London Day 3 by Gordon, Buckingham Palace, British Museum, King Cross Station

London Day 3 by Gordon, Buckingham Palace, British Museum, King Cross Station

~ Gordon

Buckingham Palace

Royal News; guard changing ceremony at Buckingham

Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace

crowds waiting for the guard changing ceremony

The entrance to the British Museum

Rosetta Stone, British Museum

    London Day 3 was really awesome with famous arches and museums. While we had an amazing time, we visited where the royal family lives! It was really sad that you can't go in there but there was an amazing guard changing ceremony going on! 

Arc at Hyde Park corner

Arc at Hyde Park corner

Hyde Park

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

At the entrance of
Buckingham Palace

At the entrance of
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

closer look at Buckingham Palace

closer look at Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Victoria Memorial

in front of Buckingham Palace

Victoria Memorial

in front of Buckingham Palace

Victoria Memorial

in front of Buckingham Palace

Victoria Memorial

in front of Buckingham Palace

Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace

Victoria Memorial and
Buckingham Palace

     Built in 1703, the Buckingham palace was hosting royal families. King George III bought it and changed it in 1761. That was the Buckingham House, not  yet to become the Buckingham Palace. In the 1800s, when Victoria was queen, Bucking House became a palace! From then on, it houses Royal families. The changing guard happens to be on Saturdays, at the time of 11:00 am. We saw it and they were very serious. It must have been very important because it was just so crowded! The guards were plentiful there, as I counted that there was 20 guards! There was some on horses!

Guard at Buckingham Palace

Guard at Buckingham Palace

Guard at Buckingham Palace

Buckingham guards on horse

Buckingham guard changing ceremony

Buckingham Palace

Guard at Buckingham

A gate at St James Park, a royal garden

St James Park

St James Park

     Established in 1602, St James Park is near  Buckingham Palace , the Mall, Horse Guards, and Birdcage Walk . It intersects Green Park at the Queens Garden with the Victoria Memorial at its center. The best thing about St James Park is that you might wave to the queen of England at this royal garden, if you are lucky enough. The tulips there are just so sweet. The darker the color is, the rarer and expensive it is. The garden was pretty with tons of colors.

British Museum

British Museum

British Museum

Inside of British Museum

Glass top of

British Museum

     We went to a museum called the Great British Museum. The first time you see it, you might think it is a temple. That's wrong, because on the inside, it's a regular museum that has so many exhibits and all of them are just so cool . There are exhibits about almost everything, like America's Space crafts, or chinaware. It was so fun exploring. Read on and find out about the best. This is the best museum of the world. The Parthenon Sculptures are the most popular in this museum. Almost all of the majority sculptors from the temple was took and placed in the museum.

Rosetta Stone, 196 BC

Rosetta Stone, 196 BC

Top part of Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone

The back of Rosetta Stone
196 BC

     The Rosetta Stone was really famous, as it was describing many things. It may look like a big 3 paragraph writing, but scientists have discovered that they are the same, written in 3 different languages. It was built in the 196 BC, but was discovered only in 1799! In the 1900s, the Rosetta Stone was so popular that there was a 2-hour line just to look at it. You could touch it, but it would cost about nowadays 15 pounds! It is a code to learning the Native Egyptian Language. The three languages were normal everyday writing in Egyptian hieroglyphs on the top, the language of the native Egyptian Government in the middle, the  Greek language at the bottom.

The sculptures of the Parthenon
447-438 BC

The sculptures of the Parthenon

The sculptures of the Parthenon

The sculptures of the Parthenon

The sculptures of the Parthenon

Horse of Selene
The head of a horse from the
chariot of moon-goddess Selene
a sculpture from the Parthenon

A piece of a sculpture
of the Parthenon

     The Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens was constructed between 447 and 438 BC and was dedicated to Athens in Greece, patron goddess of the city; it housed a colossal gold and ivory statue richly decorated with sculptures representing scenes from mythology and cult. Some of the important sculptures are at Louvre in Paris, but most are here in the Great Britain. The sculptures were from a really high place on the temple. What do you think they used? Did they use a hammer? There was so many plates, I was starting to wonder if they used machines! There was about 50 of them on display. I wonder if there were left overs in Athens!

Ancient Acropolis Temple

Greece Parthenon

British Museum

Exploring Ancient Egypt collections at British Museum

Stela of Simontu
12th dynasty, year 3 of the reign of Amenemhat II
about 1919 BC
from Abydos, Limestone

A false door and architrave
of Ptahshepses
5th Dynasty,
about 2400 BC

A Greek temple

Colossal guardian lion
Assyrian, about 865-860 BC
Temple of
Ishtar Sharrat-niphi

Khorsabad, The Palace of Sargon
This area mainly contains sculptures
from the city and palace of Khorsabad
built for the Assyrian king Sargon II
721-705 BC
The pair of human-headed winged bulls
were guardians against misfortune

A human-headed winged bull
guardian against misfortune

Basalt statue
known as Hoa Hakananala
Living & Dying
AD 1000-1200
Chile, South Pacific

Turquoise mosaic of
a double-headed serpent
Mexico Aztec, AD 1400-1521

Stone Rattlesnake
Aztec, AD 1300-1520

Coffins of the priest Hornedjitef

The Gayer-Anderson Cat
Bronze with silver plaque
and gold jewelry
about 600 BC from Saqqara

King Ramesses II
This is the upper part of a colossal
seated statue, one of
a pair flanking the entrance to
the hypostyle hall in the king's
mortuary temple (the Ramesseum)

King Ramesses II

     There are also many other exhibits including space and also things about statues, such as Easter island statue. The Easter Island Statue is not hard to find, and especially close to a Mexico double headed serpent, which was made from green gems. The Serpent has many colors, and it was also really shiny. The Easter island statue reminded us of a really silly movie, Night at the Museum. My mom called it dum-dum thanks to the movie!

St Pancras Hotel is linked to St Pancras train station

St Pancras Hotel

St Pancras Hotel

St Pancras Hotel linked to
St Pancras train station

St Pancras train station
with its glass roof top

St Pancras train station
with its glass roof top
See the high speed train behind us?
It's the Eurostar train,
which will take us to Paris!

St. Pancras Eurostar Train Terminal

King Cross Station at night

King Cross station

Inside of King Cross station

Platform 9 3/4 at King Cross station

The Harry Potter Shop

at Platform 9 3/4

The Harry Potter Shop

at Platform 9 3/4

The Harry Potter Shop

at Platform 9 3/4

The Harry Potter Shop

at Platform 9 3/4

The Harry Potter Shop

at Platform 9 3/4

A street corner

of King Cross station

     King Cross Station can be really magical, as you find the 9 3/4 platform. Because Harry Potter was so famous, they built a little part of a wall where it simulates Harry Potter crashing into the wall to go to Hogwarts Express. Just that you are Harry Potter! You have a wand and a scarf, and it's a wand of your choice!

     Train Stations can be so busy! Museums can be just everywhere! The Rosetta Stone is just so historical. Anything can have an amazing timeline as the Rosetta Stones is the best for the longest. Many palaces have over hundreds of year's history. My day 3 in London was super!

British Library and St Pancras Hotel

British Library