The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square north of New Oxford Street in London, England.

大英博物馆又名不列颠博物馆，位于英国伦敦新牛津大街北面的罗素广场。

Founded in 1753 and officially opened to the public on January 15, 1759, the museum is the world's oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum and one of the world's largest and most famous five museums.

该馆成立于1753年，于1759年1月15日起正式对公众开放，是世界上历史最悠久、规模最宏伟的综合性博物馆，也是世界上规模最大、最著名的世界五大博物馆之一。

Museum collects many cultural relics and treasures and manuscripts of many great scientists all over the world. The collection is rich and varied. It is rare in museums all over the world. The British Museum has more than 8 million collections.

博物馆收藏了世界各地许多文物和珍品及很多伟大科学家的手稿，藏品之丰富、种类之繁多，为全世界博物馆所罕见，大英博物馆拥有藏品800多万件。

Due to space constraints, 99% of the collections were not exhibited publicly. On August 10, 2018, the British Museum held a private ceremony to return eight objects about 5,000 years ago to Salih Hussein Ali, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Kingdom.

由于空间限制，有99%的藏品未能公开展出。2018年8月10日，英国大英博物馆举行非公开仪式，向伊拉克驻英国大使萨利赫・侯赛因・阿里交还八件大约5000年前的物件。

扩展资料

1、建筑规模

大英博物馆的主体建筑在伦敦的布隆斯伯里区，核心建筑占地约56000平方米。博物馆正门的两旁，各有8根又粗又高的希腊爱奥尼式圆柱，大中庭（Great Court）位于大英博物馆中心，于2000年12月建成开放，是欧洲最大的有顶广场。

现有建筑为19世纪中叶所建，共有70个常年对外开放的固定展馆 ，面积六七万平方米，共藏有展品800多万件。博物馆正门的两旁，各有8根又粗又高的爱奥尼亚式圆柱。除了欣赏展品外，游客还可以领略英国人在博物馆设计方面的过人之处。

2、参观信息

大英博物馆为英国和世界各国托管着一批反映古代文化和现代文化的艺术品和文物。陈列在英国考古纪念碑中的藏品都是现存最完好的文物，这些藏品跨越了人类历史的200多万年。大英博物馆是免费入场的。

博物馆秉持着实用原则――藏品应向公众开放并可免费入场参观。这种原则也基于一种启蒙思想，即尽管人类文化间存在着差异，但是通过彼此的交流，它们是可以互相了解的。而博物馆就曾是这种人类跨文化研究的平台。

参考资料来源：百度百科-大英博物馆

1. The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London.

2. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

3. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.

4. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

5. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887.

6. Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.