![]() It first opened to the public in 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. The Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Anglo-Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. ![]() It was the first public national museum in the world. ![]() ![]() It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely collected during the era of the British Empire. The British Museum is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London, England. The Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room.
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