1Life Science Hall

The origin of life, dinosaurs, extinction, mammals and the human body, opening with an ice age elephant skeleton and including the Egyptian mummy.

In This Area

Dinosaur Gallery

hall opened 1988; displays renewed since

Life Science Hall, first floor

Palaeoloxodon Huaihoensis Skeleton

Pleistocene, about 100,000 to 10,000 years ago

Life Science Hall, entrance lobby

Egyptian Mummy and Coffin of Di-Khnoum

Late Period, first millennium BC

Life Science Hall