The British Museum (by Georgia Berki)

 

The British museum is a museum for human history and culture in London. There are seven million of different items in there for people to admire. Some collections are the biggest and most impressive and come from all around the world, depicting and documenting the story of human culture from it s beginning until today.

  The museum was founded at 1753 and opened the doors for the public at 12/1/1757. The museum collections were based primarily on the naturalist and scientist SIR HANS SLOANE’s private collection. The place where the museum was built is Montagu House. It has been there for the last 257 years. There have been expansions over the last century which where basically relied on the British empire and colonial items as well. Although no-one can deny that the British museum is an amazing achievement, it is important to mention that many countries are displeased because part of their history is in there. Arguments between Britain and those countries never end. Who is going to win? Let’s hope as Greeks that we will get back what belongs to us.