Grant Museum of Zoology

Animal skeletons, taxidermy specimens and creatures preserved in fluid lend the Grant Museum, which dates from 1828, the air of the house of an avid Victorian collector. The collection includes remains of many rare and extinct animals, such as a dodo and the skeleton of the zebra-like quagga, which was hunted out of existence in the 1880s. Also fascinating is the Grant Museum's collection of bisected heads, created by Sir Victor Negus, which look quite normal on one side but can be turned round to reveal the brain within. There are items of cultural interest too: a huge elephant skull helps to explain the Cyclops myth - its large central cavity looking very plausible as a monocular eye socket but really the space for an airway.