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UCL Grant Museum of Zoology

Get to know your dodo from your quagga at the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, home to 100,000 natural history specimens from every continent, every ocean, and every animal group, and established in 1828.

Event: Virtual Worlds: Corals at the Grant Museum

Explore the Grant Museum of Zoology like never before in this virtual reality experience.

Museum highlights: The Micrarium

A beautiful back-lit cave of 2,300 microscope slides giving a glimpse of the vast diversity of animal life, nearly all of which is minute.

Museum items in a glass unit

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Everything you need to know before your visit.

Skeleton on display in the Grant Museum

What's on

Latest news from the museum and information about our current events.

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About us

Who we are, what we do, and how to get involved.

Exhibit of butterflies in a case, Grant Museum

Teaching and learning

Specimen-based teaching for academic staff, school visits and more.

Exhibit items on shelf, with jar of moles in the forefront

Highlights

Wonders from our collection.

Small items on display in the Grant Museum

Collections and research

Our database and collections information.

Contact us

If you would like assistance with planning your visit, please contact our visitor services team:

Our phone line is open 10am–5pm, Monday – Saturday.

Digital resources

Search our online catalogue to explore UCL’s rich and diverse collections.