British Museum’s famous Reading Room is reopening for tours
Sitting in the centre of the British Museum is a huge Round Reading Room with a famously massive dome, and although long closed to the public, it will soon be open for guided tours.
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The museum ran some guided tours last year as a tester to see if it could work, as the room is now used for archive research, so walking in occasionally disturbs researchers.
Evidently, the test tours worked, as tours of the Reading Room will resume later this month and will be a regular event.
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