British Museum Founded

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.^¹ Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world.^¹ It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.^¹ Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum.^¹ In 2025, the museum received 6,440,120 visitors and was the second most visited attraction in the United Kingdom.^¹