Oxford University Museum of Natural History

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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a renowned Victorian Gothic museum in Oxford, England, housing the University of Oxford’s extensive scientific and natural history collections, including important dinosaur fossils and the Oxford Dodo.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf museum building
natural history museum
university museum
adjacentTo Pitt Rivers Museum
architecturalStyle Gothic Revival
surface form: Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival
surface form: Victorian Gothic
chargesAdmission no
collectionSize over 7 million specimens
country United Kingdom
designedBy Benjamin Woodward
Thomas Deane
surface form: Thomas Newenham Deane
function public education
research
university teaching
givesAccessTo Pitt Rivers Museum
hasArtworkBy Pre-Raphaelite art
surface form: Pre-Raphaelite artists
hasCollection botanical specimens
entomological specimens
geological specimens
mineral specimens
natural history collection
palaeontological specimens
scientific instruments
zoological specimens
hasPart arcaded galleries
central court
entomology collections area
geology gallery
iron and glass roof
zoology gallery
heritageDesignation Grade I listed building
heritageDesignationCountry United Kingdom
inception 1860
locatedIn England
Oxford
locatedOn Parks Road
nearby University Parks
notableExhibit Archaeopteryx lithographica
surface form: Archaeopteryx cast

Iguanodon fossils
Megalosaurus fossils
dodo (extinct)
surface form: Oxford Dodo

dinosaur fossils
opened 1860
ownedBy University of Oxford NERFINISHED
partOf University of Oxford NERFINISHED
primaryLanguage English
publicAccess yes
website https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/

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University of Oxford hasMuseum Oxford University Museum of Natural History