The Museum's permanent exhibits are devoted to the history and diversity of life on earth, and to the rocks and minerals from which it is formed.
The Museum was designed as a 'cathedral to science', and home to the University's scientific collections. It represents a spectacular example of neo-Gothic architecture and has an illustrious history. It played host to the famous evolutionary debate between Huxley and Wilberforce in 1860, and is now known for many famous features - the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, the dodo, Alice, and the swifts.
To find out more about the Museum's permanent exhibits, famous features, architecture and history, download one of the free leaflets listed below.
Displays of the main court
Introducing the displays of the central aisle
The dinosaurs in the Museum
The Megalosaurus and others
Alice and the Museum
The famous connection with Lewis Carroll
The Oxford dodo
The famous Oxford specimen
The Museum swifts
The famous swifts of the tower
Architecture of the Museum
The design and beauty of the building
Statues in the court
Great scientists depicted in stone
Stonework of the Museum
Columns, capitals and corbels around the gallery
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