Manchester Museum
 Manchester Museum |
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| place | Manchester , 7 Oxford Road , England |
| opening | 1835 |
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The Manchester Museum is an archaeological, anthropological and natural history museum of the University of Manchester .
history
The inventory is based on a collection by John Leigh Philips . Seven years after his death, the Manchester Natural History Society was founded in 1821 . From 1935 it was in a building on Peter Street. In 1850 it became part of the Manchester Geological Society's collection. In 1868 the museum was moved to a new building. Due to further growth, the museum changed its location several times in 1913 and 1927.
Duration
The museum includes exhibits in the fields of archery , archeology , botany , Egyptology , entomology , ethnography , mineralogy , paleontology , coinage and zoology . In the museum there is a cast of a Tyrannosaurus Rex , which was discovered by Stan Sacrison in 1978. Around 70 percent of its skeleton has been preserved. The Manchester Museum has the prepared skull of Old Billy , the horse with the longest known lifespan.
Font of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Hieroglyphics on an Egyptian funeral table
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The History of The Manchester Museum . In: museum.manchester.ac.uk, accessed January 29, 2017.
- ↑ Stan the Tyrannosaurus rex ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: museum.manchester.ac.uk, accessed January 30, 2017.
- ^ Stan the T. rex - facts . In: BBC, accessed January 30, 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 27'59 " N , 2 ° 14'4" W.