I love some of the reasons given for not going to a specific museum. They remind me of the person who once read a book and hasn't since needed to read another. Same person probably saw a painting too.

The British Museum, 250th anniversary this year, is a storehouse of some of man's greatest achievements and it begins when you enter the vast space that surrounds the reading room of the former British Library. Here is where Karl Marx did his research and wrote Das Kapital. To the left a few galleries away is the Duveen Gallery housing the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon. On the way you pass through the galleries celebrating the Egyptian and Assyrian cultures. And somewhere there are the Lewis Chessmen. Well, you get the idea.

And to finish your visit, cross Great Russell Street to the Museum Tavern on the corner and have a beer in the same pub that Marx visited and toast to the free world.