This month marks ten years since the British Museum’s Round Reading Room was closed to visitors. One of the most awe-inspiring architectural spaces in the capital, it now remains a distant ...

The British Museum’s vast and imposing Round Reading Room has reopened this week to all visitors after being closed for the past 11 years. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 ...

The domed Reading Room first opened on May 2 ... but it is splendid to have the jewel restored to the architectural crown of the British Museum at last.

(Photo feature by: Nussaiba bin Shaiba) LONDON, Sept 16 (KUNA) -- The Reading Room in the British Museum is one of its iconic spaces, historically renowned as a place of study and intellectual ...

The British ... of the museum’s identity thanks to one feline in particular. Black Jack—a black cat with a white chest and “remarkably long” whiskers—preferred the Round Reading Room ...

the British Museum. The world-renowned museum’s majestic Reading Room, Room 17 – home of the ancient Lycian Nereid Monument – and the museum’s China and South Asia gallery will be the ...

One of the most striking things about visiting the British Museum (apart from all the spooky ... time to find a cursed Egyptian book, the reading of which will cast untold doom on you and your ...

A cultural powerhouse or a celebration of stolen artifacts from colonial times? The British Museum is a fascinating window into global culture—despite the problematic origins of many exhibits.