Top ten specimens in the Grant Museum

Jar of moles
One of the most bizarre specimens in the Museum is a large jar stuffed with whole preserved moles.

Quagga skeleton
With only seven examples known of this South African zebra, extinct since 1883, this is the rarest skeleton in the world.

Thylacines
These carnivorous marsupials were deliberately driven to extinction in 1936. The Museum houses extremely rare, preserved dissections, skeletons and skulls.

The Micrarium
A beautiful back-lit cave of 2,300 microscope slides highlighting some of the smallest specimens in the collection.

Central African Rock Python skeleton
This intricate 5m long snake skeleton is unusually displayed wrapped around a branch. The animal lived at London Zoo.

Dodo bones
The Grant Museum has a large assemblage of Dodo bones displayed in trays.

Giant deer antlers
The Grant Museum’s magnificent giant deer skull and antlers are among the largest of their kind in the world.

Blaschka Glass Models of Invertebrates
The Blaschka collection comprises of exquisite glass models of marine invertebrates and terrestrial gastropods made by Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph in the 1880s.

Seychelles Frogs
Research on these tiny, endangered frogs provide insight into future climate impacts for vulnerable animals.

Sawfish rostra
Historic museum specimens like these sawfish rostra are important for modern research aiming to conserve living species.