British Museum - Galleries

Galleries

Building

• Main Staircase, Discobolus of Myron (the Discus-Thrower)

• British Museum Reading Room

• Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, c. 350 BC

• Detail of a Ionic capital of a pilaster in the Great Court

• African Garden - created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

Museum Galleries

Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

• Room 4 - Egyptian Sculpture, view towards the Assyrian Transept

• Room 61 - The famous false fresco 'Pond in a Garden' from the Tomb of Nebamun, c. 1350 BC

Department of the Middle East

• The British Museum, Room 6 - Assyrian Sculpture

• Room 8 - Pair of Lamassu from Nimrud & reliefs from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III

• Room 7 - Reliefs from the North-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud

• Room 89 - Nimrud & Nineveh Palace Reliefs

• Room 10 - Nineveh, The Royal Lion Hunt

• Room 55 - The Dying Lion, Nineveh, Neo-Assyrian, c. 645 BC (long considered a masterpiece of Assyrian art)

• Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, 9th-8th century BC (the Nimrud Ivories are widely considered to be one of the Ancient Near East's greatest discoveries)

Department of Greece and Rome

• Room 18 - Ancient Greece

• Room 20a - Tomb of Merehi & Greek Vases, Lycia, 360 BC

• Room 85 - Portrait Sculpture, Roman

• Room 83 - Roman Sculpture

• Main Staircase - Discobolus, Roman

• Main Staircase - Townley Caryatid, Roman, 140-160 AD

• Room 22 - Marble statue of Demeter, Sanctuary of Demeter, Knidos, 350-330 BC

Department of Prints and Drawings

• Leonardo da Vinci - The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist ('The Burlington House Cartoon') (c. 1499–1500)

• Room 90 - Michelangelo's Epifania - his only surviving large scale cartoon (1550–53)

• Raphael - Study of Heads, Mother and Child (c. 1509/11)

Department of Prehistory and Europe

• Room 38-39 - Mechanical Galleon, Augsburg, around AD 1585

Exhibitions

Forgotten Empire Exhibition (October 2005 - January 2006)

• Room 5 - Exhibitions Panorama

• Room 5 - The Persepolis Casts

• Room 5 - Exhibitions Relics

• Room 5 - The Cyrus Cylinder