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  • Six people—three adults and three teens—explore a museum gallery with wooden cases displaying natural specimens like starfish.
  • A musician plays the trumpet in Sladen's Study gallery. A row of specimen jars is in the foreground.

Sladen's Study

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Sladen’s Study showcases the collection of Percy Sladen (1849–1900). Percy dedicated his life to the study of echinoderms – a group of sea creatures including starfish, sea urchins and their relatives. He was a world expert.

Percy amassed a huge collection of books and over 5,000 specimens from all over the world, including microscope slides and fossils. Following his death, Percy’s wife, Constance, donated his collection to RAMM. It is thought to be the largest and most comprehensive echinoderm collection in the UK outside the Natural History Museum, London.

You can learn more about Percy Sladen, including his involvement with the voyage of HMS Challenger, on RAMM's collections site.

Close-up captions: RAMM’s digital close-up captions enable you to use your own mobile device to read the information that is on display beside each object. Follow the link for the close-up captions of Sladen’s Study.

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