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London's Great Museums: The British Museum and South Kensington

London, England

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London's Great Museums: The British Museum and South Kensington

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The British Museum, founded in 1753, holds the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon sculptures. In South Kensington, a blue whale skeleton hangs in Hintze Hall in the Natural History Museum's Waterhouse building of 1881, the V&A's Cast Courts hold the two halves of Trajan's Column, and the Science Museum has the Apollo 10 command module and Puffing Billy, the oldest surviving steam locomotive.

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of 4

See the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum, founded in 1753

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of 4

Look up at the blue whale skeleton in Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum, in the Waterhouse building opened in 1881

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of 4

Find the two halves of Trajan's Column in the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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of 4

See the Apollo 10 command module and Puffing Billy, the oldest surviving steam locomotive, at the Science Museum

  • See the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum, founded in 1753

  • Look up at the blue whale skeleton in Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum, in the Waterhouse building opened in 1881

  • Find the two halves of Trajan's Column in the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum

  • See the Apollo 10 command module and Puffing Billy, the oldest surviving steam locomotive, at the Science Museum

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