Use the links below to explore Manchester Museum's teeth related exhibits.
Explore Manchester Museum... The Manchester Museum contains over four million objects, collected over 200 years from around the world by scientists and private collectors. On the Animal Life Galleries you can come face to face with a wide variety of mammals, birds, insects and other invertebrates.
The museum has a Vivarium, where you can see living reptiles, frogs and fish. You can find out more about the museum, its collections and things to do from the museum website www.museum.manchester.ac.uk
Where do the museum's animals come from?
On the museum’s Animal Life galleries, you will find over 400 mammals and over 1,000 birds. These are mostly over 100 years old, and their skins have been preserved and stuffed to make them appear alive. The glass eyes can make them look spooky.
We use these old specimens to inspire and educate people about our fragile world, and the wonderful things which we share it with. The museum collections are used by scientists, artists and many other people, but anyone can come and see them. Many of the objects have interesting stories attached to them. The skeleton of Maharajah, an Asian Elephant, is on display. Maharajah walked from Edinburgh to Manchester with his keeper, a distance of over 200 miles.
Learn more in the museum's galleries
You can use the galleries to see the variety of mammals - the way in which mammals have different lengths of hair depending on where they live and, particularly, how animals with different diets have differently shaped teeth. The shape of birds beaks tells you a lot about what they eat, and there are over 1,000 on display in the museum.
On the Fossil Gallery, you will find Stan, our very own T-rex, together with a variety of fossil mammals from the Peak District near Manchester- including lions, rhinos, hippos, hyenas and woolly mammoths!
Take a look at some of the specimens in the Manchester Museum teeth photo gallery...