Queen Elizabeth II Great Court
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, is the covered central quadrangle of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster and Partners, from a 1970s design by Colin St John Wilson. The court was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
View of the Great Court from the second floor of the southern wing.
East Portico of Sir Robert Smirke's building; Roman equestrian statue visible in the foreground
Hoa Hakananai'a
The Reading Room and Great Court roof as viewed from ground level.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
Aerial view of the British Museum
The Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room.
Sir Hans Sloane
Montagu House, c. 1715