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Ancient Egypt

Explore more than 1300 antiquities online including mummies, coffins, sculpture, jewellery, and papyrus.

Bombed Out! World Museum and the Blitz

The story of the damage caused by the bombing of the museum on 3 May 1941.
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Selim Aga

Nigerian travelling equipment sold to World Museum in 1860 by former enslaved African, Selim Aga.
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Kouklia, Ancient Cyprus

Ancient Cypriot antiquities from a major excavation at Kouklia in the 1950s.

Tibetan clothing

Robes and dancers' attire from the Charles Bell Tibetan collection.

From Antiquities to Zoology, over 1.7 million internationally significant artefacts and specimens.

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All collections at World Museum

antiquities

Antiquities

80,000 objects from across the ancient world including Egyptian, Nubian, Greek, Roman, Cypriot, Mesopotamian and Anglo-Saxon collections.

botany

Botany

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

ethnology

Ethnology

The collection is made up of around 40,000 objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

geology

Geology

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

horology

Horology

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

physical-sciences

Physical sciences

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

zoology

Zoology

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

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