The British Museum
I had never been to the British Museum and seeing as we had a day to spare in London before our flight to Singapore we decided to visit.
On my bucket list of things to see was one item - The Rosetta Stone, but the scale and scope of the collection was like nothing I have ever seen before. We decided to take a highlight tour which took a couple of hours, on our list was :
The Rosetta Stone
Ramses II (ancient Egyptian granite statue found at Luxor)
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the seven wonders of the world)
Venus (Roman statue in marble)
The Lewis Chessman (walrus ivory chess set found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland)
The Sutton Hoo helmet (iron cap, just one of four complete to survive from Anglo Saxon England)
The Astrolabe (brass Islamic astronomical device)
Shiva Nataraja (bronze cast of the Hindu God Shiva)
What a morning walking through a beautiful monumental building. The British Museum is open to all visitors for free, the exhibits are accessible to all and it is a collection of items that I have read about or not even known of - it was an amazing experience but one that I know I should read more about.