A museum staff member presents a European statue to visitors at the National Museum of China in Beijing on March 8, 2017. [Photo/VCG]

The British Museum's highly-acclaimed exhibition, A History of the World in 100 Objects, has attracted numerous visitors since it opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing on March 1, 2017.

The exhibition narrates the development and diversities of global history through a selection of artifacts, artworks and other objects from the British Museum's encyclopedia collection.

It originally evolved from a broadcasting series which the London museum started in partnership with the BBC in 2010. The series included a 15-minute program introducing each one of 100 objects from the museum's collection that revealed the communication methods of various human cultures over the course of two million years.

Among the 100 sets of objects, there are stone tools dating back 20,000 to two million years ago, artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, cultural relics of Europe, the East and the Americas during the Middle Ages, and exhibits showing the cultures of different continents since modern times.

Chinese objects on display include a civil official figure discovered in a Tang Dynasty tomb dated from about AD 730 in Henan province and a ceramic amphora produced between AD 600 and 700.

The exhibition is not intended to show the differences between cultures but what they have in common.

The exhibition will run until May 31.