英博物馆藏道教人物像大英博物馆藏元代鳜鱼图案青花瓷盘埃及罗塞塔碑（Rosetta Stone，拿破仑在埃及溃败后英国获得的一批埃及文物中最珍贵的一个，抢来的。
）雅典帕一农神庙的大理石雕刻（1816年通过割地赔款获得，希腊人目前要求归还，但英国人不还）法老阿孟霍普特三世头像（Amenhotep）（1823年购得）拉美西斯二世头像（Ramesses）（1818年由英国驻埃及总领事捐献，是割地赔款时拿的）弗兰克斯首饰盒（Franks）（1867年获得，是割地赔款时拿的）波特兰花瓶（Portland Vase）夏洛蒂·勃朗特留学比利时布鲁塞尔追求教授写的的情书，夏洛蒂·勃朗特当家教时追求有妇之夫的教授的情书。
夏洛蒂·勃朗特谩骂简奥斯丁的信笺原稿。
夏洛蒂·勃朗特在报纸上与众三流写手对骂的照片大英博物馆入场免费。
古埃及艺术品是大英博物馆最富盛名的收藏，其数量仅次于埃及博物馆，拥有大量精品，如著名的罗赛塔石碑、亚尼的死亡之书、拉美西斯二世胸像等，是古埃及艺术中最杰出的作品之一。
希腊罗马部的收藏是另一个亮点。
来自于雅典帕特农神庙的命运三女神雕像群、帕特农神庙建筑遗迹，均为大英博物馆最令人神往的艺术珍品。
大英博物馆里最引人注目的要数东方艺术文物馆。
该馆有来自中国、日本、印度及其他东南亚国家的文物十多万件。
其中，中国陈列室就占了好几个大厅，展品从商周的青铜器，到唐家的瓷器、明清的金玉制品。
仅来自中国的历代稀世珍宝就达2万多件，其中绝大多数为无价之宝。
如中国各朝代的绘画、刺绣，各个时期的出土文物、唐宋的书画、明清的瓷器等等，其中最名贵的为《文史箴图》、宋罗汉三彩像、敦煌经卷和宋、明名画。
商朝钢模为两只连体的绵羊，中间驮着一个圆形的楼盖，造型非常美观、精巧。
还有一只宋朝的瓷酒壶，底座和责周围是一朵荷花，壶盖上坐着一只狮子，更是难得的珍品。
博物馆后门的两只大石狮也是从中国运去的。
British MuseumThe British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects,are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin. Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor. History Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum Although principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a "universal museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753). During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable collection of curiosities and, not wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to King George II, for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000. At that time, Sloane’s collection consisted of around 71,000 objects of all kinds[8] including some 40,000 printed books, 7,000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas. Foundation (1753)On 7 June 1753, King George IIgave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.The Foundation Act, added two other libraries to the Sloane collection. The Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to Elizabethan times and the Harleian library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford. They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs. Together these four "foundation collections" included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf. The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything. Sloane's collection, whilst including a vast miscellany of objects, tended to reflect his scientific interests. The addition of the Cotton and Harley manuscripts introduced a literary and antiquarian element and meant that the British Museum now became both national museum and library.大英博物馆(British Museum)又称不列颠博物馆，是一位于英国伦敦的综合博物馆，也是世界上规模最大、最著名的博物馆之一，成立于1753年。