The Popular Museum in the UK

The British Museum:

British Museum

Approximately 6.7 million people visited the British Museum last year, making it the most popular

visitor attraction in the UK for the eighth year running. Some of its most world-famous artifacts include the Rosetta stone, Egyptian mummies and the controversial Elgin marbles. The much-loved museum has a set of at least 8 million objects with only 1% of the collection on display at any one time.

Natural History Museum: 

Natural History

The Natural History Museum attracted 5.3 million visitors in 2014, an increase of 1% on the before

year. The museum looks after more than 80 million different specimens on both sides of billions of years. Earlier this month, it announced its creating a "virtual dive" of the Great Wall Reef, which it says is like to Google Street View but on the sea floor.

Science Museum:

Science Museum

Casing everything from the searching of space to the transformation of global communications, the

Science Museum pulled in more than 3.3 million people last year. Later in 2015 a new library and research centre will open at the museum and in 2016 a gallery dedicated to mathematics, which will be housed in a space evocative of an aircraft wind tunnel, will open to bring the subject to life.

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum:

The Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington saw its guest numbers fall by 3% to 3.1

million in 2014. Its much-hyped and lately opened Alexander McQueen exhibition could help overturn that trend for 2015. Other special exhibitions slated for this year include a focus on luxury and an on both sides of of public life.