Also up around Preston Village is a free museum named for the Victorian naturalist and collector Edward Thomas Booth.
With scores of taxidermied birds, preserved butterflies and other antique animal specimens, the museum is like a time capsule and is as much an exhibition about Victorian scientific customs as it is about the natural world
The attraction opened in this neo-Byzantine hall in 1874, and when Booth donated the museum to the city in 1890 he stipulated that his 300 dioramas must not be altered.
