Oxford University Museum of Natural History (www.oum.ox.ac.uk) on Parks Road ('the University Museum' for short) - tel 01865 272950 - is housed in a purpose-built Victorian Gothic building inspired by Ruskin and recently restored (open Mon - Sat 12:00-17:00, admission free). The principal collections, including skeletons of dinosaurs and skulls of our ancestors, are housed in a courtyard with a glass roof supported by columns of cast iron wrought to resemble the branches of trees. A collection of rocks, selected to represent the most important in the British Isles, is also built into the fabric of the building. The museum is probably unique in being able to exhibit the complete remains of a Dodo.

The adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum (tel 01865 270927, open 12:00-16:30 daily, admission free) houses an interesting collection of bizarre anthropological exhibits, including shrunken heads and a totem pole.

The Museum of Oxford (tel 01865 815559, next to the Town Hall in St Aldates, open Tue - Sat 10:00-17.00, admission free) traces the history of the city in pictures and relics.

The Museum of Modern Art (tel 01865 722733, Pembroke Street) has regularly changing exhibitions, including innovative and experimental works.