in London, the British Museum is not experiencing the crisis

With nearly six million admissions last year, the most famous British museum is full. It is even the most visited attraction in the United Kingdom.

Better than Stonehenge and Westminster Abbey, the British Museum is the most visited attraction in the United Kingdom. The British museum welcomed more than 5.8 million visitors last year. Although this figure has not yet reached pre-Covid levels, London’s most famous museum is full. In the never-empty aisles, people flock to admire the Rosetta Stone, Assyrian reliefs or Egyptian mummies, a journey through two million years of history.

Francis has been coming to this museum regularly since he was a child. This architect lives in Southampton and spends a few days off with his wife in the capital. Initially they had not planned to come to this museum. “We come here, we enjoy ourselves. For us, this place is very important”he confesses.

“Every time we go to London, we end up visiting the British Museum. There’s always something we haven’t seen yet. It’s huge, it’s beautiful.”

Francis, a visitor

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Entrance to the British Museum is free, only temporary exhibitions require a fee. This is also one of them, on 19th century China.^e century, which partly explains last year’s success. Lucy, a museum employee, never tires of the works or of those who come to see them. “Lots of people from different backgrounds meet at the museum. There are lots of profiles: those who rush towards a gallery or a particular statue, those who stroll, those who have a very specific path. This knowledge, this knowledge, must be disseminated as widely as possible.she believes.

In recent months, controversies have been the talk of the British Museum. The one in particular which pits the United Kingdom against Greece. Athens demands the return of the Parthenon friezes. Same thing for two Moaïs, these statues from Easter Island, which Chile would like to recover. The management has also been criticized by environmental groups for the funds it receives from the oil company BP. She is also singled out for the disappearance of more than a thousand ancient remains, some of which were stolen and sold online.