British Museum

American  

noun

1. a national depository and museum in London, England, housing important collections in archaeology, art, and natural history.

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British Museum British  

noun

1. a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library

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Example Sentences

He had revered the British Museum since he was a teenager and was incensed by the idea that a theft was continuing and that it was being perpetrated by a curator.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

And a Peter Higgs, he soon learned, was a longtime curator at the British Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

He fell in love with the British Museum as an 18-year old, when he moved to the UK after finishing school.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

I got to know Ittai well because, after the initial story broke, we made a podcast for BBC Radio 4 called Thief at the British Museum alongside a film for BBC Two and iPlayer.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

She walked through the halls of the British Museum for a couple of hours, learning the names of paintings and drinking a series of Diet Cokes from small bottles.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart