Oxford's Museum of Natural History completes biggest redisplay
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History has completed a major multi-year redisplay project titled 'Life, as we know it.' The initiative features over 3,000 objects, including the historic Megalosaurus fossil, across 48 new themed displays.
Why it matters
This project modernizes one of the UK's oldest scientific institutions, enhancing public engagement with evolutionary history and biodiversity.
Image source, Fisher Studios and Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford Image caption, The predatory Eustreptospondylus, discovered in Summertown in 1870, will also be showcased
The first ever scientifically named dinosaur is featured at the heart of a long-term exhibition project by the UK's oldest natural history museum.
The 166-year-old Oxford University Museum of Natural History, on Park Road, has completed the final phrase of its historic redisplay initiative, called "Life, as we know it", with more than 3,000 objects installed.
That includes the Megalosaurus, a Jurassic dinosaur discovered in a quarry in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, in the late 18th Century.
Museum director Dr Gavin Svenson said the new displays, which open on Monday, "bring together thousands of specimens to tell some of the most important stories in science".
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