The British Museum is magnificent! Go to London! Go to the Museum! I spent the better part of six days at the museum and I still didn’t see all of the Greek antiquities. A visit to the British Museum is vital for the study of ancient Greece because it has thousands of artifacts from the various sites in Greece. With that fact in mind, I decided to go to London and see the Greek artifacts for myself. Many of the detailed photos I took are scattered throughout this web site but I thought a general museum tour might be interesting.
The main entrance to the museum is on Great Russell Street ... there’s a rear entrance on the opposite side of the building which will take you into the North American antiquities section of the museum. I found the rear entrance by mistake (I was lost) and it wasn’t until I came into the building that way that I truly grasped the sheer size of the museum ... in the spirit of British understatement, I’ll just say that it’s quite large.
If you’re using Google Earth, you can see the museum at West Longitude 07º 37.50' and North Latitude 51º 10'
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