Museum of Life Sciences
The Museum of Life Sciences is a life science and natural history museum that is part of King's College London in London, England. It is housed on the Guy's Campus, adjacent to the Gordon Museum of Pathology in the Hodgkin Building. It was founded in 2009 and is the first new museum in King's College for over 100 years.[1] It exists to explain the diversity of animal and plant life in the context of the biological and health sciences. The current curator is Dr Gillian Sales.[2]
The Museum contains historic biological and pharmaceutical collections from the constituent colleges (Queen Elizabeth College, Chelsea College, King's College London and Guy's Medical School) that make up the modern King's College London with the exception of St. Thomas Hospital.[1] The specimens of the Museum date from 1800s to the present, and are arranged into distinct collections: Zoological, Botanical, Pharmaceutical, Microscope Slide and Craniofacial Skeletal collections.[3] These include skeletons, fluid-preserved material, taxidermy, dried items, fossils, microscope and a herbarium of plant material.
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External links
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- Museum of Life Sciences home page on King's College London website
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faculties
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centres
and divisions
- Centre for Children and Adolescents
- Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Department of Classics
- Department of Digital Humanities
- Department of International Development
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of War Studies
- Digital Classicist
- International Centre for Prison Studies
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute
- MRC SGDP Centre
- Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics
- School of Education, Communication and Society
- Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
- Twins Early Development Study
and places
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- Academic dress of King's College London
- Aldwych tube station
- Associateship of King's College
- Chelsea College of Science and Technology
- Coat of arms of King's College London
- Creighton Lecture
- History
- Inkha
- King's College London Business
- King's College London–UCL rivalry
- Queen Elizabeth College
- Roman Baths, Strand Lane
- Third-oldest university in England debate
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