Founded in 1753, Great Britain is one of the four major museums in the world, and is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world.

Although it is said to be four major museums, people generally only remember two museums, one is the Louvre Museum in France, the treasure of the museum, the Mona Lisa's smile is famous all over the world, and the other is the British Museum

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The British Museum can be said to be the pride of the British, so this museum is built with great luxury, standing in front of the door of this museum, just looking at the magnificent foyer, you can feel the grandeur of the face.

"The British Museum, there are more than 13 million exhibits, many of which were looted from all over the world during the most glorious period of Britain, including some of your Chinese cultural relics, for the British, this is a witness of our glorious history, but for you Chinese, this should be a scar!" Kelly said to Lin Yi with a smile.

Lin Yi nodded undeniably, there was really no way to object to this.

Many of the exhibits in the British Museum have a disgraceful origin, and even now, there are many countries that are fighting lawsuits with the British government over the contents of this museum.

The British Museum was once known as the Royal Museum because it was a time when British royalty donated a lot of artefacts to the museum.

The museum's collection was originally sourced from King George II's royal physician. More than 80,000 artifacts and specimens collected by the famous collector Sir Hans Sloan.

In 1823, King George IX donated a large number of books from his father, and in the more than 200 years since the opening of the museum, in addition to collecting a large number of British cultural relics, he also relied on the military force of the British to loot a large number of cultural relics from ancient countries such as Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India, and China.

The museum is currently divided into 10 branches: the Ancient Near East, the Coins and Commemorative Coins, the Egyptian, Ethnological, Greek and Roman Pavilions, the Japanese Pavilion, the Oriental Pavilion, the Prehistory and European Pavilion, the Printmaking and Drawing Gallery, and the Western Asia Pavilion.

Among them, the collections of the Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Oriental pavilions are the most eye-catching, and the Egyptian Pavilion is the largest exhibition hall, with more than 70,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts treasured. It is the most prestigious collection of the British Museum and represents the high civilization of ancient Egypt.

This is, of course, the same as after Britain split the Ottoman Empire and took control of Egypt and the Suez Canal. In Egypt, in the name of archaeology, the large-scale tomb robbery has a lot to do with it.

But the most striking of all the collections is the Oriental Pavilion, which has more than 100,000 artifacts from China, Japan, India and other Southeast Asian countries.

Among them, the Chinese showroom occupies several halls. The exhibits range from bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to porcelain from the Tang Dynasty and gold and jade products from the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to statistics, there are more than 20,000 rare treasures from China alone. The vast majority of them are priceless.

And this is still incomplete statistics, because of the relationship between the museum's exhibition space, the museum can only display 6.3 million cultural relics at present, and the remaining millions of cultural relics can only wait for time and take turns to take out the exhibition.

As a result, no one can say exactly how many antiques from China are in this museum.

However, one thing is for sure, almost all of the Chinese cultural relics hidden in this museum are the essence of Chinese antiques, and any one can be regarded as a national treasure in China.

Even many treasures have become extinct in China, but here, they can be found, which cannot but be said to be a regret and shame for the Chinese.

The museum now covers an area of 5.4 hectares, is a rectangular, milky white building, the main entrance is supported by 8 round columns to lift the narrow triangular end, there are many beautiful stone carvings in the triangle, it looks majestic, spectacular and solemn, he followed the flow of people, slowly walked to the gate of this museum.

The security check at the door is very strict, the entrance is the security department, you have to go through an X-ray, and you have to go through an X-ray of your belongings, and behind the security gate is a security guard with a big waist and a round waist, and the situation is similar to the style of the airport security check.

"Sir, there are many places in our museum where you can't take pictures, and the light of the camera can hurt these artifacts. After passing the inspection, a female tour guide introduced some information to Lin Yi.

"You don't need to bring it, we can just go by ourselves. Kelly performed an elegant aristocratic manner.

The tour guide was slightly stunned for a moment, showed a smile, bowed slightly, and said, "Of course." ”

The British Museum does not charge an entrance fee, but a box is placed at the gate, and visitors can put between £1 and £3 into it if they wish to pay for the museum's future maintenance of the collection.

Lin Yi and Kai Li had a tacit understanding that one of them bypassed the box and did not put coins into it, and then the two looked at each other and saw the smiles in each other's eyes.

After all, many of the collections here were stolen from other countries, especially China, so Lin Yi didn't plan to throw money into it, even if he didn't care about it at all.

Lin Yi shook his head, didn't want to think about it anymore, and walked towards the hall with Kelly.

Entering from the main entrance, the first thing that catches your eye is a magnificent fiberglass-roofed rotunda, which was opened to the public in the second half of 2000, when the queen came to cut the ribbon.

Bypassing the lobby and entering the pavilion, you will see a two-story building, about the same floor as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Most of the exhibition halls here are also on the first and second floors, and some are on the basement level, so this should be a three-story exhibition hall.

It has more than 90 exhibition halls, and currently has 6.5 million exhibits on display, with the rest of the collection rotating regularly.

Entering the exhibition hall, look to the left, is the Egyptian pavilion that attracts the most audience, at the entrance stands two black granite statues of the ancient Egyptian king Amenophis III, nearly 3 meters high.

Behind the statue is a stele engraved in 2 languages and 3 styles, which is the famous Rosetta Stone and one of the treasures of the British Museum.

Most of the Egyptian museums are collected with stone statues and mummies from Egypt, and it is said that the number of Egyptian mummies in this museum is the largest in the world, even exceeding the number of mummies in all museums in Egypt.

Lin Yi looked at the countless mummies in this museum, and was indeed a little speechless, because these are people's corpses! You not only robbed the tombs, but also took out people's corpses for exhibition, this is a whip corpse!

Lin Yi looked at Kelly who was full of interest beside him, and the corners of his mouth twitched, this British girl's heart is really big, this kind of thing can be appreciated with such interest, at this time he really wanted to ask, are you British people so heavy-minded, but I still can't help thinking about it.