British Museum: the world heritage collection library

Britain is one of the world's largest national museum, there are about more than 2500 Museum and art gallery is open to the public. The British like collection, when the British male "empire of the sun", to dominate the world, provides collection of world heritage more opportunities to them.

The gate of British Museum

These extracts in various countries and regions of the cultural relics are shipped back to the UK, hidden in the local museum. The British Museum (accurate translation is "the British Museum") collection of Feng Zhigui, not only topped the UK, but also in the forefront of the world. The British Museum's collection since ancient times, from all over the world to Britain, from the origin of human race to science and technology, kinds, cover and contain everything, as world cultural relics collection library. British Museum was originally a private "Royal physician Hans Sloan museum treasures", died in 1753 donated to the state. On this basis, with the collection number, scale is also expanding. The museum now occupies an area of 5.4 hectares, is a rectangular white building, front gate is composed of 8 round column asked to raise the top end long triangle, triangle has many beautiful stone, looks magnificent, magnificent and dignified.

The front of the Museum

The majority of exhibition hall on the one or two floor, some on the ground floor, a total of 90 exhibition halls, division of Greece and Rome, and Rome during the period of British, West Asia in prehistoric times, medieval and Renaissance and modern Europe, Egypt, the East, the British Library, ethnology, and coins and medals, prints and drawings 2 exhibition hall. The British Museum collection total unknown, only have 6500000 pieces of exhibits, and regular rotation.

Yingbin Hall Museum

From the front gate into, come into view is a magnificent glass steel roof circular building, this is a welcome hall to open in the second half of 2000, the queen had to cut the ribbon. Around the hall into the exhibition hall, on the left is the most to attract the audience's Egyptian museum. The entrance stands the ancient Egyptian king Amay Noufi J Sans two statue of black granite sit carved, nearly 3 meters high. The statue of the left rear is a piece of carved in 2 languages, 3 kinds of styles of Steles, known as the Rosetta stone. After the break, words are but the issued ordinary monks. Here on display are a huge statue of the king and other large variety of huge stone, each one exquisite beyond compare, it is as the acme of perfection. Of course, the most worth a visit is the two floor exhibition of Egyptian mummies, mostly the people, there are a few animal, large and small, male and female, of every hue. It is said that British Museum's collection of mummies number, more than the Egyptian national. By the Egyptian Museum where to go, into the West Hall, the hall of Assyria relief is wonderful. In an exhibition hall entrance, both sides sat 2 human-faced heads bull stone, tall and magnificent, each one with 5 legs, face seemed motionless, like walking on the side.

Zaiwang is an I-shaped hall, the entire hall is only as good as the exhibits, is the famous Parthenon temple relics. The Parthenon in Athens, a mountain, and later collapsed. In 1802, British ambassador to the Earl of Elgin after the discovery, put the marble carving material remains all get back to london. The end of the hall is the main hall of the temple of the display, around the Wall Hung Temple beautiful wall hangings. Into the hall, immediately in a solemn and sacred atmosphere. Greece insisted on the return of these precious cultural relics, the UK has repeatedly refused, and said: this will be all gone these relics, Britain retained the cultural wealth for the world. Both sides still in the temple relics or debate.

The museum collections

The two layer is the north "He Dong hall" (Hongkong gentleman Mr. He Dong donor), there are the main collection of China, India and Southeast asia. Remember that when studying in London to visit, China and India exhibits very much, and now the things on show much less. Chinese exhibits from the Neolithic Age to the Qing Dynasty, including all kinds of jade, bronze ware, lacquer, gold and silver, porcelain, pottery and cloisonne and precious calligraphy and painting, it was a superb collection of beautiful things, beautiful. East wall is a large Buddhist murals in the Ming Dynasty, arranged on both sides of the statue of Buddha carved with different materials in different times. Museum expert with several of the Chinese culture, quite understand the psychology of the Chinese people and the hobby, the domestic hit "prime minister Liu Luoguo", on display here a word of Liu Yong.

Other exhibition hall also has many rare treasures. But exhibited too rich, I have visited many times, also can choose to go to part. But, in any case should go to the reading room. Marx was here to search information, write shocked the world famous "Das Kapital", his reading seat still in. Mr. Sun Zhongshan is here studied capitalism, put forward the "people's livelihood", the "three principles of the people" theory. In the reader's attendance book, can see his signature.

The treasure of the Museum

"The book of the dead Janine" is painted on the toilet paper since before the 3200 painting. Jani is a real character, this picture as funerary on Yannick tomb, 24 meters in length, with 60 chapters, depicting the deceased immortal required incantation and engagement in the afterlife. This picture is now the London British Museum zhenguanzhibao.