British travel guide
1. British Museum Travel Guide
The British Museum is one of the three largest collection centers of sketches and prints in the world. It contains the works of famous painters such as Diu Lei, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt and Goya, including 50,000 sketches and more than 2 million prints. The collection dates from the early 15th century to the present.
The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England. Founded in 1753, the museum was officially opened to the public on January 15th, 1759. It is the oldest and grandest comprehensive museum in the world and one of the largest and most famous four museums in the world.
2. The British Museum Raiders must see.
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3. Tickets to the British Museum
Tickets for Shanghai Insect Museum need not be reserved for individuals. Shanghai Insect Museum is located at No.300, fenglin road, Xuhui District, Shanghai. The opening hours are from 9:00 am to 16:30 pm. Being affiliated to Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, it has the reputation of being the British Museum in Asia, and the storage of animal and plant specimens produced in China ranks first in the Far East. There are more than 1 million insect specimens collected all over the country.
4. Tour route of British Museum
There are also many cultural relics in the museum, including the statue of Ramses II and the majestic lion with the first wing, the guardian of the Persian palace.
5. Travel Notes of the British Museum
With the increasing expansion of the "empire that never sets", the British Museum has also become the most powerful exhibition platform for its colonial cause. Through throwing gold to buy, organizing archaeological excavations, and even blatant looting, various carriers of world civilization have merged into the British Museum like spring tides. The most famous is the arrival of Captain Cook's collection, Egyptian antiquities, Elgin stone carvings and Dunhuang documents.
James cook is a navigator who made a fundamental contribution to marine geography after Columbus. He is famous for his three expeditions to the South Pacific. He discovered the Australian mainland and named the east coast of Australia New South Wales in the name of the British government. Since then, the colonial territory of the British Empire has increased by the largest part. Captain Cook also visited Antarctica and the South Pacific including Easter Island, Tonga, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, norfolk island and the Cook Islands named after him. The rare treasures he acquired during his ocean voyage were sent to the warehouse of the British Museum twice in 1771 and 1775, respectively, and became "the most popular exhibits in the museum before the exquisite Egyptian collection came".
Exquisite Egyptian collections poured in with the expansion of imperial career. In 1798, Napoléon Bonaparte, a new conqueror, was ushered in Egypt, which had been ruled by foreigners for more than 2,000 years. When the soldiers rebuilt their fortifications in Rosetta, 40 miles away from the Nile Delta, they dug up a granite stone tablet engraved with three characters, which was the treasure of the town hall later named Rosetta Stone. As a trophy of the French, this stone tablet finally settled in the British Museum, witnessing blood shed in the process of Britain and France fighting for the Middle East.
Napoleon, who was defeated in the naval battle at the mouth of the Nile, left the army and returned to France alone. In 1801, France surrendered to the generals of Britain and Egypt, and the Alexander Agreement signed later required the French to hand over all cultural relics, including the Rosetta Stone. The hieroglyphics engraved on it were finally deciphered by French scholar champollion. Since then, the world can read the ancient characters on mummies and papyrus.
In 1799, Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to Turkey, bribed Turkish officials in Greece and ordered them to take away sculptures and building components from the Parthenon in Greece or excavate them in the Acropolis in Athens and transport them to Britain. In 1816, the British government purchased these stone carvings and deposited them in the British Museum. For this reason, Byron, a pro-Greek English romantic poet, complained in Childe Harold's Travels: "What is insensitive is those eyes that don't shed tears, watching the British hand destroy your wall and move your broken altar ..."
Since Greece became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1829, it has been asking the British Museum for these national treasures from the Parthenon. The directors of the museum declined this request with a statement. The Parthenon Stone Carvings "are the key components of this interconnected world collection family, and they are all part of the world's shared heritage, beyond the political boundaries".
In the middle and late 19th century, when the colonial tentacles extended to the Far East, the ancient Chinese civilization opened the long-forgotten door. From 1856 to 1932, a large number of archaeological teams from the western world went deep into the northwest and plundered a large number of cultural relics. In 1907, during his second archaeological trip to Central Asia, marc aurel stein came to Dunhuang along the ancient Silk Road south of Lop Nur. He brought back to England more than 9,000 manuscripts and more than 500 paintings found in the cave of Tibetan Scriptures from Wang Yuanlu, a Taoist who guarded the cave. There are more than 13,700 Dunhuang documents in the British Museum, accounting for a quarter of the Dunhuang documents in existence.
From Chelsea Manor to Montague House, from Townley Exhibition Hall to the construction of two new buildings and the demolition of Montague House, from a few simple architectural combinations to the completion of a number of buildings including the Natural Museum, geological museum, Science Museum, British Library, etc., the British Museum continues to expand with the surge of collections and visitors. Today, the British Museum has more than 8 million pieces, covering more than 2 million years of human history. The richness and variety of collections are rare in museums all over the world. Even if such a large number of exhibits are changed once a year, they will not be fully displayed even if they are exhibited in turn for 100 years. What's more, donations and purchases are still going on.
George Brown Goode, an American museum expert, once said, "The museum is not about what it has, but what it has done with its useful resources." This sentence has always been regarded as a wise saying by western museums. Nowadays, the museum has long been divorced from the introverted function of traditional museums in collecting and sorting out cultural relics, but has increasingly demonstrated its extroverted function of service and education. This unique, experiential, immersive and personalized way of education, which is different from school education, has made parents with modern educational ideas flock to it, and once formed a museum fever. Every holiday, a large number of students and scholars from home and abroad flock to the British Museum, linger in the glass display cases, stop in front of stone carvings and scrolls, and meditate in front of cultural relics and historical sites. This is probably the best reward for Sir Si Long's insistence on "thinking of public use".
6. Introduction to the British Museum
Construction layout
Building scale
Great atrium of British National Museum
The main building of the museum is in Bloomsbury, London, and the core building covers an area of about 56,000 square meters. On both sides of the main entrance of the museum, there are eight thick and tall Greek Ionian columns. The Great Court, located in the center of the British Museum, was opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe. The top of the square is made up of 3312 triangular glass sheets, and the center of the square is the reading room of the British Museum, which is open to the public.
The existing building was built in the mid-19th century. There are 70 fixed exhibition halls that are open to the public all the year round, with an area of 60,000 square meters and more than 8 million exhibits. On both sides of the main entrance of the museum, there are 8 thick and high Ionian columns. In addition to enjoying the exhibits, visitors can also appreciate the British people's Excellence in museum design. The British Museum has been open to the public free of charge except for a few months in 1972.
Egyptian museum of cultural relics
The Egyptian Museum of Cultural Relics is divided into mummies and Egyptian architecture, and it is one of the largest thematic exhibition halls in the museum. There are large-scale human and animal stone carvings, temple buildings, a large number of mummies, inscriptions, murals, stone carving vessels and gold jewelry. Its exhibits can be traced back to more than 5,000 years ago, with a collection of more than 100,000 pieces, including ancient Egyptian works of art seized by Nelson, commander-in-chief of the British navy in the 19th century, from King Napoleon of France.
Oriental art cultural relics museum
The museum has more than 100,000 cultural relics from China, Japanese, Indian and other Southeast Asian countries. Among them, the China showroom (China Pavilion) occupies several halls, and China cultural relics are regarded as one of the most important collections by the British Museum, with a total of more than 23,000 pieces, which are like mountains of treasures. The British Museum claims that the ancient China collection, together with the ancient Greek and Egyptian collections, is the most important and precious human cultural heritage collected by the British Museum. The exhibits in the British Museum range from bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties to porcelain in Tang and Song Dynasties and jade products in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Many cultural relics are peerless treasures, such as the murals of Qingliang Temple in Xingtang County, Hebei Province, the Tang Dynasty copy of Gu Kaizhi's "A Picture of Women's History" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Kang Houchan in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the three-color funeral in the Tang Dynasty.
Exhibition content
China Collection of British Museum
The collection originally came from more than 80,000 cultural relics and specimens collected by Sir hans sloane, the physician of King George II of England and an ancient player. In 1823, King George IX of England donated his father's large collection of books. Over the past 200 years, the museum has continued to collect cultural relics from Britain and ancient countries such as Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India and China.
Ancient Egyptian art is the most famous collection in the British Museum. The most striking thing in the British Museum is the Oriental Art and Cultural Relics Museum. The museum has more than 100,000 cultural relics from China, Japanese, Indian and other Southeast Asian countries. Among them, China showroom occupies half of Hall 3, with exhibits ranging from bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties to porcelain in Tang and Song Dynasties and precious jade products in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 23,000 rare treasures from China alone, most of which are priceless. For example, paintings and embroideries of various dynasties in China, unearthed cultural relics in various periods, paintings and calligraphy in Tang and Song Dynasties, porcelain in Ming and Qing Dynasties, etc., among which the most precious ones are "Zhen Tu of Women's History", three-color portraits of Luohan in Song Dynasty, Dunhuang scriptures and famous paintings in Song and Ming Dynasties. Shang Dynasty bronze statue is two conjoined sheep with a round statue tube in the middle, which is very beautiful and exquisite in shape. There is also a Song Dynasty porcelain hip flask, with a lotus flower around its base and responsibilities, and a lion sitting on the lid, which is a rare treasure.
Famous collection
The Egyptian Pavilion inside the British National Museum.
Rosetta Stone in Egypt (the most precious Egyptian cultural relic acquired by Britain after Napoleon's defeat in Egypt)
Marble sculpture of Parthenon in Athens (acquired in 1816 and demanded by Greece)
The head of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (purchased in 1823).
Franks jewelry box (obtained in 1867)
Portland Vase (Portland vase)
Taoist figures in the British Museum
Blue-and-white porcelain plate with mandarin fish pattern in the British Museum
Elgin marble sculpture at the Parthenon in ancient Greece (purchased from the seventh Earl of Elgin in 1816)
Ramesses II (donated by Henry Salt in 1817)
Charlotte Brontexq pursues a love letter written by a professor when studying in Brussels.
Charlotte Brontexq pursued a love letter from a married professor when he was a tutor.
Charlotte Brontexq reviled Jane Austen's original letterhead.
Charlotte Brontexq's photo of cursing with the third-rate writers in the newspaper.
Rosetta stone
Rosetta stone
From 1798 to 1801, Napoleon fought in Egypt, bringing with him more than 100 scientists and archaeologists who studied Egyptian culture. In 1799, in a small village called Rosetta in the Nile Delta, when soldiers were building fortifications, they accidentally dug up a black broken monument with a height of 1.14 meters and a width of 0.73 meters. The words on the stone tablet are clearly visible, which are carved in three different words.
Archaeologists embedded in the army concluded that this stone tablet was unusual and was transported to Cairo and rubbinged for research. Napoleon's army was defeated by the British in 1801. According to the war agreement, France unconditionally handed over all the cultural relics excavated in Egypt. In the end, the Rosetta Stone was collected by the British National Museum. The inscription on the stone tablet also reads "trophy of British army"
China Pavilion
British Museum
Hall 33 of the British Museum is a permanent exhibition hall dedicated to China's cultural relics, and it is one of the few national exhibition halls in the museum, just like the exhibition halls of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and India. The museum's collection of China cultural relics includes the whole art category of China. In a word, ancient stone tools, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Wei and Jin stone Buddha scriptures, Tang and Song paintings, Ming and Qing porcelain and other national treasures engraved with the pinnacle of various cultures in China's history can be seen here, which can be described as complete and beautiful.
As the earliest silk painting in China and one of the works of the earliest professional painter in China, A Picture of Women's History is a milestone in the history of fine arts in China, and it has always been a treasure in the court collections of past dynasties. There are only two copies left in the world, one of which was copied by the Song people and collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the brushwork color is not top grade. The other is this copy in the British Museum. It was originally hidden in the Qing Palace, and it was the desk favorite of Emperor Qianlong, and it was hidden in the Yuanmingyuan. In 1860, the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, and the British captain Ji Yong obtained it from China and took it abroad. In 1903, it was collected by the British Museum for 25 pounds and became the most important oriental cultural relic in the museum. It is no exaggeration to call it "the treasure of the town hall". However, this scroll is only exhibited for two months a year.
Murals of Qingliang Temple in Ming Dynasty in Xingtang County, Hebei Province and Three-color Luohan in Liao Dynasty
Other masterpieces include Green Landscape Painting by Li Sixun, the ancestor of the Northern Sect and the painter of the Tang Dynasty; The Picture of Maolin Diezhang by Ju Ran, a representative of Jiangnan Painting School in the Five Dynasties; Visiting Friends with the Qin by Fan Kuan, one of the three famous landscape painters in the Northern Song Dynasty; Hua Yan in disguise by Li Gonglin, a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty; and Ink Bamboo Painting by Su Shi, one of the eight famous painters in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In addition, there are Shang Dynasty bronze double sheep statue, Western Zhou Dynasty Kanghou bronze GUI, Xing Hougui, Han Dynasty jade carving Yulong, Tang Dynasty topaz sitting dog "Yongle Dadian" 10 volumes.
On the central wall of China Hall, there is a 17.2 square meter mural of Qingliang Temple in Xingtang County, Hebei Province. Although its cut marks are still visible, it is difficult to hide its long-standing beauty and the elegance of three "rich and fat" bodhisattvas.
There are tens of thousands of Dunhuang scrolls and scriptures in the British Museum. Except for four silk paintings and a wooden Buddha, other collections are hard to find in China Hall.
From 1856 to 1932, many so-called "western explorers" went deep into the northwest of China for more than 60 times in the name of scientific investigation, and each time they plundered a large number of cultural relics. Among them, especially in 1907, Stein, a Hungarian, and Bosch, a Frenchman, looted the most cultural relics in Dunhuang Tibetan Sutra Cave.
The British Library also contains more than 60,000 kinds of precious documents and ancient books from China, including the earliest version of Paramita Buddhist Scriptures in China, as well as Oracle bone inscriptions, bamboo slips, carved ancient books, Dunhuang Tibetan Scriptures and maps.
Parthenon marble
Parthenon Marbles, a precious group of reliefs in the museum, even influenced the diplomatic relations between Greece and Britain. Although the Greek government has repeatedly asked for the return of this group of ancient marble reliefs which were demolished by the British ambassador Earl Elgin in 1806 to decorate the Parthenon, they have been rejected by successive British governments.
The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England. Founded in 1753, the museum was officially opened to the public on January 15th, 1759. It is the oldest and grandest comprehensive museum in the world and one of the largest and most famous four museums in the world. The museum collects many cultural relics and treasures from all over the world and many manuscripts of great scientists. The richness and variety of the collection are rare in museums all over the world. The British Museum has a collection of more than 8 million pieces. Due to space constraints, 99% of the collections were not exhibited in public.
The British Museum has an extensive collection of cultural relics and can be called a museum of world history. Precious cultural relics abound in Babylonia, Indian, China and Greece, the birthplace of human civilization. Greek stone carvings, Indian gem ring, Babylonian silverware and Chinese porcelain are dazzling. There are several body discovered thousands of years earlier than Mawangdui, but they are not from Britain, but from Egypt. More than a dozen mummies on display are only part of the collection. The collection of Egyptian cultural relics in the British Museum, especially mummies, is the largest outside Egypt.
On August 10, 2018, the British Museum held a private ceremony to return eight items about 5,000 years ago to the Iraqi ambassador to Britain, Saleh Hussein Ali.
Since March 18th, 2020, the British Museum has been closed due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
7. Travel guide map of British Museum
The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England. Founded in 1753, the museum was officially opened to the public on January 15th, 1759. It is the oldest and grandest comprehensive museum in the world and one of the largest and most famous four museums in the world. The museum collects many cultural relics and treasures from all over the world and many manuscripts of great scientists. The richness and variety of the collection are rare in museums all over the world. The British Museum has a collection of more than 8 million pieces. Due to space constraints, 99% of the collections were not exhibited in public.
My friend, it mainly depends on what level you play. The bus from Deyang Station to Suining is OK. If you go to Britain, ask the driver to brake once.
It's much more troublesome to transfer from Chengdu.
There is accommodation in the Dead Sea. As for the specific situation, you'd better choose slowly when you get there. There are stars and small guest houses, so it's cheaper.
You're also called a medium-distance tour. You can leave early in the morning in one day, and it takes two hours to get to Britain at most.
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