This month marks ten years since the British Museum’s Round Reading Room was closed to visitors. One of the most awe-inspiring architectural spaces in the capital, it now remains a distant ...

The British Museum’s vast and imposing Round Reading Room has reopened this week to all visitors after being closed for the past 11 years. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 ...

Opened by the late Queen in 2000, the Great Court of the British Museum ... The domed Reading Room first opened on May 2, 1857, designed by architect Sydney Smirke (another of whose famous domes sits ...

One of the most striking things about visiting the British Museum (apart from all the spooky bandaged mummies and looted colonial artefacts, of course) is the moment when you exit the galleries ...

(Photo feature by: Nussaiba bin Shaiba) LONDON, Sept 16 (KUNA) -- The Reading Room in the British Museum is one of its iconic spaces, historically renowned as a place of study and intellectual ...