British Museum

The British Museum is a public dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million artefacts is the largest in the world.
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  • Museum
  • …lies at an elevation of 128 feet (39 metres)
  • …is also known as “the British Museum”
  • Description: national museum in London, United Kingdom
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Highlights include Leicester Square and London St Pancras International.
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British Museum

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Latitude
51.51945° or 51° 31′ 10″ north
Longitude
-0.12708° or 0° 7′ 38″ west
Open location code
9C3XGV9F+Q5
Geo­Names ID
6697862
Wiki­data ID
Q6373

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“British Museum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Britse Museum”
  • Arabic: “المتحف البريطاني”
  • Aragonese: “British Museum”
  • Armenian: “Բրիտանական թանգարան”
  • Asturian: “Muséu Británicu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Britaniya muzeyi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Britaniya Muzeyi”
  • Balinese: “Museum British”
  • Banjar: “Musium Britania”
  • Bashkir: “Британ музейы”
  • Basque: “British Museum”
  • Basque: “Britisha”
  • Belarusian: “Брытанскі музей”
  • Belarusian: “Брытанскі музэй”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিটিশ জাদুঘর”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিটিশ মিউজিয়াম”
  • Bosnian: “Britanski muzej”
  • Breton: “British Museum”
  • Bulgarian: “Британски музей”
  • Burmese: “ဗြိတိသျှပြတိုက်”
  • Catalan: “Museu Britànic”
  • Chechen: “Британин музей”
  • Chinese: “大英博物館”
  • Chinese: “大英博物馆”
  • Chinese: “皇家手稿”
  • Chuvash: “Британ музейĕ”
  • Chuvash: “Британи музейĕ”
  • Cornish: “Gwithti Bretennek”
  • Croatian: “British Museum”
  • Czech: “Britské muzeum”
  • Danish: “British Museum”
  • Dutch: “British Museum”
  • Eastern Mari: “Британийысе тоштер”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المتحف البريطانى”
  • Esperanto: “Brita Muzeo”
  • Estonian: “Briti Muuseum”
  • Finnish: “British Museum”
  • French: “British Museum”
  • French: “Musée britannique”
  • Galician: “Museo Británico”
  • Georgian: “ბრიტანეთის მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Britisches Museum”
  • German: “British Museum”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “British Museum”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “de British Museum”
  • Greek: “Βρετανικό Μουσείο”
  • Hausa: “British Museum”
  • Hausa: “Gidan kayan tarihi na Biritaniya”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון הבריטי”
  • Hindi: “ब्रिटिश संग्रहालय”
  • Hungarian: “British Museum”
  • Icelandic: “Þjóðminjasafn Bretlands”
  • Igbo: “British Museum”
  • Indonesian: “British Museum”
  • Irish: “Músaem na Breataine”
  • Italian: “British Museum”
  • Japanese: “大英博物館”
  • Japanese: “英国博物館”
  • Kashmiri: “برِٛٹِش عَجٲیِب گرٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Британ музейі”
  • Kazakh: “Британ мұражайы”
  • Kirghiz: “Британ музейи”
  • Korean: “대영박물관”
  • Latin: “Museum Britannicum”
  • Latvian: “Britu muzejs”
  • Latvian: “The British Museum”
  • Literary Chinese: “大英博物館”
  • Lithuanian: “Britų muziejus”
  • Luxembourgish: “British Museum”
  • Macedonian: “Британски музеј”
  • Malay: “Muzium British”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് മ്യൂസിയം”
  • Maltese: “British Museum”
  • Maltese: “Mużew Brittaniku”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिटिश संग्रहालय”
  • Mazanderani: “بریتانیا موزه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-eng Phok-bu̍t-koán”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრიტანეთიშ მუზეუმი”
  • Mongolian: “Британийн музей”
  • Nepali: “ब्रिटिस सङ्ग्रहालय”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “British Museum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “British Museum”
  • Norwegian: “British Museum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “British Museum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bryttisc Museum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bryttisce Museum”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਮਿਊਜ਼ੀਅਮ”
  • Persian: “موزه بریتانیا”
  • Piemontese: “British Museum”
  • Polish: “British Museum”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Brytyjskie”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Britânico”
  • Portuguese: “The British Museum”
  • Pushto: “برېتانيايي موزيم”
  • Pushto: “د برتانيې موزيم”
  • Romanian: “British Museum”
  • Russian: “Британский музей”
  • Serbian: “Британски музеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “British Museum”
  • Sicilian: “British Museum”
  • Sindhi: “برٽش ميوزيم”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය කෞතුකාගාරය”
  • Slovak: “British Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Britanski muzej”
  • Spanish: “Museo Britanico”
  • Spanish: “Museo Británico”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⴰⵍⴰⵢ ⴰⴱⵔⵉⵟⴰⵏ”
  • Swedish: “British Museum”
  • Tagalog: “British Museum”
  • Tagalog: “Museong Britaniko”
  • Tajik: “Осорхонаи Британия”
  • Tamil: “பிரித்தானிய அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Telugu: “బ్రిటిష్ మ్యూజియం”
  • Telugu: “బ్రిటిష్ మ్యూసియం”
  • Thai: “บริติชมิวเซียม”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์บริติช”
  • Tswana: “Motlobo wa ditso wa Borithane”
  • Turkish: “British Museum”
  • Tyap: “Myuziyom A̱bi̱ri̱ti̱n”
  • Ukrainian: “Британський музей”
  • Urdu: “برٹش میوزیم”
  • Uzbek: “Britaniya muzeyi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Anh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Museo Britaniko”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa Brydeinig”
  • Welsh: “yr Amgueddfa Brydeinig”
  • Welsh: “Yr Amgueddfa Brydeinig”
  • Western Frisian: “Britsk Museum”
  • Western Panjabi: “برٹش میوزیم”
  • Wu Chinese: “大英博物馆”
  • Yiddish: “בריטישער מוזיי”
  • Yoruba: “British Museum”
  • Yoruba: “the British Museum”
  • Yue Chinese: “大英博物館”
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