© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Lucky Pig Toy

This toy pig is a survivors of the Titanic. Inside the pig is a music box which would have played a tune when you wound its tail.

© Manx National Heritage

Giant deer skeleton

This is a skeleton of a Giant Deer stag and would have roamed the open tundra landscape of the British Isles towards the end of the last Ice Age.

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Acquired with the assistance of Heritage Lottery Fund; Eyal Ofer Family Foundation; The Monument Trust; The Art Fund; The Crosthwaite Bequest; The Sackler Foundation; Sir Harry Djanogly CBE; The Hartnett Conservation Trust; Sheila Richardson and Anthony Nixon; James and Clare Kirkmans; The Leathersellers' Company; Gapper Charitable Trust; Genevieve Muinzer and others; Image courtesy of Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd

‘Portrait of a Large Dog’ (Dingo)

Stubbs the painter had never seen a Dingo, he based his painting on descriptions of animals from sailors and scientists who travelled to Australia in the 18th Century.

Public Domain

Piggy Bank

Piggy banks were in the form of a pig as the fat animal evoked associations with wealth. This piggy bank isThis 500 year old.