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title: "British museum collection"  
description: "A brief explanation of the British Museum collection and its facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-10  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2825/british-museum-collection  
category: "education, history"  
tags: ["British museum collection", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# British museum collection

![British museum collection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f7b09b39-9279-49eb-8e53-29519f8ea1be/images/65a51753-05e4-4c67-9128-bcd25bf78272.jpeg) ![British museum collection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f7b09b39-9279-49eb-8e53-29519f8ea1be/images/ef3e292f-1930-4008-a4a0-a889d6a770f5.jpeg) The British Museum's collection includes about 8 million artefacts from all around the world, dating back two million years. ![British museum collection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f7b09b39-9279-49eb-8e53-29519f8ea1be/images/e5e7fef1-0a8f-4c09-8cc4-a12004fd0b7d.jpeg) It is located at Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom. ![British museum collection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f7b09b39-9279-49eb-8e53-29519f8ea1be/images/40386975-07b2-4071-b434-b571d625fe12.jpeg) The museum's oldest item is a 1.7 million-year-old stone hand axe from Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge. ![British museum collection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f7b09b39-9279-49eb-8e53-29519f8ea1be/images/3faf9477-7f49-4617-98a3-748ff714c098.jpeg) The Hoa Hakananai'a statue from Easter Island, which weighs more than 20 tonnes, is the museum's largest artefact. ![British museum collection](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f7b09b39-9279-49eb-8e53-29519f8ea1be/images/a29994cb-eb85-43b6-9cbd-b55566dbb5cc.jpeg) British Museum is dedicated to sharing its collection with the public and lends objects to museums and galleries all across the world.

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