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British Museum guided tours

Free volunteer-led tours most days, and a ticketed lap of the highlights at weekends.

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The Museum runs a full programme of tours from the Great Court. The free ones are volunteer-led: 40-minute Eye-opener tours of a single gallery at intervals through the day, 20-minute Spotlight tours on Friday evenings, a Tuesday tour of the Reading Room, and booked themed tours on LGBTQ histories (70 minutes) and African heritage (60 minutes). Hands On desks in six galleries let you handle real objects between 11:00 and 16:00.

The paid one is Around the World in 90 Minutes: the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, the Egyptian galleries and the rest, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 11:30 and 14:00, £15, twenty places, book ahead.

Where
British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG
Nearest station
Tottenham Court Road · 6 min walk

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