Map of London Bloomsbury Area

Bloomsbury is the area east of Tottenham Court Road, north of new Oxford Street, west of Southampton Row, and south of Euston Road.

This is an area of Georgian squares punctuated by the grand buildings of the university and museums. In summer the squares are filled with students and office workers alike.

It the the home of University College London, Birkbeck College, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the London School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and many of the central buildings of the University of London, including Senate House, which was used as "the Ministry" in the film version of George Orwell's "1984" .

Bloomsbury is also the home of the British Museum, which it's astounding collections of Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Oriental and Western Asian exhibits, in addition to its medieval British collections.

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