000,000 individual object entries, 650,000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012.
[47] There is also a "Highlights" database with longer entries on over 4,000 objects, and
several specialised online research catalogues and online journals (all free to access). In
2022 the museum's website received 39.5 millions visits, an increase of 47% from the
previous year.

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