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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
Living Worlds
 Handling table (daily between 11am and 3pm)
 Staff have tablets with smartphone app on - sighted
assistance needed to choose options from menu of
recorded narratives.
Nature Discovery
 Part of a tree trunk
 Large shell
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Ancient Egypt
Death and the Afterlife
 Handling table (daily between 11am and 3pm)
 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
 Handling table (daily between 11am and 3pm)
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
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
 Handling table (daily between 11am and 3pm)
Animal Life 2
 Sperm whale: can’t touch, but very large so visitors with
limited sight may be able to see it