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- Oct 8, 2024, 11:31 AM
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 44 m
- EnglandCamdenRussell SquareBritish Museum51°31’10” N 0°7’37” W
British Museum
October 8 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
The British Museum was up there with the list of things to go and see in London so that was where I headed today. There was quite a nice park to walk through once you left the subway. The pigeons were enjoying bathing in a fountain in the middle. I had bought myself some strawberries with chocolate thinking I couldn’t go wrong but the chocolate went hard within minutes and then you couldn’t really taste it - not quite the fondue experience I was after!
The museum was huge and it was quite a splendid looking building. You had to go through security and have your bag checked on the way in so quite official. I was worried I wouldn’t get my snacks through as I saw a sign saying something about picking up confiscated items and food but either they didn’t notice it in my bag or didn’t care. I was a bit lost as to where to go once inside as it was so big and I didn’t have anything specific I was there for - other than the Magna Carta which I’d promised Heidi a pic of. So I wandered into the centre circle and into an amazing looking reading room. It was built in what used to be the courtyard of the museum. There was a 20 minute tour of it so I hung around for that. Apparently the dome roof is bigger than that of St Paul’s Cathedral! The bookshelves lining the walls were impressive. And it was used as a reading room by people such as Beatrix Potter, Lenin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Karl Marx etc. It was quite a pleasant place to be especially in winter where it was often warmer than their houses.
I just wandered around the rest of the museum looking at things of interest. I found the Rosetta Stone and it was crowded as much as the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Although at least this was bigger!
I’m very sorry Heidi but they didn’t have the Magna Carta here - it’s at the British Library 🙄 apparently they used to have it but all their old manuscripts, documents etc are now housed at the British Library.
I headed back to the metro, stopping for lunch before jumping on the subway back home. I may have had a snooze at home 😁 and then Eli and I went out for dinner at Covent Garden since it was our last night in London. Off to Wales tomorrow!Read more
Traveler Wow!!! 42 KMS of shelving- no wonder it took up to an hour for a book to be found to read and then after all that you couldn't take it out of the room!!
Traveler Looks delicious! I’ve always wanted to try that…😋. Maybe its something that you have to eat really really really fast 😃
Traveler Yeah, don’t stop to take a photo 😂
Traveler 🤭
Traveler Looks like a dream😍