Highlights from the UCL Grant Museum

Our top specimens.

Jar of Moles

One of the most bizarre objects in the museum’s collection is a large jar crammed full of whole preserved moles.

Quagga skeleton

With only seven examples known of this South African zebra, extinct since 1883, this is the rarest skeleton in the world.

Thylacines

Deliberately driven to extinction in 1936, we house extremely rare preserved dissections and skeletons of these dog-like carnivorous marsupials.

The Micrarium

A beautiful back-lit cave of 2,300 microscope slides giving a glimpse of the vast diversity of animal life, nearly all of which is minute.

African Rock Python skeleton

This intricate 5m long snake skeleton is unusually displayed wrapped around a branch. The animal lived at London Zoo.

Dodo bones

These icons of extinction had disappeared by 1681. The Grant Museum has a large assemblage of bones displayed in trays.

Giant Deer

This ice-age wonder went extinct about 7,000 years ago. Its antlers were almost twice as wide as its height.

Glass model of invertebrate, by Leopold Blaschka

Blaschka Glass Models of Invertebrates

The Blaschka collection comprises glass models of jellyfish, sea anemones, gastropods, sea cucumbers and cephalopods, all made by Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph.