Visiting the galleries
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Daily: 10.00–17.00
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Explore more than 60 galleries at the British Museum from home.
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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.
Ground floor
Enlightenment – OPEN
Room 1
Collecting the world – OPEN
Room 2
The Waddesdon Bequest – OPEN
Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)
Egyptian sculpture – OPEN
Room 4
Assyrian sculpture and Balawat Gates – OPEN
Room 6
Assyria: Nimrud – OPEN
Rooms 7–8
Assyria: Nineveh – OPEN
Room 9
Assyria: Lion hunts, Siege of Lachish and Khorsabad – OPEN
Room 10
Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans
Room 12 (The Arthur I Fleischman Gallery)
Greece 1050–520 BC
Room 13
Greek vases
Room 14
Athens and Lycia
Room 15
Greece: Bassai sculptures
Room 16
Nereid Monument
Room 17
Greece: Parthenon
Room 18
Greece: Athens
Room 19
Greeks and Lycians 400–325 BC
Room 20
Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
Room 21
The world of Alexander
Room 22
Greek and Roman sculpture – OPEN
Room 23
Living and Dying – OPEN
Room 24 (The Wellcome Trust Gallery)
North America – OPEN
Room 26
Mexico – OPEN
Room 27
China and South Asia
Room 33 (The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery)
India: Amaravati
Room 33a (The Asahi Shimbun Gallery)
Chinese jade
Room 33b (The Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne Gallery)
Korea – OPEN
Room 67 (The Korea Foundation Gallery)
Chinese Ceramics – Sir Percival David Collection – OPEN
Room 95 (The Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies)
Great Court – OPEN
Great Court
East stairs – OPEN
East stairs
Upper floors
Clocks and watches – OPEN
Rooms 38–39 (The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Gallery)
Medieval Europe, 1050–1500 – OPEN
Room 40 (The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery)
Sutton Hoo and Europe, AD 300–1100 – OPEN
Room 41 (The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery)
The Islamic world – OPEN
Rooms 42–43 (The Albukhary Foundation Gallery)
Europe 1400–1800 – OPEN
Room 46
Europe 1800–1900 – OPEN
Room 47
Europe 1900 to the present
Room 48
Roman Britain – OPEN
Room 49 (The Weston Gallery)
Britain and Europe 800 BC–AD 43 – OPEN
Room 50
Europe and Middle East 10,000–800 BC – OPEN
Room 51 (The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Gallery)
Ancient Iran – OPEN
Room 52 (The Rahim Irvani Gallery)
Ancient South Arabia – OPEN
Room 53 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Anatolia and Urartu, 7000–300 BC – OPEN
Room 54 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Mesopotamia, 1500–539 BC – OPEN
Room 55 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Mesopotamia, 6000–1500 BC – OPEN
Room 56 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Ancient Levant – OPEN
Rooms 57–59 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Egyptian life and death: the tomb-chapel of Nebamun – OPEN
Room 61 (The Michael Cohen Gallery)
Egyptian death and afterlife: mummies – OPEN
Rooms 62–63 (The Roxie Walker Galleries)
Early Egypt – OPEN
Room 64 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Sudan, Egypt and Nubia – OPEN
Room 65 (The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery)
Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt – OPEN
Room 66
Money – OPEN
Room 68
Greek and Roman life – OPEN
Room 69
Roman Empire – OPEN
Room 70 (The Wolfson Gallery)
Etruscan world – OPEN
Room 71
Ancient Cyprus – OPEN
Room 72 (The A.G. Leventis Gallery)
Greeks in Italy – OPEN
Room 73
Prints and drawings displays – OPEN
Rooms 90 and 90a
Japan – OPEN
Rooms 92–94 (The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries)