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Museum of Natural History
A soaring Victorian hall of iron and glass, filled with dinosaurs and the famous Oxford dodo.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PWDirections
- Getting There
- A 10-minute walk north of the center.
Why Go
Opened in 1860, the museum was the scene that year of the great debate on Darwin's theory of evolution. Under its glass roof stand dinosaur skeletons and the remains of a dodo, the best surviving specimen in the world.
Nearby in Oxford
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