British Museum

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The British Museum

"The Public are admitted to the British Museum on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, between the hours of 10 and 4, from the 7th September to the 1st of May and between the hours of 10 and 7, from the 7th May to the 1st of September, and daily during the weeks of Easter, Whitsuntide, and Christmas, except Saturdays."

(A list of exibits may be found here.)

Artists are admitted to study in the Galleries of Sculpture, between the hours of 9 and 4, every day, except Saturday.
The Museum is closed from the 1st to the 7th of January, the 1st to the 7th of May, and the 1st to the 7th of September, inclusive, on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Christmas Day, and also on any special fast or thanksgiving day, ordered by Authority.
The Print Room is closed on Saturdays.
The contents of the Medal and Print Rooms can be seen only be very few persons at a time, and by particular permission."

"A very useful little book has been published, called, How to see the British Museum in Four Visits. Its success has induced the dauntless writer to undertake another guide—one for the accomplishment of a far more difficult feat. It is to be entitled, How to find a Book in the Catalogue in Four Hours. The promise is bold, and we suspend our judgement. The feat has never yet been performed; but this is the age of progress, even at the British Museum."

Punch 1852

The Reading Room

"The Reading Room of the Museum is open every day, except of Sundays, on Ash-Wednesday, Good-Friday, Christmas-day, and on any fast or thanksgiving days, ordered by authority: except also between the 1st and 7th of January, the 1st and 7th of May, and the 1st and 7th of September, inclusive. The hours are from 9 till 7 during May, June, July, and August; and from 9 till 4 during the rest of the year."