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  • Animals

    Explore the complex relationship between humans and animals as it is reflected in the British Museum collection

  • Money

    Money has been used in different forms all over the world for over 5,000 years. The British Museum has one of the largest collections of money in the world.

  • Time

    What is time? How do we measure it? What does it mean to us? Explore the different ways we perceive time through objects in the British Museum collection

  • Writing

    The British Museum collection includes thousands of objects with writing on them: a library of humanity’s memories

Highlights

Browse or search over 4,000 highlights from the Museum collection