Editing University of Manchester (section)

====Manchester Museum====
[[File:Manchester Museum Entrance.jpg|thumb|upright|The entrance to the Manchester Museum]]
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The Manchester Museum holds nearly 4.25 million<ref name=MuseumCollection>{{cite web |url=http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/ |title=Manchester Museum's ''Our collection'' page |access-date=26 February 2008 |archive-date=9 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809084953/http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/ |url-status=live }}</ref> items sourced from many parts of the world. The collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the [[Mediterranean]], and beetles, armour and [[archery]] from Asia. In November 2004, the museum acquired a cast of a fossilised ''[[Tyrannosaurus]] rex'' called "Stan".

The museum's first collections were assembled in 1821 by the Manchester Society of [[Natural History]], and subsequently expanded by the addition of the collections of Manchester Geological Society. Due to the society's financial difficulties and on the advice of evolutionary biologist [[Thomas Huxley]], [[Owens College]] accepted responsibility for the collections in 1867. The college commissioned [[Alfred Waterhouse]], architect of London's [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], to design a museum on a site in Oxford Road to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public. The Manchester Museum was opened to the public in 1888.<ref>[http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ The History of The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627082857/http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ |date=27 June 2009 }}. Retrieved 25 November 2007.</ref>