Reading Room to reopen to public

The British Museum has unveiled plans to bring its world famous Reading Room “to life again”.

The round Reading Room, where Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned many works, has been closed in recent years.

British Museum director Hartwig Fischer said he wanted the space – which was hailed as one of the great sights of London when it was completed in 1857 – to become an “intimate part” of visitors’ experience.