Private Guided Tour of the British Museum - Tickets Included
Description
Forget about big groups of strangers or running after a guide with a tight schedule leading a big group. Treat your family, your friends, your partner or just yourself with this PRIVATE tour. No strangers will be part of the group, only you and whoever is travelling with you. In two hours you will visit the most important artifacts and lesser know objects. In this private tour you will be able to learn about many different civilizations in the humanity's history at your own pace, without having to follow a large group. The guide will be friendly, professional and will customize the tour according to the group needs, for example in case of couples or families with kids adapting the approach. The British Museum is huge but in 2 hours you will have an overview of the most significant objects like, but not limited to, the Rosetta Stone, Ramses II, Double headed serpent, Parthenon Marbles, the Moai from Easter Island, Lewis Chessmen, the Waddesdon Bequest and the Assyrian Lamassu.
Tour Options
Itinerary
I will meet you at Montague Pl, the north entrance of the museum. We will then enter and I will guide you for the next two hours around the museum where I will show the most important artifacts.
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(226)
Excellent guide with remarkable knowledge and insight. Really enjoyed the experience. We would have been lost without it.
Vanessa was an excellent and knowledgeable tour guide. We learned a lot and it was our best British Museum tour yet!
Big Place. Lots to see. There can be a crowds so give yourself plenty of time to see everything. There are food and drink options but expensive.
LOVED this tour! Damiano, our tour guide, was fantastic. He read our group of four perfectly and tailored the experience to us. He was also passionate and knowledgeable about culture and history and I would highly recommend him. Overall a wonderful experience.
Pedro did an excellent job for us on this tour. It was our first time to tour the Museum, and it would have been quite overwhelming without some structure. We had a great "highlights" expert tour, and then were able to walk around on our own afterwards to revisit some areas of interest. Highly recommend.
We arrived at the British Museum and met the company's coordinator. It appeared that he was going to give a tour, and two other employees were going to give tours that same morning. One of the tour guides was there when we arrived, and she engaged our young son in remarkable ways. However, she was assigned to another gentleman, and when that gentleman arrived, they left for their tour. Our guide was 10 minutes late, and although he was a pleasant person, it didn't seem like he had been informed about the pre-tour communications our family had with the tour operator. Namely, we wanted a tour of the highlights and would be with our five-year-old son. My partner and I are educators, so we were able to help the tour guide engage our child, but it was clearly not the guide's strength (versus the tour guide we had met earlier that morning). Further, it was clear that the tour guide had not been informed that we wanted to see highlights. He spent more time than expected in a single gallery look at church items, which limited our time to see other galleries in the museum. When we asked him to speed things up a bit and move onto other portions of the museum that a) we wanted to see and b) would engage our son, he was responsive to our feedback. Further, it didn't seem like he had spent much time in the museum, and he acknowledged he had only been a guide for 2 months. Again, he was generous with his time (and was willing to go over the specified duration), but his navigation of the museum could have been approved with pre-planning or experience.
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I'm sorry to hear that your experience didn't fully meet your expectations. I'd like to clarify one important factual point for future guests. We did not receive any pre-tour communications requesting a customised itinerary or specific galleries to prioritise. Our guide therefore began with our standard British Museum Highlights tour, exactly as advertised. As soon as you mentioned that you would prefer to move more quickly through certain sections, he immediately adapted the tour to your preferences. Regarding the short delay at the meeting point, unfortunately London's public transport can occasionally be unpredictable despite our guides allowing plenty of travel time. To ensure you received the full experience, your guide extended the tour beyond its scheduled duration at no additional cost. We genuinely appreciate all guest feedback and continuously use it to improve our tours. While we respect that experiences can differ from one guest to another, we also believe it is important to clarify the factual details of a visit for the benefit of future travellers.
Entertaining history and stories with Sophie Prior to Beefeater intro and opening ceremony. Worth the early arrival time. Beat the crowds to view Crown Jewels.
Very knowledgeable. Enjoyed it. Thank you very much. The museum was fabulous. Running out of things to say
Damiano is a guarantee, friendly, professional, and very well-prepared!
Stefania is a highly knowledgeable and generous guide. We had to pause briefly for a break, so she kindly added that time onto the end of the tour, although she could’ve ended it at the designated time. Her background is in art history, so we highly recommend her, especially for tours of the British Museum or similar.
