The Natural History Museum across its lawn
The glass and iron roof over the museum's court

Oxford Natural History Museum

Oxford

A Victorian glass-roofed hall on iron pillars, with natural history collections and the only known soft-tissue remains of a dodo.

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MuseumTime here: 1–1.5 h

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Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW

Quick facts

The building opened in 1860, and a British Association meeting held a debate on evolution there that June, usually remembered as Huxley against Bishop Wilberforce.

A glass-roofed court on cast iron pillars divides the main hall into three aisles.

It holds the only known soft-tissue dodo specimen, a head and a leg, and a 1651 painting of a dodo that may have influenced Lewis Carroll's character.

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