ACCOUNTS ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. d 



The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments 

 o£ Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books 

 and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian 

 Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British and Mediaeval 

 Antiquities and Ethnography, and Coins and Medals) is normally 

 open to the public free daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas 

 Day and days o£ Public Fast or Thanksgiving). 



At present, however, the Print Department and the galleries 

 o£ the Egyptian and Assyrian Department on the upper floor, 

 being still in the occupation of the Registry of Friendly Societies, 

 to which they were lent during the war, are closed to the public. 

 The remainder of the Museum, excepting King Edward VII. 's 

 Galleries, is open to the public daily on week-days from 10 a.m. 

 to 6 p.m., from April to August inclusive. After 4 p.m! in 

 January, February, November, and December, and after 5 p.m. 

 in March, September, and October, only certain of the galleries 

 remain open. 



Sunday opening of the Exhibition Galleries has not yet been 

 resumed. 



The Reading Room is open to Students from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 

 the Newspaper Room and Manuscript Students' Room from 10 a.m. 

 to 5 p.m., on every weekday except Good Friday, Christmas Day, 

 and the first four weekdays in March and September. 



British Museum, | F7'ederic G. Keni/on, 



10th June 1919. j Director and Principal Librarian. 



