Audio tour: collection highlights

Enjoy extracts from our audio guide about some of the British Museum's most popular objects.

From ancient flint handaxes to a penny defaced by suffragettes, listen to the audio tour while looking at the objects in the timeline below.

Choose your audio tour language: 

• English
• 한국어
• Français
• Deutsch
• Italiano
• Español
• عربى
• Русский
• 日本語

Sponsored by

Korean Air is one of the world's leading airlines and proud to sponsor the British Museum's new audio and family guides.

With a network that spans five continents and over 50 years' experience in the industry, Korean Air aims to ensure the most comfortable passenger experience in the air. Through change and innovation on a global scale, the airline continues to achieve 'Excellence in Flight'.

It's Korean Air's goal to connect people through transport and to create opportunities for enhanced cultural understanding. Korean Air is committed to expanding its cultural sponsorship programme across the world.

With this goal in mind, Korean Air is proud to sponsor the audio guides at the British Museum, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Sponsorship of Museum audio guides serves as an opportunity to expand the scope of visitor appreciation of arts and culture in a convenient and user-friendly way.

Korean Air is proud to serve as an innovator and provider of excellence to the global community and to realise its vision to be a respected leader in the world airline community.

Find out more about Korean Air's community initiatives.