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The University of London is most certainly not the third oldest in the UK! Not by a long straw....with QUITE a few centuries (and several universities) intervening. (And some of the older universities have quite gratuitiously medieval traditions, in many cases made up in the last 50 years by undergraduates OD-ing on Evelyn Waugh, to remind all of their age and eminence...)
It may possibly be the third oldest in England, however. (As a graduate of that place, as well of the one that really is the third oldest in the UK, perhaps I should know, but regrettably I don't).
/insomniac pedantry
Venichka | 08.11.09 - 6:48 a.m. | #
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OK, "in England" not "in the UK", sorry.
I see Wikipedia has a lengthy article debating which is the third oldest University in England, so it might be UCL or it might not.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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Ummm.... No
Undercroft Museum in All Hallows by the Tower
Ham | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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...which is officially (according to the All Hallows website) "The Crypt Museum".
If I'm having this much trouble with U, imagine what fun X/Y/Z is going to be.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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Whilst at UCL studying microbiology I remember being disappointed that the Petrie had no petri dishes.
NiC | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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Ah yes. The website. Beats a real sign, any day 
Ham | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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The real sign outside All Hallows Church says "Museum". And the sandwichboard in the street says "Historic Museum".
/eyewitnessfactcheck
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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I think UCL is getting ready to move the Petrie into a new location on campus, with better exhibits and all.
Granted, they were saying that when I was a student there four years ago, so who knows if that will ever happen.
veronica | 08.11.09 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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The Museum of the Unknown
Address: Oxo Tower Bargehouse Street, South Bank, SE1 9PH
or the Underwear Collection at the V&A
There's a York House Museum in Twickenham, but I think you already went.
Try X5 or Zoom in for photographical history or the Grant Museum of Zoology.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear | 08.11.09 - 8:54 p.m. | #
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Westminster Abbey has an Undercroft Museum
http://www.westminster-abbey.org...dercroft-
museum
Exit, Pursued by a Bear | 08.11.09 - 9:02 p.m. | #
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UCL is not the same institution as the University of London. It was originally founded as the University of London, but forced at an early date to give up that name, replacing it with University College London (which is still its official name, though in typically trendy fashion it insists on using its initials). The actual University of London, whose relationship with UCL is somewhat complex, was founded a few years later. Both claim to be the third oldest university is Engalnd; UCL was undoubtedly there earlier, but it isn't technically a university, though for most practical purposes it is like one.
Andrew M | 08.11.09 - 9:51 p.m. | #
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Don't tell me that you missed the skeleton or the 'world's oldest dress'!
Dominic Self | Homepage | 09.11.09 - 1:31 a.m. | #
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Three years a UCL student and I never once made it into the Petrie Museum [sigh]. Thanks for the tour, 25 years later.
I did go into the Zoology museum a few times, as that was in my own department. I invariably had the crowded racks of dusty glass cases and wooden display cabinets crammed full of skeletons and stuffed animals entirely to myself, and was always slightly afraid that some of the specimens might come to life in Tales of the Unexpected fashion, to take their revenge for all those dissections of rats and rabbits we had to do during practicals. If you do visit there for Z, I'll be interested to hear whether or not it's been updated at all!
Claire in Osaka | 09.11.09 - 2:46 a.m. | #
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This museum is almost literally right next door to my building. And no, I've never been in there either.
swirlythingy | Homepage | 15.06.12 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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