UCL Museums & Collections

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The Collections

Petrie Museum of Egyptology
Housing an estimated 80,000 objects, the Petrie Museum is one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. Painting of a Goddess
Grant Museum of Zoology
Retaining an air of the avid Victorian collector, the museum contains cases packed full of skeletons, mounted animals and specimens preserved in fluid. Dating back to 1827, the museum covers the whole of the animal kingdom. Agouti skeleton
UCL Art Museum
The UCL Art Museum was founded in 1847 with a gift of the sculpture models of John Flaxman. The Strang Print Room operates as a study centre and houses works on paper by artists including Dürer, Rembrandt, Turner and Constable. The Slade Collection contains Augustus John and Percy Wyndham Lewis. Sir Anthony van Dyck
The Galton Collection
Comprising around 500 scientific instruments, papers, and personal memorabilia of Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (1822-1911), this is a popular resource for researchers, schools, and those with an interest in the history of science. Fingerprinting
The Institute of Archaeology Collections 
These collections include fine prehistoric ceramics and stone artefacts, as well as collections of Classical Greek and Roman ceramics, archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological material, minerals and Western Asiatic material. Silver Tetradrachm from Athens, 440-400BC
The Geology Collections 
The Geology Collections contain a wealth of rocks, minerals and fossils collected globally over the last 175 years. Highlights include the Johnston-Lavis volcanological collection, the Regional Planetary Image Facility, and the UK repository for NASA images and maps. Volcano drawing
The Ethnography Collections
The Ethnography Collections hold an enormous variety of objects exemplifying material culture, textiles and artefacts from all over the world. Mask
The Science Collections 
The Science Collections house the wealth of scientific apparatus, equipment and memorabilia pertaining to the various scientists and their innovative work that was conducted at UCL over the last two centuries. Glass apparatus
Materials Library
The Materials Library is a collection of some of the most wondrous materials on earth, gathered together from sheds, labs, grottoes and repositories around the world, for their ability to fire the imagination and advance conceptualisation. Institute of Making
The Auto-Icon of Jeremy Bentham
Probably UCL's most famous possession is the 'auto-icon' of Jeremy Bentham, which consists of his skeleton, padded with straw, clothed in his original clothes, with a wax head on its shoulders, placed in a glass-fronted case. Jeremy Bentham