Collections and research

Antiquities

We have 50,000 artefacts from across the ancient world including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon collections.

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Botany

The herbarium currently contains around 400,000 specimens, the great majority being pressed dried mounted specimens.

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Ethnology

Our collection ranks among the top six collections in the country and is made up of around 40,000 objects.

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Geology

The geological collection at World Museum contains over 40,000 fossils as well as extensive rock and mineral collections.

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Horology

The horology collections are extensive, containing over 12,000 items and are of international significance.

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Physical sciences

The collection contains several significant items from the Liverpool Royal Institution and Bidston Observatory.

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Zoology

The zoology collection is made up of around 1.2 million specimens of invertebrate and vertebrate animals.

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