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A wood engraving of the proposed University Museum dated 1855

The University's Honour School of Natural Science started in 1850, but the facilities for teaching were scattered around the city of Oxford in the various colleges. Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acland, initiated the construction of the Museum between 1855 and 1860, to bring together all the aspects of science around a central display area.

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The largest portion of the Museum's collections consist of the Natural History specimens from the Ashmolean Museum and the Christ Church Museum donated its Osteological and Physiological specimens.
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The construction of the building was accomplished through money earned from the sale of Bibles. Several departments moved within the building - Astronomy, Geometry, Experimental Physics, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Geology, Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology and Medicine.

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Dinosaur exhibition in Interior of Oxford University Museum of Natural History