The British Museum (British Museum; aka: National Museum of Great Britain, British Museum) is the world's oldest and grandest museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States and the Louvre in France are known as the world's three largest museums. The British Museum was founded in 1753 and opened to the public on January 15, 1759. The museum's collection of treasures mainly from the British plundered from the 18th to 19th century wars, the main victims of Greece, Egypt and China and so on.