The British Museum, (locate) in the Bloomsbury area of London, is the first national public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, making one of the largest in existence. It has been (wide) sourced, and documenting the story of human culture its beginnings to the present. As with all other national museums in United Kingdom, it charges no admission fee. Its ownership of some of its most famous objects originally came from other countries is controversial, particularly in the case of the Parthenon Marbles. Today the museum no longer houses (collection) of natural history, and the books and manuscripts (手稿) once it (hold) now form part of the independent British Library, it still keeps its universality in collections of artificial works (represent) the cultures of the world, ancient and modern.
