British Museum VIP Private Access: Alone with the Rosetta Stone

Our special VIP tour allows for a truly rare experience; alone time with one of the most famous objects in the British Museum - the Rosetta Stone. In fact, your guide holds the key to the room housing some of the museum’s most iconic pieces, and it will be opened just for you, before the crowds get a chance to make their way inside.

An early start means you’ll meet your Walks guide before the museum even opens, when you will be issued with special security passes to enter. Enjoy a brief introduction to the historic building before heading inside to experience something only few patrons are privileged with: a still and undisturbed British Museum which is not yet officially opened to the public.

Inside, your guide will unlock the door to a collection of Ancient Egyptian treasures, where you will enjoy a private viewing of the magnificent Rosetta Stone and Ramesses II - with excellent insights from your expert guide who not only holds the key to the room, but to the secrets and stories behind the artifacts too.

As the public now begins to trickle in to the building, our tour is onto a still-quiet Ancient Greece to see the Parthenon Marbles and the stirring Lely’s Venus. From there we’ll take in the fascinating pieces that make up the Egyptian Life, Death and Afterlife, with a mummy of a cat and the Gebelein Man (aka ‘Ginger’) being two of the most captivating relics within the collection for you to discover.

In China and Southeast Asia we’ll meet the spellbinding Bronze Statue of Tara and learn all about the ornate ceramic tiles of the Ming Dynasty before finally finishing up with Hoa Hakananai'a of the iconic Easter Island moai, whom has been beautifully preserved by the British Museum.

This special tour of the British Museum is truly a once-in-a-lifetime way to experience one of the world’s most impressive collections of human history, art and culture.