As a world-class cultural treasure, the British Museum has an amazing collection. Surprisingly, however, 23,000 of them belong to China cultural relics. This figure far exceeds the number of British cultural relics, and the number of British cultural relics accounts for less than 10% of the total collection, which is really surprising.

Britain used to be a powerful colonial empire with colonies all over the world. In these colonies, Britain stole a lot of cultural relics and artworks and shipped them back to China. As a result, these cultural relics that do not belong to Britain's own cultural heritage have become an important part of the collection of the British Museum, which also explains why the proportion of British cultural relics in the British Museum is so low.

Brief introduction of British Museum

The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England. The museum was established in 1753 and officially opened to the public on 1759 65438+ 10/5. It is the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world, and it is also one of the four largest and most famous museums in the world.

The museum collects many cultural relics and treasures from all over the world, as well as manuscripts of many great scientists. The richness and diversity of collections are rare in museums all over the world. The British Museum has more than 8 million collections. Due to space constraints, 99% of the collections are not on public display.

On August 18 and 10, the British Museum held a private ceremony to return eight items about 5,000 years ago to the Iraqi ambassador to Britain, Saleh Hussein Ali. On August 6, 2023, local time, the gold and jewels of the British Museum were stolen. These cultural relics span from15th century BC to19th century AD.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-British Museum