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

Shortly before Gradel died April 28 at the age of 61, the museum presented him with its British Museum medal in appreciation for his efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

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 was of course also proud of his role in the British Museum case.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

In 1856 he became head of the natural history section of the British Museum, in which capacity he became the driving force behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson