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The British Museum in London is one of the world's largest and most important museums of human history and culture. It has more than seven million objects[1] from all continents. They illustrate and document the story of human culture from its beginning to the present. As with all other national museums and art galleries in Britain, the Museum charges no admission fee.
The British Museum set up in 1753 and opened in 1759. It was the first museum in the world to be open to everyone.[2] The museum gradually grew over the next two hundred years. It has nearly six million visitors a year and is the third most popular art museum in the world.[3]
Some of the museum's most popular and important exhibits include the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles.
- ↑ "Museum in London". Retrieved 2010-06-04.
- ↑ "The eighteenth century: origins of the British Museum". Retrieved 2010-06-05.
- ↑ "Free tourist atrractions see visitor numbers soar". BBC. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04.