The British Museum Baby Onesie

The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works,[3] is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence[3] and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.[a]

The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1881. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the ob...

Let me introduce myself: My name is Martin and I am originally from Portsmouth. After spending my school years moving from city to city, I have finally settled in East Anglia with my wife an Daughter. Having always had a keen interest in photography, I actively took it up as a passion around ten years ago, and have been steadily building my portfolio ever since. Specialising in landscape and nature photography, capturing images as seen through my own eyes. I use minimal editing to ensure my images remain true to life depictions. I am lucky enough to have been recognised as a Viewbug image of the year finalist in 2014, and was selected as one of the top 20 winning images in the 2015 competition in the refurbishment of the new Essex...