British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ham II, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: national museum in London, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “BM” and “the British Museum”
Photo: Carlos Menendez San Juan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and London St Pancras International.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
London St Pancras International
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
London St Pancras International is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in London. It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland Europe.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
University
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is situated 1,300 feet northwest of British Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bloomsbury and St Giles.
Bloomsbury
This article is about three neighbourhoods of central London: Bloomsbury, St Pancras and Fitzrovia. Bloomsbury is the hub of London's university district, is home to the British Museum and is next to the British Library.
St Giles
Neighborhood
Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden. It is in Central London and part of the West End. The area gets its name from the parish church of St Giles in the Fields.
Seven Dials
Neighborhood
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seven Dials is a road junction and neighborhood in the St Giles district of the London Borough of Camden, within the greater Covent Garden area in the West End of London.
British Museum
- Categories: national museum, non-departmental public body, art museum, charitable organization, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Camden, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover British Museum from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“British Museum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Britse Museum”
- Arabic: “المتحف البريطاني”
- Armenian: “Բրիտանական թանգարան”
- Asturian: “Muséu Británicu”
- Azerbaijani: “Britaniya muzeyi”
- Azerbaijani: “Britaniya Muzeyi”
- Balinese: “Museum British”
- 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: “Tāi-eng Phok-bu̍t-koán”
- 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: “BM”
- 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: “BM”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “British Museum”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “de British Museum”
- Greek: “Βρετανικό Μουσείο”
- Hausa: “Gidan kayan tarihi na Biritaniya”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון הבריטי”
- Hindi: “ब्रिटिश संग्रहालय”
- Hungarian: “British Museum”
- Icelandic: “Þjóðminjasafn Bretlands”
- Igbo: “British Museum”
- Igbo: “Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke British”
- Indonesian: “British Museum”
- Irish: “Músaem na Breataine”
- Italian: “British Museum”
- Japanese: “大英博物館”
- Japanese: “英国博物館”
- Kazakh: “Британ музейі”
- Kirghiz: “Британ музейи”
- Korean: “대영박물관”
- Latin: “Museum Britannicum”
- Latvian: “BM”
- Latvian: “British Museum”
- 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”
- 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: “Muzeum Brytyjskie”
- Portuguese: “British Museum”
- Portuguese: “Museu Britânico”
- Portuguese: “The British Museum”
- Pushto: “برېتانيايي موزيم”
- Pushto: “د برتانيې موزيم”
- Romanian: “British Museum”
- Russian: “Британский музей”
- Serbian: “BM”
- Serbian: “British Museum”
- 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: “BM”
- Swedish: “British Museum”
- Tagalog: “British Museum”
- Tagalog: “Museong Britaniko”
- Tajik: “Осорхонаи Британия”
- Tamil: “பிரித்தானிய அருங்காட்சியகம்”
- 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”
- Yue Chinese: “大英博物館”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “British Museum”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Russell Square and Tottenham Court Road.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Grange Whitehall and Grange Blooms.
England: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into London, Manchester, Sheffield, and Leeds.
Curious Museums to Discover
Uncover intriguing museums from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “British Museum”. Photo: Ham II, CC BY-SA 3.0.