Galleries

Explore more than 60 galleries at the British Museum from home.

Our gallery pages feature a range of exciting resources, including virtual tours with Google Street View, object highlights, timelines, family activities and facts.

Below you’ll find a list of galleries on the lower floor, ground floor and upper floors, together with two galleries created especially for our online audience, Oceania and Prints and Drawings.

Please note that galleries in the Museum may be closed for maintenance, refurbishment or private events. All planned closures will be listed on the Visit page. Occasionally we may need to close galleries at short notice for safety reasons. We regret that in these cases we’re not always able to alert the public in advance. 

Visiting the galleries

Visiting the galleries

Daily: 10.00–17.00 See full opening hours

The Tudor Heart appeal

Discover the one-of-a-kind gold pendant associated with Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon – and how you can help secure it for the nation.

Family festivities for Halloween

Celebrate the spooky season this half-term with our five-day family festival of storytelling, workshops and performances.

Clocks that brew tea, sing and explode

Join curator Oliver Cooke on a guided tour through some of the Museum’s most ingenious and unusual clocks, watches and machines.

Frightening fiestas and sacred ceremonies

Explore how cultures around the world find meaning in the macabre with rituals of remembrance and meditations on mortality.

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Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

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Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

Enlightenment

Room 1

Collecting the world

Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

The Waddesdon Bequest

Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation) 

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The Tudor Heart appeal

Discover the one-of-a-kind gold pendant associated with Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon – and how you can help secure it for the nation.

Family festivities for Halloween

Celebrate the spooky season this half-term with our five-day family festival of storytelling, workshops and performances.

Clocks that brew tea, sing and explode

Join curator Oliver Cooke on a guided tour through some of the Museum’s most ingenious and unusual clocks, watches and machines.

Frightening fiestas and sacred ceremonies

Explore how cultures around the world find meaning in the macabre with rituals of remembrance and meditations on mortality.