Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth Many of the early Fellows

Many of the early Fellows

with figures and horse drawn cart on the street

Two men attack a turtle with a sword and a mace

A man at the wheel of his car dressed in a driving coat and goggles

Everton players Andy Gray

Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth Many of the early FellowsMontagu House, Bloomsbury, 18th century, (1908). The house was purchased in 1754 as the first home of the British Museum and in 1757 the gardens were opened to the public, two years before visitors were admitted to the Museum's collections. The seventeenth century building was gradually replaced by the present Museum buildings between 1823 and 1852.