BRITISH MUSEUM, Collections Building

After going through the main entrance on Russell Street, you're now in the central courtyard of the British Museum. Admission is free, just like at the National Gallery: you can choose to come here on separate occasions, bearing in mind the museum's temporary exhibitions dedicated to archaeology or even Renaissance drawings, of which it has an exceptional collection.

Considering the enormity of the building and its collections, I suggest taking a few minutes to look at the map and choose the sections or works you don't want to miss.

Undoubtedly, the British Museum also reflects the United Kingdom's faded colonial power. It is no coincidence that its section dedicated to Egypt is one of the largest in the world: it has thousands of works, sculptures, mummies, and jewels, in addition to the famous Rosetta Stone, which allowed the French archaeologist Champollion to decipher the ancient Egyptian language after attempts had been made for centuries.

The heart of the section devoted to Greek and Roman antiquities is the Duveen Gallery, which was specially designed to exhibit the Parthenon Marbles that were brought to London by Lord Elgin. The temporal range of the exhibited objects is surprisingly impressive: they date from the fourth millennium BC up to the first Italic and Roman civilisations....