London British Museum Audio Tour

Explore the British Museum at your own pace with a self-guided audio tour through galleries that span nearly every era of human history. This London British Museum Audio Tour begins in the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, where a dramatic glass roof shelters the museum’s central atrium.

Follow the route from the Enlightenment Gallery, where the museum’s beginnings are linked to an Irish physician’s collection of 71,000 objects, to displays from Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anglo-Saxon England, and Classical Greece. Along the way, encounter Henutmehyt, a wealthy Egyptian priestess whose burial included food for the afterlife, and discover connections between objects from different places and periods. The tour concludes in the Parthenon Galleries, among sculptures removed from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin and still at the heart of a major debate.

Download the app before you arrive to access audio, maps, and geodata offline, then explore at a pace that suits you. Let the London British Museum Audio Tour guide you through remarkable collections and stories, from the Great Court to the Parthenon sculptures.