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response to Wilberforce's question, that he had "no need to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather, but that he would be ashamed of having for an ancestor a man of restless and versatile interest who distracts the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digression and skilled appeals to religious prejudice."
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Professor Brodie and exclaiming, "The Lord has delivered him into mine hands." When Huxley spoke, he responded that he had heard nothing from Wilberforce to prejudice Darwin's arguments, which still provided the best explanation of the origin of species yet advanced. He ended with the equally famous
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around a central display area. The building was officially opened in 1860, although various departments had occupied their premises from as early as 1858. In 1858, Acland gave a lecture on the museum, setting forth the reason for the building's construction. He viewed that the university had been
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of "defacing" the building by adding unauthorised work. According to Acland, the O'Shea brothers responded by caricaturing the members of Convocation as parrots and owls in the carving over the building's entrance. Acland insists that he forced them to remove the heads from these carvings.
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While all the accounts of the event suggest that the supporters of Darwinism were the most persuasive, it seems likely that the exact nature of the debate was made more sensational in the reports of Huxley's supporters to encourage further support for Darwin's theories.
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building in 1978. However, there is still a working entomology laboratory on the first floor of the museum building. Between 1885 and 1886 a new building to the east of the museum was constructed to house the
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Since 1997 the museum has benefited from external funding, from government and private sources, and undertaken a renewal of its displays. As well as central exhibits featuring the dodo and
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pillars, which divide the court into three aisles. Cloistered arcades run around the ground and first floor of the building, with stone columns each made from a different
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as being "one of the most significant and carefully detailed museum complexes of the mid-late C19, as well as being a seminal monument to Oxford's scientific awakening."
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The tower of the museum is a popular nesting area for migrating swifts. Cameras have been installed which broadcast a live stream to a display near the main entrance.
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had been employed to create lively freehand carvings in the Gothic manner. When funding dried up, they offered to work unpaid, but they were accused by members of the
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collections and the mineral and rock collections, Life Collections which include zoological and entomological collections, and the Archive Collections.
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do not make mention of the words that have become such notable quotations. Additionally, contemporary accounts suggest that it was not Huxley, but Sir
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The university's Honour School of Natural Science started in 1850, but the facilities for teaching were scattered around the city of
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However it seems unlikely that the debate was as spectacular as traditionally suggested – contemporary accounts by
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in 2011, and there are front of house, education, outreach, IT, library, conservation, and technical staff.
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knowledge of the great material design of which the Supreme Master-Worker has made us a constituent part
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The largest portion of the museum's collections consist of the natural history specimens from the
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Wilberforce's speech on 30 June 1860 was good-humoured and witty, but was an unfair attack on
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took place in the lecture theatre of the museum on 14 August 1894, carried out by Professor
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The museum collections are divided into three sections: Earth Collections covering the
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The Museum has been featured in several movies, television shows and documentaries.
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Initially, Huxley was planning to avoid the bishop's speech. However, evolutionist
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The museum is being renovated and the layout being changed between 2023 and 2024.
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departments. The museum provides the only public access into the adjoining
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The adjoining building that houses the Pitt Rivers Museum was the work of
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On 12 January 1954 both the Natural History and Pitt Rivers museums were
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The museum foregrounded by the 'Ghost Forest' installation, March 2011
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Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
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specimens were similarly spread around the city. Regius Professor of
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Virtual Tour of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History 2014
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Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
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Various scenes were filmed around Oxford for the 2017 blockbuster
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began in 1855, and the building was ready for occupancy in 1860.
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J. R. Lucas, "Wilberforce and Huxley: A Legendary Encounter"
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building, and received by apparatus in the lecture theatre.
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On March 17, 2020, the museum shut indefinitely due to the
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Wilberforce is purported to have turned to his neighbour,
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and the first appointed curator of the collections was
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influence, criticised the theory pointing out that the
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James O'Shea at work on carvings of animals and plants.
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University museum of natural history in Oxford, England
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Directors of the University Museum of Natural History
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Secretaries to the Delegates of the University Museum
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The museum is led by a director (as of 2023 Professor
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took place in the museum in 1860 at a meeting of the
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tree in front of the museum was 35.7m tall in 2006.
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