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Saturday, August 7, 2021

The British Museum On Street View


You tin at nowadays explore the wonderful British Museum on Street View.

Enter the museum on Google Maps together with y'all tin pace into the impressive Great Court amongst its beautiful tessellated drinking glass roof. If y'all arrive at got a left out of the courtyard into Room iv of the museum y'all tin sentiment the Rosetta Stone, the rock which provided the commutation to our modern agreement of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

If y'all zoom-in on the rock y'all tin fifty-fifty endeavor to decipher the Greek, Demotic together with Hieroglyphic texts for yourself.


If y'all behave on straightaway through Room iv to the Parthenon Gallery y'all tin assay out the controversial Elgin Marbles. If y'all role the flooring carte y'all tin move upwards to the tertiary flooring where y'all tin run across the British Museum's amazing collection of Egyptian mummies.

The whole of the museum seems to arrive at got Street View imagery, therefore I could top away on amongst links to many to a greater extent than amazing exhibits inwards the British Museum,  However y'all tin besides view the British Museum on Google's Cultural Institute. With Google's Cultural Institute British Museum collection y'all tin explore the novel Street View imagery from the museum amongst added map markers.

The map markers on the Street View imagery inwards the Cultural Institute collection allows y'all to sentiment detailed information nearly selected items from the museum.


You tin besides explore roughly of the items inwards the British Museum using Google's novel Museum of the World timeline. This interactive timeline allows y'all to explore the British Museum's exhibits yesteryear time.

Travel along the timeline together with y'all tin notice to a greater extent than nearly objects from the British Museum’s collection from prehistory to the acquaint day. Click on an demo together with y'all tin read a detailed description together with fifty-fifty heed to British Museum curators every bit they percentage their insights on the selected object.

This WebGL timeline is a pretty impressive presentation of the British Museum's collection. Unfortunately it actually needs a search alternative (something y'all intend Google mightiness arrive at got been proficient at).