THE BRITISH MUSEUM THE TATE GALLERY AND MADAME

THE BRITISH MUSEUM, THE TATE GALLERY AND MADAME TUSSAUDS MADE BY : VISCONTE GABRIELE E LOMBARDO LEONARDO II A

THE BRITISH MUSEUM The British Museum in London is one of the world's largest and most important museums of human history and culture. There are three important departments: • The department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan • The department of Greece and Rome • The department of the Middle East The most famous exhibitions are: • The Elgin marbles; • The Rosetta Stone

THE DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT EGYPT AND SUDAN The British Museum’s department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan is one of the biggest collections of Ancient Egyptian art in the world. Around 150 of the objects in the Egyptian department were part of the first collection which was given to the Museum by Hans Sloane in 1753. In 1801 the British defeated the French, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, at the battle of the Nile. After the battle, British forces took lots of Ancient Egyptian artifacts from the defeated French. They were given to the British Museum in 1803. These objects included the famous Rosetta Stone.

THE ROSETTA STONE The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing carved into it. French soldiers found it in Egypt in 1799. The stone is named after the city where it was found, Rosetta. Today, that city is called "Rashid". The stone had three pieces of writing on it that said the same thing in three different languages. One was in an Ancient Egyptian script called demotic, the local language of the people in Egypt at that time. The other two languages were hieroglyphics and Ancient Greek.

THE DEPARTEMENT OF GREECE AND ROME The British Museum's department of Greece and Rome is one of the biggest collections of Ancient Greek and Roman objects in the world. It contains parts of two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos. It also had many pieces taken from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.

THE ELGIN MARBLES The Parthenon Marbles, called the Elgin Marbles, are a series of ancient Greek sculptures made from marble. They were originally part of the Parthenon temple in Athens but they were taken by Thomas Bruce, 7 th Earl of Elgin in the early 1800 s.

THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EAST The British Museum’s Department of the Middle East has the largest collection of Mesopotamian art in the world, outside Iraq. In this department there are: • The Cyrus Cylinder • Several tall statues of lions and bulls with human heads. • The bronze gates of the fortress of Galawat.

THE TATE GALLERY The Tate Gallery is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is a network of four art museums: Tate Britain, London (until 2000 known as the Tate Gallery, founded in 1897), Tate Liverpool (founded in 1988), Tate St Ives, Cornwall (founded in 1993) and Tate Modern, London (founded in 2000). The gallery was founded in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art.

TATE BRITAIN It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country.

MADAME TUSSAUDS Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities: New York, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, Hong Kong. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud; she had learned the art of modeling wax from an early age, creating the first masterpieces. Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and unknown murderers. There also other spectacular attractions such as the Planetarium and the Horrors’ room.

PLANETARIUM HORRORS’ ROOM