The Eton College Natural History Museum is a museum of natural science and history belonging to the prestigious university of the same name. The museum was opened in 1875 to house the Thackeray Collection of British Birds, in turn donated to the college in 1850. The museum has been in its current location, an impressive Victorian building, since 1895. At present the collection has over 17,000 objects, the most of them on display. The museum is dedicated to the natural world and its inhabitants. Here there are large collections of fossils from the pre-Cambrian era onwards, with casts of dinosaurs such as Allosaurus, Camarosaurus and Iguanodon, the Thackeray collection of British birds, the Hincks Herbarium with 4,000 pressed and dried plants, Newall Collection of Birds 'Eggs, over 1,400 eggs collected at the end of the 19th century. Among the animal specimens are a two-headed cat and a four-legged duck, a Kakapo, a New Zealand nocturnal parrot, a platypus.