From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extract text : " BRITISH MUSEUM.—The British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, was vested in trustees by Act of Parliament in 1753, and opened on January 15, 1759, old Montague House. The building, as it now stands, was designed by Sir Robert Smirke, and erected in 1823-52 ; and is an imposing structure of the Grecian-Ionic Of architecture. It is now open to the public every day, and lectures are frequently delivered. It contains the finest reading room extant, admission to which for of be obtained on application to the Ch
From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extract text : " BRITISH MUSEUM.—The British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, was vested in trustees by Act of Parliament in 1753, and opened on January 15, 1759, old Montague House. The building, as it now stands, was designed by Sir Robert Smirke, and erected in 1823-52 ; and is an imposing structure of the Grecian-Ionic Of architecture. It is now open to the public every day, and lectures are frequently delivered. It contains the finest reading room extant, admission to which for of be obtained on application to the Chief Librarian, and unrivalled collections of manuscripts, prints and drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, antiquities, British and antiquities, coins and medals and prehistoric relics, the finest collection in the world. "
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