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Tactile Tour of The Manchester Museum
Please wash your hands before the start of the tour.
This is because the oils in our skin are acidic and can
be damaging to the objects.
Floor G
Foyer
 To the left of the entrance is a large Egyptian
granite temple column, part of a granite column
and a granite block
Rocks and Minerals
 Earth interactive: can touch
 Florescent rocks: can’t touch, but visitors with
limited sight may be able to see it
Pre-historic Life
 Fossil Forest: large so visitors with limited sight
may be able to see it
1. Stem of lycopsid tree: can touch
9. Small lycopsid tree: can touch
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 T. rex tooth
 T. rex: large object so visitors with limited sight
may be able to see it
 Ichthyosaur skeleton and model hanging from
ceiling: can’t touch but large, so visitors with
limited sight may be able to see it
 Pliosaur model hanging from ceiling: can’t touch
but large, so visitors with limited sight may be
able to see it
 Upper Jurassic Ammonites:
44. Ammonite Titanites giganteus (the fossil
not
behind glass)
Floor 1
Animal Life 1
 Handling table
Revealing History spaces
 Nothing to touch
Ancient Egypt
Daily Life (1)
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 Part of a sandstone clustered pillar
 A Basalt Stela (an inscribed stone slab)
Death and the Afterlife (2)
 Large, round-bodied, stone vase
 Part of a kneeling figure
 Reconstructed head of Asru
 Statue of Bes
 Granite statue of a baboon
 Granite head of the lioness-headed Sekhmet
Manchester Gallery
 Maharajah (skeleton), male Asian elephant: can’t
touch, but very large so visitors with limited sight
may be able to see it
Living Cultures
 Collective Conversations screens: sighted
assistance needed to choose options from menu
of recorded narratives.
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Archery
 Screen (sand): sighted assistance needed to
choose options from menu of recorded narratives.
Mezzanine
 Solar system: can’t touch, but visitors with limited
sight may be able to see it
Floor 2
Money
 Rubbing/drawing table
Mediterranean Archaeology
 Altar to ‘Fortune the Preserver’, Roman, 2nd-3rd
century AD, from Manchester
 Altar to an unknown deity, Roman, probably 3rd
century AD, from Manchester
Animal Life 2
 Sperm whale: can’t touch, but very large so
visitors with limited sight may be able to see it