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UCL MUSEUMS IN One HOUR UCL MUSEUMS IN One afternoon self-guided tour self-guided tour

The Tarkhan Dress The Petrie Museum Petrie Museum of Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Egyptian Archaeology Middle of the main gallery on right Containing the teaching collection of Flinders Malet Place, This dress was excavated from a tomb at Petrie – the ‘Father of Archaeology’ – this is University College London, London WC1E 6BT Tarkhan in 1913 and dates to Dynasty 1 one of the most important museums of Tuesday–Saturday 1–5pm (3050 - 2800 BC). It is the oldest garment Egyptian artefacts outside Egypt. +44 (0)20 7679 2884 from Egypt on display in the world. [email protected]

Grant Museum of Zoology Rockefeller Building, Extinct Animals Display The Grant Museum of Zoology University College London, 21 University Street, Grant Museum An amazing collection displaying thousands London WC1E 6DE An amazing collection of recently extinct of specimens covering the whole of the Monday–Friday 1–5pm species including thylacines, dodos and animal kingdom, including some of the rarest +44 (0)20 3108 2052 a quagga – the rarest skeleton in the world. skeletons in the world. [email protected]

UCL Art Museum South Cloisters, Wilkins Building University College London, Gower Street, Marmor Homericum UCL Art Museum London WC1E 6BT North wall, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building Dedicated to exploring the relationships Monday–Friday 1–5pm The inhabitants of Delos listen spellbound as between making, teaching and collecting +44 (0)20 7679 2540 [email protected] Homer recites the Illiad in this Neo-Classical art. With over 10,000 objects from the 1490s work commissioned by George Grote, one of to the present day, its unrivalled collections UCL Archaeology Collections UCL’s founders. Nearby are the Koptos Lions comprise of works by award-winning Slade 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY – the earliest Egyptian sculpture displayed students, revered old masters and Monday–Friday 9am–5pm in England. celebrated neo-classicist John Flaxman. +44 (0)20 7679 4789 [email protected] The Flaxman Gallery UCL Archaeology Collections Euston Square Accessible via entrance to UCL’s Main in the Leventis Gallery Library; situated under the UCL Dome, Displays of material from Britain’s first Wilkins Building

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