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Robert Edmond Grant was the first Chair of Zoology in England, the founder of the Grant Museum collection and its first curator. He set the precedent that the Chair of Zoology at UCL (then the University of London) was also the curator of the comparative zoology collection. On his death Grant left
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The Grant Museum has been in continuous use by students at UCL since 1828, and first opened to the public in 1996. In 2011, the museum moved from its previous location in the Darwin Building on the UCL campus to the Thomas Lewis Room in the Rockefeller Building, formerly the UCL Medical School
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The Grant Museum contains around 68,000 zoological specimens, many of which are very rare and several of which have been recently rediscovered. The collection contains specimens from a number of former university collections, including specimens from
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and material for dissection. It is one of the oldest natural history collections in the UK, and is the last remaining university natural history museum in London. Notable specimens and objects held by the museum include a rare
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in 1875. Lankester was curator until 1891 and added significantly to the museum collection. Later lecturer curators included evolutionary biologist
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bones which had been stored away for a century until being rediscovered in 2011 while the collection was moved to a new building
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and various London hospital comparative anatomy collections. The museum also contains specimens from the collections of
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fossil which was assumed to be a plaster cast, but turned out to be a real fossil
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Conversation pieces : inspirational objects in UCL's historic collections
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which was discovered hanging in an Irish hotel and then acquired by the museum
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Collections., University College, London. College Art (21 July 2013).
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before care of the collection passed to invertebrate zoologist
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his own collection to the museum, and was briefly succeeded by
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skeleton which was not identified as such until 1981
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Grant Museum

Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is located in Central London
London
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Natural history
London Underground
Euston Square
Warren Street
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Grant Museum
natural history museum
University College London
London
Robert Edmond Grant
zoological specimens
quagga
thylacine
dodo
Blaschka glass models
William Henry Allchin
Edwin Ray Lankester
W. F. R. Weldon
Edward Alfred Minchin
J. P. Hill
D. M. S. Watson
Imperial College London
Queen Mary University of London
London Zoo

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