British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of British history and the domain of the Brujah elder Gwenllian Arwyn in London. During Operation Antigen, the elder was trapped inside by agents of the Second Inquisition.
Description
The British Museum sits in the Bloomsbury area of London. A public institution dedicated to human history, art, and culture, it hosts both permanent and temporary exhibitions. The British Museum also funds educational programs and archaeological field research. The British Museum is a tourist staple, consistently making the list of Top Ten Places to Visit in London -- or even the Top Three. Cultural activists have recently honed in on the British Museum, however, questioning its long history of looting artifacts from other cultures. The Parthenon Marbles are a special source of contention since Greece's bankruptcy, as returning the statues to Greece -- or even leasing them at a proper rate – could bolster the Greek economy.
Mortal Activities: The museum hosts an evening for Friends of the British Museum, from small donors to the London elite. The party is black tie and the kine dresses in their finery, but the Museum's stable of small donors and working aficionados stops the event from being overly posh. Several rooms see professors giving lectures, with the main draw being a discussion panel about saving archaeological artifacts and sites in the currently war-torn Middle East. Guides take small groups of mortals into the British Museum to visit the various exhibits.
Dominant Vampire: Queen Anne declared the British Museum a neutral space, though she allowed Regina Blake to host Elysium here. Behind the scenes, however, agents of Gwenllian Arwyn control the British Museum.
Kindred Activities: The British Museum previously served as Elysium, but attention from Operation Antigen sees it empty of Kindred save Gwenllian Arwyn, who remains as the museum still hosts Mithras' Phrygian Cap in its Roman Empire exhibit. Arwyn cannot remove the cap without drawing undue attention, nor does she have a quick means of escape. She uses Earth Meld to sleep in the floor in the Roman Britain exhibit, feeding on the occasional night janitor or professor working late.
Notable Features: Operation Antigen caught on to vampire activity in the Museum, though not yet on Arwyn personally. They erected a discreet siege around the building, performing heat scans on anyone leaving or entering. The agents tag and track anyone not clearly human, working with London police to arrest them for "questioning."'