ACCOUNTS ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 9^ 



The British Miisenm, 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 Mediseval 

 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 

 of the Egyptian and Assyrian Department on the upper floor, 

 having only been vacated by the Registr}^ of Friendly Societies, 

 to which they were lent during the war, at the end of March, 1920, 

 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 September inclusive. 

 After 4 p.m. in January, February, November, and December, and 

 after 5 p.m. in March, and October, only certain of the galleries 

 remain open. 



Sunday opening of the Exhibition Galleries will be resumed 

 in the course of 1920. 



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, \ Frederic G. Kenyon, 



1st April, 1920. J Director and Principal Librarian. 



