British Museum
The British Museum stands in London as a history museum spanning more than two million years of human culture. Inside, galleries bring together objects from Mexico, India, Egypt, Greece, Japan, and many other regions.
The Rosetta Stone connects the collection to ancient Egyptian writing, while the Parthenon sculptures and Egyptian mummies offer other familiar points of reference. Objects range from archaeological finds and religious art to scientific instruments, textiles, everyday tools, and contemporary works. The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World follows objects from West Africa to Southeast Asia, covering the seventh century to today.
A sixteenth-century mosque lamp from Iznik and an early eighteenth-century Iranian astrolabe show how widely the collection reaches across time and materials.
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The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Greater London. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.