Explore! gallery
Discover the stories behind some of the museum’s most-loved objects and the collectors who brought them here.
![View of a museum gallery showing a multicoloured rubber elephant sculpture and other items in a glass case. There is a Greek pot, a taxidermy wombat and a taxidermy impala head](https://d279tnhy9skgzk.cloudfront.net/wQAvDsPjDAeGD8mOxPHTuVYnL6Q=/0x0:0x0/720x0/https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/atwam-images-files/production/images/content/greatnorthmuseum/2018-12/231433.jpg)
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Butterflies and tribal drums, ancient flints and modern flip-flops, gigantic gems and tiny shrew skulls… this gallery is a marvellous mix of just about everything!
Discover the stories behind some of the museum’s most-loved objects and the collectors who brought them here, and learn more about the way in which these pieces of the past bring long-lost worlds back to life.