ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 9 



The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments 

 of 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 open free 

 to the public on week-days (except on Good Friday and Christmas 

 Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving) from 10 a.m. to 

 6 p ni. 



But after 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December, and 

 after 5 p.m. in March and October, some only of the Galleries 

 remain open, viz. : — 



'Exhibitions of Manuscripts and Printed Books ; 



Prehistoric, British, Anglo-Saxon, Oriental, 



Religious and Ethnographical Collections ; 



Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms ; 



Assyrian and Babylonian Rooms ; Glass, China, 

 . and Mediaeval Collections. 



Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman Collec- 

 tions ; Prehistoric, Terra-cotta, Gold Ornament, 

 Greek and Roman Life, Bronze and Vase 

 Rooms ; Mummy Rooms ; Prints and Drawings 

 Exhibition Gallery. 



On Mondays, 

 Wednesdays, 



and 

 Fridays. 



On Tuesdays, 

 Thursdays, 



and 

 Saturdays. 



The Museum is open also on Sunday afternoons — 



From 2 to 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December. 

 „ 2 to 5 p.m. in March and October. 

 „ 2 to 6 p.m. April to September, inclusive. 



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 week-day except Good Friday, Christmas Day, and 

 the first four week-days in March and September. 



British Museum, \ 

 1st April, 1921. / 



Frederic G. Kenyan, 

 Director and Principal Librarian 



