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It is one of two museums operated by the local borough council , along with the Captain Cook birthplace in Stewart Park. As of May the museum remains closed for renovations. At its official opening on 1 July , the museum's theme was the natural sciences. Since then, galleries of the local Linthorpe Art Pottery , work by Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser , and Middlesbrough's history have eclipsed this early theme.

Remnants of the original Victorian and Edwardian collection of taxidermied, plinth-mounted animals are in the Nelson Room; various taxidermied exotic birds in their original cases with decorative painted backgrounds and colourful and large birds' eggs.

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The Dorman Museum has eight permanent display galleries and a changing temporary exhibition spaces on the ground floor. Small exhibitions also take place within the ground floor corridor. Access to the upper floor is by the main staircase or lift. The original collection included items such as a stuffed and mounted eagle owl in the act of taking a hare; a stuffed lion in a " rampant " pose; and many birds' eggs, butterflies, and insects preserved under glass and in drawers, with covers over the glass to avoid the effects of light on the specimens.

One particular specimen case contained a model, at least times normal size, of a human head louse. At about the same time, the museum possessed a fossil of an ichthyosaur.