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British Museum London: Video and Audio Tour from Tips For Travellers. For more, visit my site at http://www.tipsfortravellers.com
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sometimes you forget about the treasures
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you have on your own doorstep and living
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in London it's so easy to do that this
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so much should do so much see and the
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most amazing treasures all over the
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British Museum is one such treasure hi
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I'm Gary Bembridge from tips for
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travellers that grow bull travel
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destination podcast it's been up to at
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least 15 years since I last went to the
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British Museum in London seeing it as
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the place that a tourist may visit and
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there was no need to swing by again how
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wrong I was we decided to have a
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cultural day out one Sunday and the
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British Museum came up as an option and
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what a great outing it ended up being
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the British Museum was founded right
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back in 1753 and is located in the
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centre of London not far from the
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bustling Oxford Street and with an easy
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walking distance of Tottenham Court tube
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Nicolle museums in the UK entry is free
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although they do encourage a donation of
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five pounds file donation boxes dotted
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around each entrance and throughout the
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museum now the museum is housed in a
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large and very impressive looking
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building with long columns but it's
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inside it there is a real wow factor the
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buildings are dramatic imposing and a
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startling mix of old and new effects
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there's a huge glass roof covering what
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must have been an open courtyard the
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museum buildings originally faced into
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there's a modern central structure and
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then as one explores you keep coming
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into massive and equally bold and/or
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inspiring halls and rooms the use of
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glass roofs and skylights makes the
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whole place bright and modern one thing
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that I found really interesting and
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really impressive
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other than the remarkable artifacts and
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displays was the mix of people the
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museum was jam-packed full the Sunday we
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went it is really quite incredible how
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many people the museum attracts and it's
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a credit to the
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the people behind the museum who have
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made it such an event in both structure
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and exhibits that they can pull so many
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people in the other thing that struck me
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was how many young people were actually
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there which is also impressive that
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they've managed to be so interesting and
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relevant to young people in fact the
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video tour that I made and is posted on
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YouTube and on the blog people
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spontaneously comment about how many
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young people are in the museum there are
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three major tractions that are the real
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draw for most people and on the real
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musculus for most people and the video
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tour I did covers this the Egyptian area
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which includes the famous rosetta stone
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and the various busts and statues from
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ancient Egypt in the area this is on the
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ground floor and the first stop for most
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people this is a bright and very
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impressive area the Elgin marbles which
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are the hotly disputed freezes taken
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from the Parthenon in Athens that the
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Greeks are hungry to have returned to
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their origin this is also on the first
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floor the huge chamber these are housed
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in dates from the 1930s and is very
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stunning and very impressive the third
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is the mummy section higher up in the
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museum with our caskets and mummies and
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this area is very popular and gets very
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packed there are also audio tours that
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one can hire to guide you through the
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museum and there are various immersion
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and eye-opening talks held in the
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different halls at different times
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during the day what's on the website
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they suggest various routes based on how
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much time you have and it's great
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because they have one hour two hours
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three hours cetera options now dotted
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around the museum are a couple of eating
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places with the most popular the ones in
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this very large very bright open
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courtyard when you enter there are a
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number of different shops on the ground
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floor some are selling just postcards so
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four and then a series of very
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inexpensive sort of memorabilia and then
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there's one that sells for example full
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sized resin statues for 10,000 pounds
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another very pricey replicas and gift
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I can as you can tell and was very
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impressed by the British Museum and had
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a really really good time it's an
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amazing day out it's very busy and as a
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great feel and there's so much to do and
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so much to see in fact I took zillions
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of photographs that I've posted on
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Flickr and you could visit my blog at
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tips for travelers comm and search for
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the British Museum either in the search
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bar or by looking down for UK articles
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attractions and features section and of
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course on YouTube you will also find
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video tour and the commentary remember
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to find out more you should also visit
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my blog at tips for Travis comm or sign
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UN's use a search for either gary
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Bembridge or tips for travelers so until
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next time happy travels
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