United Kingdom
England
South East England
Windsor and Maidenhead
Eton
Eton Natural History Museum
United Kingdom
England
South East England
Windsor and Maidenhead
Eton
Eton Natural History Museum
Cycling Highlight
Recommended by 21 cyclists
Location: Eton, Windsor and Maidenhead, South East England, England, United Kingdom
More than 16,000 specimens and displays are housed at the museum, exploring themes including Thames Valley wildlife, biodiversity, evolution, and ecology. The museum was first created to house the Thackeray Collection of British Birds. It opened in 1875 and 20 years later moved to its present site.
Unique exhibits include a rare surviving page from Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and material relating to famous botanist and Old Etonian Sir Joseph Banks, who sailed on HMB Endeavour with Captain Cook. There are also extensive collections of insects (mainly butterflies and moths), the William Hincks Herbarium, a full set of Banks’ Florilegium, fossils and birds’ eggs.
July 8, 2018
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