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Don’t miss Level 1 33a 33 C 33 B Baby changing Level 1 Only up to 95 and 67 A The Holy Thorn , North Level 1 stairs 2a Baby feeding A medieval masterpiece Members’ Montague cloakroom Place entrance Montague B Tang dynasty figures, Level -1 Anthropology Library Café 33b Shop Room 33 and Research Centre From the tomb of a general North stairs Level Up to 24 and Great Court or down -1 & 0 to the Montague Place entrance Great Court Restaurant C Shiva Nataraja Level 0 (Lord of the Dance), Room 33 30 A remarkable bronze Café from south India West 24 26 27 D Up to 20a stairs Hoa Hakananai’a, Room 24 Information Desk A colossal ancestor figure from Level 0 29a 29b East D Down stairs Rapa Nui/Easter Island 20 to 25 Up to Members’ Room via Court Café Tickets & Membership Desk E The Stone, Room 4 21 West stairs & lift The key to deciphering 18 19 Great Court Shop 9 4 Level 0 Level 0 1 F Families Desk Court (weekends and school holidays only) F Assyrian Lion Hunt reliefs, 22 Café Room 10 18b Cloakroom An ancient king’s triumph over G E nature 18 17 23 8 4 Collections Book 1 Shop Shop Audio guide G , 18a Down to 91 Room 18 F Level 5 16 94 93 92 Iconic sculpture from ancient Stairs Greece 10 7 4 1 North stairs 18 15 Great Court Level 5 F Lift Down to Down to Level 0 14 Clore Centre Clore Centre

South Grenville Level access lift 13 6 stairs Room 2

12 6 3 A Up to 94 Please note that some 2a Level 4 55 91a 91 90 90a galleries may be closed Pizzeria at short notice due to North Levels unforeseen circumstances Forecourt 3 & 4 Level 0 Main entrance stairs or refurbishment. Great Russell Street Café Level 3 66

6161 62 63 64 65 Americas Ancient Greece Asia Themes North America and Rome China and South Asia Assyrian sculpture and Enlightenment West 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 East stairs J Room st26airs Early Greece The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery Balawat Room 1 Down to Down to Room 6 Room 33 Room 6 Members’ Great Court Restaurant I Mexico Collecting the world Room Members’ Room on Room 27 India: Amaravati Assyria: Nimrud Room 2 73 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 52 Greece: Minoans and via lift The Asahi Shimbun Gallery 7–8 Mycenaeans The 35 Room 33a The Arthur I Fleischman Gallery Assyria: Nineveh Funded by The Rothschild Level 1 Level 1 Ancient Room 12 Chinese jade Room 9 72 51 Egyptian sculpture The Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne Room 2a Room 4 Greece 1050–520 BC Assyria: Lion hunts, Siege Gallery Room 13 of Lachish and Khorsabad Living and Dying Room 33b 71 50 Greek vases Room 10 The Wellcome Trust Gallery Room 14 Korea Room 24 The Korea Foundation Gallery Athens and Room 67 Exhibitions K Room 15 Special exhibitions Chinese ceramics – Members The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery 70 49 Greece: Bassai sculptures Sir Percival David Collection Members’ Room Room 30 Room 16* The Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for This room is exclusively available Coffee Ceramic Studies Free displays to Members, providing the perfect Lounge Room 95 The Asahi Shimbun Displays setting in which to relax in front Level 3 Room 17 Room 3 of spectacular views of the Great 43a South H Greece: Parthenon Court. Facilities include free WiFi 69a 69 stairs 36 40 41 42 Room 18 and a café serving hot and cold food. Access is via Rooms 4 or 29a 43 68 37 38 39 Greece: Athens and the West stairs and lift. Room 19 * Up to 69 mezzanine 47 46 Greeks and Lycians 400–325 BC Room 20 * Level 3 48 Greek vases Room 20a* Mausoleum of Halikarnassos Room 21 The world of Alexander Room 22 *Ask at the Information Desk in the Great Court for opening times of Greek and Roman sculpture Rooms 16, 19, 20 and 20a. Room 23 © 2019 The Trustees of the

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H The , Room 40 The most famous chess set in the world Baby feeding

I Astrolabe, Room 42 Up to 94 A spectacular scientific instrument from Please note that some Level 4 91a 91 90 90a Shop the Islamic world galleries may be closed at short notice due to North Levels unforeseen circumstances J , Room 52 3 & 4 stairs or refurbishment. Great Court Restaurant Fabulous metalwork from ancient Iran Level 3 66 K The , Room 70 Café The Roman inspiration for Wedgwood 6161 62 63 64 65 Information Desk West 57 56 55 54 East stairs 59 58 53 stairs Down to Down to Members’ Great Court Restaurant J Room Members’ Tickets & Membership Desk Room on 73 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 52 via lift 35 F Families Desk (weekends and school holidays only) Level 1 Level 1 72 51 Cloakroom

71 50 Audio guide

Down to 91 Level 5 94 93 92 K Stairs 70 49 North stairs Level 5 Coffee Lift Lounge Level 3 43a Level access lift H 69a 69 South 36 40 41 42 stairs I 43 68 37 38 39 Up to 94 Up to 69 mezzanine Please note that some 47 46 Level 4 91a 91 90 90a galleries may be closed at short notice due to North Levels unforeseen circumstances 48 3 & 4 Level 3 stairs or refurbishment. Level 3 66

6161 62 63 64 65 Ancient Greece Asia Middle East Exhibitions Egyptian life and death and Rome Painting and calligraphy The Islamic world Special exhibitions West 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 East stairs J The Michaelstairs Cohen Gallery Greek and Roman life Room 91a The Albukhary Foundation Gallery The Joseph Hotung Great Court Down to Down to Room 61 Room 69 Rooms 42–43 Gallery Members’ Great Court Restaurant I Japan Room Members’ Room 35 Room on Egyptian death and afterlife: The Mitsubishi Corporation Ancient Iran 73 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 52 Roman Empire via lift mummies The Wolfson Gallery Galleries The Rahim Irvani Gallery Prints and drawings

35 The Roxie Walker Galleries Room 70 Rooms 92–94 Room 52 Rooms 90 and 90a Level 1 Level 1 Rooms 62–63 72 51 Etruscan world Ancient South Arabia Free displays Early Egypt Room 71 Europe The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Rooms 43a, 69a and 91 The Raymond and Gallery Medieval Europe 1050–1500 Beverly Sackler Gallery Ancient Cyprus Room 53 The Sir Paul and 71 50 Room 64 The A. G. Leventis Gallery Themes Lady Ruddock Gallery and Urartu 7000–300 Room 72 Clocks and watches Sudan, Egypt and Nubia Room 40 BC The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly The Raymond and Greeks in Italy The Raymond and Beverly Sackler and Europe Gallery K Beverly Sackler Gallery Room 73 Gallery AD 300–1100 Rooms 38–39 Room 65 Room 54 70 49 The Sir Paul and Money Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt Lady Ruddock Gallery Mesopotamia 1500–539 BC Room 68 Coffee Room 66 Room 41 The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lounge Gallery Level 3 Europe 1400–1800 Room 55 43a Room 46 H Members 69a 69 South 36 40 41 42 Mesopotamia stairs Europe 1800–1900 Members’ Room 6000–1500 BC This room is exclusively available 43 Room 47 68 37 38 39 The Raymond and Beverly Sackler to Members, providing the perfect Up to 69 mezzanine Europe 1900 to the present Gallery setting in which to relax in front 46 47 Room 48 Room 56 of spectacular views of the Great Roman Britain Ancient Levant Court. Facilities include free WiFi and a café serving hot and cold Level 3 48 The Weston Gallery The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Room 49 Galleries food. Access is via Rooms 4 or 29a Rooms 57–59 and the West stairs and lift. Britain and Europe 800 BC–AD 43 Room 50 Europe and Middle East 10,000–800 BC The Sheikh Zayed Bin Al Nahyan Gallery Room 51 © 2019 The Trustees of the British Museum

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Up to 21 Level -1 Level -2 Information Desk

Up to 24 78 West Levelst -2airs 25 Tickets & Membership Desk 77 25 25 80 79 L Level -1 Level -2 Level -2 F Families Desk (weekends and school holidays only)

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Down to 91 Level 5 94 93 92 Stairs The Clore Centre for Education North stairs Level 5 Lift

Up to Level Up to Great Court -1 & -2 Great Court Level access lift Level -1 Level -1 Level -1 Ford Centre for Young Visitors

Up to 94 Please note that some Level 4 91a 91 90 90a galleries may be closed at short notice due to North Levels unforeseen circumstances 3 & 4 stairs or refurbishment. Level 3 66

6161 62 63 64 65 Africa The Clore Centre Ford Centre for Young Africa for Education Visitors West 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 East stairs J The Sainsburystairs Galleries Hugh and Catherine At weekends and during school Down to Down to Room 25 Stevenson Lecture Theatre holidays, families are welcome to Members’ Great Court Restaurant I Room Members’ Room on picnic in the Ford Centre for Young 73 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 52 Claus Moser Room via lift Visitors. 35 BP Lecture Theatre Free, just drop in.

Level 1 Level 1 72 51 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Rooms 71 50 Samsung Digital Discovery Centre

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Coffee Lounge Level 3 43a South H 69a 69 stairs 36 40 41 42 43 68 37 38 39 Up to 69 mezzanine 47 46

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