As well as working on Manchester Museum’s Visitor Team, Diana also volunteers behind the scenes in the Entomology department. In today’s Story From The Museum Floor, Diana takes us on a many legged journey through one of the Museum’s largest collections.
For more on our Entomology collections please have a look at the curator’s blog.
A Museum full of legs
Would you believe me if I told you that there are more than one and a half million legs at Manchester Museum – only counting spider legs?
Arachnophobes read on at your own risk!
Manchester Museum houses nearly 200,000 British and foreign spider specimens, representing more than 3,600 species. The spider collection (class Arachnida, order Araneae) is worldwide in scope and likely to be the third largest in the UK.
This blog explores some of the history and people involved in assembling and maintaining this collection, with…
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