British Museum will trial removing the orderly queue at the main Great Russell Street entrance, allowing visitors to wait in an open space outside the security tent where bags will be inspected. Visitors will still pass through security; members will retain the ability to bypass crowds and enter ahead of others inside the tent. The change applies only to the ticket-holder entrance; non-ticketed visitors will be directed to the Montague Road entrance where traditional queuing remains. The experiment runs from 17th to 23rd September. The trial precedes planned replacement of temporary security tents with a more architecturally fitting entrance structure.
The British Museum is about to do something extremely unBritish - they're abolishing queues at the main entrance. You'll still need to go through the security tent, but rather than filing people into a neat orderly, and most importantly, very British queue through the security tent, people will be able to crowd up in an open space outside waiting to in and have their bags inspected.
We may like queuing, but not that much, so naturally, museum members will still keep the queue-jump option once inside the tent and be able to smugly walk past everyone else. The museum says it's a trial ahead of the plans to replace the supposedly temporary security tents with something more architecturally fitting for the museum entrance. The trial is only at the main Great Russell Street entrance, which is the one used by people with tickets to the museum.
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