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Audio description

We have a number of recordings of audio descriptions of objects in our ground floor galleries.

Africa (Room 25)

  • Burnished pots
  • Copper tribute blades
  • Kozo, the double-headed dog
  • Tree of Life
  • Wooden stool carved by Ngongo ya Chintu

Living and Dying (Room 24)

  • Hoa Hakananai’a
  • Hohao (spirit board)
  • The Atomic Apocalypse, by the Linares family
  • Cradle to Grave, by Pharmacopoeia

Egyptian Sculpture (Room 4)

  • Granite statue of Sekhmet
  • Colossal bust of Ramesses II
  • Giant sculpture of a scarab beetle
  • The Rosetta stone

Enlightenment (Room 1)

  • Skull and lower jaw of an ichthyosaur
  • Wax model of the Laocoon
  • Bronze cosmetic container: Charles Townley's cista mystica
  • Replica of a Maori hand club

Parthenon Sculptures (Room 18)

  • Head of a horse of Selene from the Parthenon sculptures
  • Central scene of the east frieze of the Parthenon
  • Figure of Iris from the west pediment of the Parthenon

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