Grant Museum of Zoology

The West End


This fascinating and little-known museum contains 68,000 specimens from the animal kingdom, including many that are extinct or critically endangered. Items of particular interest include the very rare skeleton of a quagga (an extinct South African zebra), the bones of a dodo and a Tasmanian tiger (an extinct dog-like striped marsupial), plus a riveting collection of bisected animal heads. The Micrarium displays back-lit microscope slides framing over some 20,000 tiny objects, including the hair of a woolly mammoth.

Transportation

  • underground: Euston Sq

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