Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Front view of the museum | |
Oxford University Museum of Natural History | |
| Established | 1860 |
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| Location | Parks Road, Oxford, England |
| Coordinates | 51°45′31″N 1°15′21″W / 51.7586°N 1.2557°W |
| Type | University museum of natural history |
| Collections | Natural history |
| Collection size | approx. 7 million objects |
| Visitors | 792,282 (2019) |
| Founder | Sir Henry Acland |
| Director | Gavin J. Svenson |
| Architect | Thomas Newenham Deane, Benjamin Woodward |
| Website | oumnh.ox.ac.uk |
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the university's chemistry, zoology and mathematics departments. The museum provides the only public access into the adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum.