A Victorian glass-roofed hall on iron pillars, with natural history collections and the only known soft-tissue remains of a dodo.
Get directionsParks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW
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.
Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW
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