The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, home to one of the finest and most important collections of its kind in the country, opens to the public today (Friday May 25th), following an 18-month closure.
Described by curator Mark Elliott as an institution containing ‘everything, everywhere, ever’, the museum has undergone a radical transformation to bring its treasures to life as never before.
For the first time in more than a century, the museum now also has a front door, facing out on to Downing Street, rather than its former departmental entrance, hidden out of sight at the back of the building.
Each of the thousands of objects chosen for display is literally one in a million; although an exact number isn’t known, the museum’s vast collection of artefacts numbers around the million mark.
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Image: Biting the Doctor's Arm Credit: University of Cambridge
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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