The Manchester Museum: an online tour of the ‘Nature’s Library’ gallery

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View of the Nature’s Library gallery. © Dmitri Logunov

Manchester Museum is part of the University of Manchester and one of the UK’s leading university museums, holding more than 4.5 million objects and specimens, ranged across nature and culture. The Museum has eight main permanent galleries that reflect its main mission to build understanding between cultures and a more sustainable world. Here is a brief survey of the Museum’s gallery called ‘Nature’s Library’.

Figs. 1–2. On the left: Tens of thousands of soft-bodied organisms, like spiders, are preserved in 70% alcohol and are kept in jars in the hidden storerooms of the Manchester Museum. – On the right: Scallops (Pectenidae) exist in a stunning array of natural colours and patterns. It is believed that Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was born from a scallop shell. © Michael Pollard and The Manchester Museum.

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