Teaching in the museum

Overview: 

The role of the museum has always been to supplement student teaching- specifically that surrounding the study of animal diversity, adaptation, classification and comparative anatomy. 

Due to this the museum includes an assortment of specifically created material such as:

• Life history jars: which display the development of different animals from bandicoots to flies

• Double specimens, half taxidermy half skeletal to illustrate how the skeleton supports the animal

• Dissections showing different organs or nerve networks

• Evolutionary processes for example the convergent evolution of the Mountain Treeshrew Tupia montana and the tree squirrel Sciurus everetti which results in very similar looking animals, despite coming from different ancestral lineages that would have diverged over 98 million years ago. 

• Comparative displays e.g. the difference between ape, gibbon and human hands or the comparison of brain structures in small mammals.

To this day the museum is still used in teaching.