Manchester Museum

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MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM - 2009/07/16: The museum is owned by the University of Manchester. It is one of the top university museums in the United Kingdom. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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If you're into natural history and social science, this extraordinary museum is the place for you. It has galleries devoted to archaeology, archery, botany, ethnology, geology, numismatics and zoology. The real treat here, though, is the Egyptology section and its collection of mummies.

One particularly interesting part of the museum is devoted to the work of Dr Richard Neave, who has rebuilt faces of people who have been dead for more than 3000 years; his pioneering techniques are now used in criminal forensics.

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