Warren Street, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Euston or Euston Square
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.
Mon-Fri 13:00-17:00 (closed bank holidays). Other times by appointment. Closed Christmas and Easter
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