The British Museum is one of the largest museums in the world. It is located on Great Russell Street in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. The museum was established in 1853 at the Montagu House in Bloomsbury, based on eighty thousand specimens collected by the English physician Sir Hans Sloane. The museum was opened to the public on January 15, 1859. Initially, the museum contained more than 40,000 books, 7,000 manuscripts, about three and a half hundred relics of various plants, and many antiquities and objects brought from Egypt, India, Greece, Rome and America, which Sir Hans collected.
In the 19th century, the museum's current building was designed in the Greek style by the English architect Robert Esmirck. Then all the elements of the museum were transferred to the present building.
The museum has reached its present state through various changes at different times. The current area of the museum is 75,000 square miles. The number of specimens preserved in the museum is eight million and many of them are about 2 million years old. About 7 million visitors from all over the world visit the museum every year. However, there is no fee to visit this museum.