Private Tour: Discovering the British Museum
3 hours (Approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English and 5 more
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What you can expect during your visit
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
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Overview
Visit the British Museum on this private tour. With your own art historian guide, explore the British Museum, one of the world’s greatest historical treasure troves, as you wish. As British Museum tours go, it’s ideal for getting a personalized perspective on the collections and highlights such as the Parthenon sculptures.
- Private walking tour of the British Museum
- Guided tour of the British Museum, including the famous Rosetta Stone and Parthenon sculptures
- Customize the tour to suit your own interests
- Choice of morning or afternoon tour
- Expert guide specializing in art history
- Enjoy privileged, personalized attention from your guide on this special private walking tour
Meet your art historian guide near the British Museum and go inside to start your private tour. When you book, list any special interests you have, such as art, history or culture, so your private guide can prepare your personalized tour in advance.
One of the world’s premier museums — on a par with Paris’ Louvre and New York’s Metropolitan museum — this world-famous institution houses a vast collection of historical artifacts and art across more than 70 galleries.
With your guide providing enlightening commentary throughout, stroll around to discover some of the museum’s highlights. View treasures such as the Parthenon frieze from the Acropolis at Athens; the fabled Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies; and check out more of the artifacts and sections as you wish.
One of the world’s premier museums — on a par with Paris’ Louvre and New York’s Metropolitan museum — this world-famous institution houses a vast collection of historical artifacts and art across more than 70 galleries.
With your guide providing enlightening commentary throughout, stroll around to discover some of the museum’s highlights. View treasures such as the Parthenon frieze from the Acropolis at Athens; the fabled Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies; and check out more of the artifacts and sections as you wish.
Itinerary
The Museum is the largest ethnographic Museum in the world - culture is its theme. It represents not only British culture but it is a collection of World cultures such as the Egyptian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Pacific Ocean, the Americas and Eastern Cultures etc. This British Museum tour is ideal for a personalised perspective on the collections. Everything is huge here, like the recently refurbished hall called the Great Court. The Museum owns over 9 million objects, of which 2 million are on display. You may not see them all!!! Some of the most important - starting from the very beginning - is the
one million and six hundred thousand year old Hand Ax from Africa; to some of the rarest and best kept
Egyptian statues;
the Rosetta Stone;
the Egyptian Mummies;
the Assyrian Palace's Freezes with details of their battles quoted in the Bible, and among them
the Lion Hunt; also inluded is
the Mesopotamian 2000 B.C. Standard of Ur - from the small but powerful Mesopotamian town where Abraham was born and lived in those years; to
the Parthenon Sculptures, as well as Roman sculptures like
the Portland Vase; Caesar’s and Augustus’s Iate I century BC busts and
the Anglo Saxon Hoards recently discovered found buried in Britain after the Roman Conquest etc. from 400 AD.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Included
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