Curiosities: readers share their favourites - in pictures

The over-stuffed walrus at Horniman Museum and Gardens is a star attraction, he even has his own Twitter account, delighting his followers with such posts as: 'There is nothing to fear. I have been merely quietly, creatively contemplating on my new iceberg. My very own "Room of One's Own".' Recommended by @acediscovery. Photograph: Horniman Museum and Gardens/PR

A pocketbook made from William Burke's skin. Burke was executed on 28 January 1829, then publically dissected. The date of Burke's death is inscribed on the back of the book. Item recommended by @tarasyoung
Photograph: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

A jar of moles on display at the Grant Museum, London. This curious specimen has an established Twitter profile. Follow @GlassJarOfMoles for 'adventure, science, equality, educational disadvantage, history & worms.' Photograph: © UCl, Grant Museum of Zoology/Matt Clayton/PR

Crocodile and egg from Hunterian Museum collection was recommended by @FelineInLove: 'I think they chose to put it in a very emotion-inducing position, having it strung by the jaw, neck to the side.' Photograph: Hunterian Museum/PR

The lizard with two tails, also part Hunterian Museum collection. It would seem that it is so well loved, it has been brought to life by this animation. Photograph: Hunterian Museum/PR

According to reader Joe Turner, the Curiosity exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate, was 'a special kind of awesome'. In particularly he recommended 'a box full of completely black photography slides, taken in various places around the world. Made me laugh uncontrollably.'
Photograph: Installation view from Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing at Turner Contemporary (2013). Stephen White/PR

Walter Potter's stuffed animals, placed in unusal situations, remains a popular curiosity with our readers: 'I remember going to visit Potter's Museum of Curiosities in Arundel as a boy' wrote one reader, 'stuffed guinea pigs playing cricket (in full whites), kittens having a teaparty, conjoined twin piglets in a jar...It was brillliant.' Recommended by IKNOWNOTHING Photograph: Graham French/Getty Images

Walter Potter's collection of taxidermy was displyed at the Potter's Museum of Curiosity in Bolventor, Cornwall until the collection was auctioned off in 2003. Photograph: Graham French/Getty Images

The many cabinets of curious specimens which fill Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, made it a popular choice. Recommended by many including kumano. Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

Tree Shrews on display at The Grant Museum of Zoology. Containing 67,000 specimens, it was started as a teaching collection in 1828. Reader, DrAngelicus, said: 'It retains something of the feel of a cabinet of curiosities with it's preserved cat and skeletal platypus among others.' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images