A Museum for the Ages
The Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum lies just one mile south from the City Centre on the campus of the University of Manchester. Behind its Victorian gothic fa??ade there are some fascinating science exhibitions and displays.
The Museums Various Galleries
In the Fossils Gallery, over a quarter of a million specimens illustrate the story of life on Earth, its origin and evolution into the variety of life on the planet today. The centrepiece of the gallery is Tenontosaurus - an herbivorous dinosaur specially purchased for the gallery.
The Mezzanine gallery gives a birds eye view over the mineral gallery. There is an interactive display of meteorites where it??s possible to find more about our Solar System.
The Museum??s zoology collections are displayed in Alfred Waterhouse??s purpose built natural history galleries and show a wide variety of mammals and birds, some of which are extinct.
Science For Life
For the first time in Manchester, you can explore the workings of the human body through the interactive display, Science for Life. You can walk-through a giant human cell, arrange the heart, lungs and liver in a model torso and explore the human brain through a transparent head. You can also find out how advances in biomedical research help to combat disease.
As well as its science galleries the Museum also has wonderful displays of objects from modern and ancient civilisations.
Submitted by: The Manchester Museum, 27 March 2003
