Manchester museum is a university museum. Which tends to mean a collection of things that 19th century collectors thought were collectable. It also has a natural history collection. The closest equivalent elsewhere would probably be the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. On paper this looks quite hopeful for Wikipedians but in reality is means a collection that overlaps with other museums that have better collections. When looking for photos there isn’t that much we don’t already have better coverage of. There are a few individual objects that like the Sebek-khu Stele have articles but these are rare.
This rarity however the museum is probably a good choice for wikipedians looking for ideas. The skeleton of Maharaja the Elephant meets you in the entrance area and is one of a number of animals from the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens who’s remains are now in the museum’s collections. Quite a few of whom are notable.
Many of the museum’s mummies have been studied enough for biographies to be written (although the museum using a wordpress blog for much of its material complicates things there). There are a number of fossils where we don’t have articles on their genus (Palaeosmilia Murchisoni for example). Some of the historic (and not so historic locations) of excavations could be expanded. The Riqqeh tombs over in egypt but more locally (to Manchester) the Alderley Sandhills Project.
Probably of most interest to a Manchester based wikipedian who wants an ongoing project but doesn’t want to deal too much with local history.
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