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Top ten specimens in the Grant Museum

With over 100,000 specimens in the collection, it’s difficult to choose favourites! Here are ten specimens that make our shortlist.
Exhibit items on shelf, with jar of moles in the forefront

Jar of moles

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

Quagga skull, Grant Museum

Quagga skeleton

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

Thylacine skeleton, Grant Museum

Thylacines

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

The Micrarium at the Grant Museum, close up on the items

The Micrarium

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

Dodo bones laid out in a drawer

Dodo bones

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

Giant Deer skull and antlers, Grant Museum

Giant deer antlers

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

Glass model of invertebrate, by Leopold Blaschka

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 frog in a jar, Grant Museum

Seychelles Frogs

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

Exhibit of sawfish rostra, Grant Museum

Sawfish rostra

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