Visiting the galleries
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Below you'll find a list of galleries on the lower floor, ground floor and upper floors, together with two galleries created especially for our online audience, Oceania and Prints and Drawings.
Ground floor

Enlightenment – OPEN
Room 1

Collecting the world – OPEN
Room 2

The Waddesdon Bequest – OPEN
Room 2a (funded by The Rothschild Foundation)

Egyptian sculpture – OPEN
Room 4

Assyrian sculpture and Balawat Gates – OPEN
Room 6

Assyria: Nimrud – OPEN
Rooms 7–8

Assyria: Nineveh – OPEN
Room 9

Assyria: Lion hunts, Siege of Lachish and Khorsabad – OPEN
Room 10

Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans – OPEN
Room 12 (The Arthur I Fleischman Gallery)

Greece 1050–520 BC – OPEN
Room 13

Greek vases – OPEN
Room 14

Athens and Lycia – OPEN
Room 15

Greece: Bassai sculptures – OPEN
Room 16

Nereid Monument – OPEN
Room 17

Greece: Parthenon – OPEN
Room 18

Greece: Athens
Room 19

Greeks and Lycians 400–325 BC
Room 20

Mausoleum of Halikarnassos – OPEN
Room 21

The world of Alexander – OPEN
Room 22

Greek and Roman sculpture – OPEN
Room 23

Living and Dying – OPEN
Room 24 (The Wellcome Trust Gallery)

North America – OPEN
Room 26

Mexico – OPEN
Room 27

Great Court – OPEN
Great Court

East stairs – OPEN
East stairs
Upper floors

China and South Asia – OPEN
Room 33 (The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery)

India: Amaravati – OPEN
Room 33a (The Asahi Shimbun Gallery)

Chinese jade – OPEN
Room 33b (The Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne Gallery)

Clocks and watches – OPEN
Rooms 38–39 (The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Gallery)

Medieval Europe, 1050–1500 – OPEN
Room 40 (The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery)

Sutton Hoo and Europe, AD 300–1100 – OPEN
Room 41 (The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery)

The Islamic world – PARTIALLY OPEN
Rooms 42–43 (The Albukhary Foundation Gallery)

Europe 1400–1800 – OPEN
Room 46

Europe 1800–1900 – OPEN
Room 47

Europe 1900 to the present – OPEN
Room 48

Roman Britain – OPEN
Room 49 (The Weston Gallery)

Britain and Europe 800 BC–AD 43 – OPEN
Room 50

Europe and Middle East 10,000–800 BC – OPEN
Room 51 (The Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Gallery)

Ancient Iran – OPEN
Room 52 (The Rahim Irvani Gallery)

Ancient South Arabia – OPEN
Room 53

Anatolia and Urartu, 7000–300 BC – OPEN
Room 54

Mesopotamia, 1500–539 BC – OPEN
Room 55

Mesopotamia, 6000–1500 BC – PARTIALLY OPEN
Room 56

Ancient Levant
Rooms 57–59

Egyptian life and death: the tomb-chapel of Nebamun – OPEN
Room 61 (The Michael Cohen Gallery)

Egyptian death and afterlife: mummies – OPEN
Rooms 62–63 (The Roxie Walker Galleries)

Early Egypt – OPEN
Room 64

Sudan, Egypt and Nubia – OPEN
Room 65

Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt – OPEN
Room 66

Korea – OPEN
Room 67 (The Korea Foundation Gallery)

Money – OPEN
Room 68

Greek and Roman life – OPEN
Room 69

Roman Empire – OPEN
Room 70 (The Wolfson Gallery)

Etruscan world – OPEN
Room 71

Ancient Cyprus – OPEN
Room 72 (The A.G. Leventis Gallery)

Greeks in Italy – OPEN
Room 73

Prints and drawings displays – OPEN
Rooms 90 and 90a

Japan – OPEN
Rooms 92–94 (The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries)

Chinese Ceramics – Sir Percival David Collection – OPEN
Room 95 (The Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies)