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The Grant Museum is named in
after its founder, Professor Robert Edmond Grant, one of the
pioneers of evolutionary theory and taught the young Charles
Darwin.
In 1928 Grant was appointed
the first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in
Britain at University College London, and he founded the Museum
that year. Grant was probably the first person to teach
evolution, some twenty years before Darwin published 'Origin
of Species'.
The Grant Museum is one of the
oldest natural history museums in Britain, with a varied collection
covering the whole animal kingdom. Its cases are packed
with skeletons, mounted animals and specimens in fluid, and
the museum still has the air of a Victorian collector.
Many rare and extinct creatures
are on display, including the marsupial wolf and the dodo.
Admission free
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