Type Natural history Phone +44 20 3108 2052 | Website Grant Museum Founded 1828 | |
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Established 1828; 189 years ago (1828) Location University Street
London, WC1
United Kingdom Public transit access Euston Square; Warren Street
Euston Address 21 University St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6DE, UK Hours Open today · 1–5PMSaturday1–5PMSundayClosedMonday1–5PMTuesday1–5PMWednesday1–5PMThursday1–5PMFriday1–5PM Similar Petrie Museum of Egyptian, UCL Art Museum, Wellcome Collection, Horniman Museum, London Canal Museum Profiles | ||
Object 3 the grant museum of zoology and comparative anatomy
The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a natural history museum that is part of University College London in London, England. It was established by Robert Edmond Grant in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens and material for dissection. On his death Grant left his own collection to the museum. In 1875 Edwin Ray Lankester added to the museum collection. Later lecturer curators include W. F. R. Weldon (1860–1906), Edward Alfred Minchin, an embryologist named J. P. Hill and a palaeontologist named D. M. S. Watson. After 1948 the museum was under the care of professional curators.
The collection contains around 67,000 zoological specimens, many of which are very rare and several of which have been rediscovered only recently in storage. The collection contains specimens from a number of former university collections, including specimens from Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London in addition to material from London Zoo and various London hospital comparative anatomy collections.
In 2011, the museum moved from its previous location in the Darwin Building on the UCL campus to new quarters in the Thomas Lewis Room in the Rockefeller Building, formerly the UCL Medical School library.