Visiting the galleries
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Daily: 10.00–17.00
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Explore more than 60 galleries at the British Museum from home.
Our gallery pages feature a range of exciting resources, including virtual tours with Google Street View, object highlights, timelines, family activities and facts.
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.
Please note that galleries in the Museum may be closed for maintenance, refurbishment or private events. All planned closures will be listed on the Visit page. Occasionally we may need to close galleries at short notice for safety reasons. We regret that in these cases we're not always able to alert the public in advance.
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 6a

Assyria: Nimrud – OPEN
Rooms 7–8

Assyria: Nineveh – OPEN
Room 9

Assyria: Lion hunts, Siege of Lachish and Khorsabad
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
Room 16

Nereid Monument – OPEN
Room 17

Greece: Parthenon – OPEN
Room 18

Greece: Athens – OPEN
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
Room 24 (The Wellcome Trust Gallery)

North America
Room 26

Mexico
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 – 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 – OPEN
Room 56

Ancient Levant – OPEN
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)