Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth Many of the early Fellows

Many of the early Fellows

Mrs Shirley showing the Queen the Warping machine

He is shown on the famous occasion when he demonstrated to flattering courtiers that God alone can command the tides

Everton players Andy Gray

Two men attack a turtle with a sword and a mace

Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth Many of the early FellowsMontagu House, Bloomsbury, 18th century, (1908). The house was purchased in 1754 as the first home of the British Museum and in 1757 the gardens were opened to the public, two years before visitors were admitted to the Museum's collections. The seventeenth century building was gradually replaced by the present Museum buildings between 1823 and 1852.