The British Museum is Britain's largest museum and one of the oldest in the world. It is also London's most visited attraction with over six million visitors each year. It is a museum of world culture with exhibits from every corner of the globe. The wonderful collection is enormous and diverse.

Treasures include the Rosetta Stone - the key to the understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs; The Elgin Marbles - sculpture from the Parthenon in Athens; the Sutton Hoo treasure - the precious grave possessions of a Saxon Warrior King; Lindow Man - a 2000-year old perfectly-preserved corpse found in a bog in central England; and the earliest known image of Christ.