British Museum
**The British Museum** was first opened to the public in 1759, in _Montagu House_, on the site of the current building. Its permanent collection of some _eight million works_ is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence.
##### **An approximate plan of the tour:**
**An introduction to the British Museum** - Explore the oldest space in the Museum and discover the history of the collection.
**The Classical World (The art of the Greeks and Romans)** - The British Museum has one of the world's _largest_ and most _comprehensive_ collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects.
**A close look at the Parthenon (Elgin) marbles** - are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor _Phidias_ and his assistants. They were originally part of the temple of the _Parthenon_ and other buildings on the _Acropolis of Athens_.
**The medieval world as reflected in the museum’s collections**