![]() ![]() For the first time in more than 150 years, the new two-acre Great Court gave visitors the chance to move freely around the main floor of the Museum. ![]() On completion, the redesign grew the Museum by 40 per cent. The Great Court was opened on 6 December 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II. Work on the Great Court's magnificent glass and steel roof – made from 3,212 panes of glass (no two of which are the same) – began in September 1999. Loosely based on Norman Foster's concept for the roof of the Reichstag in Berlin, a key aspect of the design was that with every step in the Great Court the vista changed giving the visitor a new surrounding. The redesign of the Great Court allowed the previously hidden space to be seen once again, no longer lost to the general public. ![]()
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