Editing Bloomsbury (section)

===Museums===
[[File:British Museum Great Court, London, UK - Diliff (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|The [[Queen Elizabeth II Great Court]]]]
The [[British Museum]], which first opened to the public in 1759 in [[Montagu House, Bloomsbury|Montagu House]], is at the heart of Bloomsbury. At the centre of the museum the space around the former [[British Library Reading Room]], which was filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library, is today the [[Queen Elizabeth II Great Court]], an indoor square with a glass roof designed by British architect [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]]. It houses displays, a cinema, a shop, a cafe and a restaurant. Since 1998, the British Library has been located in a purpose-built building just outside the northern edge of Bloomsbury, in Euston Road.

Also in Bloomsbury is the Foundling Museum, close to Brunswick Square, which tells the story of the [[Foundling Hospital]] opened by [[Thomas Coram]] for unwanted children in Georgian London. The hospital, now demolished except for the Georgian [[colonnade]], is today a playground and outdoor sports field for children, called [[Coram's Fields]]. It is also home to a small number of sheep. The nearby [[Lamb's Conduit Street]] is a pleasant thoroughfare with shops, cafes and restaurants.

The [[Dickens House|Dickens Museum]] is in [[Doughty Street]]. The [[Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology]] and the [[University College London#Special collections|Grant Museum of Zoology]] are at University College London in Gower Street.

The [[Postal Museum, London|Postal Museum]] is on 15-20 Phoenix Place.