The Manchester Museum: an online tour of the ‘Living Worlds’ gallery

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View of the ‘Living Worlds’ gallery from stairs. © The Manchester Museum

The following text is the second part of our online tours around the Manchester Museum; the first tour is here. This time we are presenting a brief overview of the museum’s gallery called Liwing Worlds’.

Fig. 1. Skeleton of a young Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) found dying on sea ice in Massachusetts in 1896, mounted by Harry Brazenor in 1898. The whale was suspended from the ceiling of the mammal gallery, where it became an iconic specimen, emblematic of the Museum as a whole. © The Manchester Museum

The ‘Living Worlds’ gallery sits at the heart of the oldest galleries of the Manchester Museum, which were purpose built to show their newly acquired natural history collections. The striking views of the cases and the balconies to the floors above are similar now to how they…

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