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This small piece of jewellery from el-Riqqeh in #Egypt is made of gold & inlaid with precious stones including lapis lazuli. It is nearly 4,000 years old & has one

For many, Easter wouldn’t be Easter, without eggs! So today, we have something very special from our collection, a dinosaur egg!It is the egg of a dinosaur called Hypselosaurus &

Connection & inspiration is needed during challenging times like this. We've uploaded our digital content onto a mobile site so you can explore the museum in your home We hope

The Manchu headdress or dian zi was given to the museum by Mrs Wood-Jones in 1939. She was the wife of Frederic Wood-Jones FRS 1879-1954 one of the founders of

The Noble Chafer is a beautiful iridescent beetle & star of our exhibition #MMBeautyandtheBeasts which invites you to encounter beauty in #minibeasts and fall in love with insects.Continuing our daily

A refugee’s life jacket from the island of Lesvos.We have many ancient objects but continue to collect, so we can tell some of the most important stories shaping our world

One of the most iconic objects in our #Archaeology collection, the Manchester Wordsquare was found in an excavation in #Manchester city centre in 1978.A daily thread of awe & wonder

A 20,000-year-old mammoth tooth from @CreswellCrags a limestone gorge on the border of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire, home to Ice Age rock art & once inhabited by Neanderthals. The museum at