The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, aka the University Museum, is, er, a Natural History museum on Parks Rd. As well as exhibits, it has lecture theatres used on undergraduates and some research attachments. It also contains the Pitt Rivers Museum? (<http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/>), an anthropology museum.
It's got some quite interesting exhibits, including (Ob SF) some archaeological remains from the future. And some meatspace models of the computer-generated dinos from Walking With Dinosaurs.
Also a large collection of cockroaches on the gallery, who may or may not be discussing world domination plans. Of a certain interest to those like me with an amateur's interest in astrophysics is the scale representation of the Sun, Earth, and Moon (N.B. I have no idea whether they are actually to scale, but the museum says so and that's good enough for me -WJR), which positions a 'globe sized' brass coloured sphere as the sun on one gallery and on the other side of the museum in line of sight an incredibly tiny Earth and moon in a glass case.
The museum was the first scientific building on Parks Rd; it was the nucleus of the science area which now sprawls for leagues in each direction.
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