British Museum

Sometimes you just need to spend a cold snowy Sunday afternoon at the British Museum...

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. 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 beginning to the present.

The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building and has been free to the world ever since... That's right NO ADMISSION FEE!

The lobby itself is breathtaking!

Then you go to the section where all the Parthenon stuff is and then you think wow, all of this is so beautiful and basically so stolen from Greece from a man by the name of Thomas Bruce...

Then you walk by the Rosetta Stone, yes yet another amazing piece of history that is yet again basically stolen from Egypt. Dr. Zahi Hawass is actually trying to make the British Museum hand it over to the Cairo Museum where basically it rightfully belongs...but anywho...that's not my battle to fight... instead I will just enjoy knowing that these baby blues from Tennessee can travel about 20 minutes and see it anytime I like...and well... that's fine by me.

There are over 7 million objects in this museum so I will of course not mention them all, but one thing that is pretty creepy to see is the Lindow Man (google it)

The Portland Vase is also here...The Portland Vase dates to the end of the first century B.C. to the beginning of the first century A.D. It's a glass amphora made during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar. It is one of the most famous artistic glass vessels ever created. The vase has a cobalt blue background with opaque white human and imaginative figures and objects cut in a cameo relief. It is almost ten inches high.

Afterwards, we had dinner at Wahaca and loved every bite of it.

Cheers,
WMMc