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The neo-Gothic front of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History with its pointed central tower, seen across the lawn on a cloudy day.
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Ethan Doyle White · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Parks Road opened in 1860 in a neo-Gothic building by Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward, shaped by the ideas of John Ruskin. Under a glass roof on cast-iron columns stand dinosaur skeletons and the remains of a dodo. In June 1860 it hosted the evolution debate between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.

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Mon10:00–17:00
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Wed10:00–17:00
Thu10:00–17:00
Fri10:00–17:00
Sat10:00–17:00
Sun10:00–17:00

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