Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth 'Fafner in his Cave'

'Fafner in his Cave'

Two men attack a turtle with a sword and a mace

the first line of the Lodon Underground

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

Portrait of the author Anton Chekhov'

Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth 'Fafner in his Cave'Montagu 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.