Kids favourite museum artefacts

Children have nominated their favourite museum pieces in Britain's 32 national museums and galleries.

The National Museum Directors' Conference in conjunction with the Institute for Public Policy Research collected nominations from 11-18 year olds around the country.

Here is the full list of artefacts they nominated.

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Science Museum Stephenson's Rocket, Apollo 10 Command Module, Big Machine - the hands-on gallery.

Tate Modern Lobster Telephone by Salvador Dali, The Weather Project installation by Olafur Eliasson, Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein.

Tate Britain A Bigger Splash by David Hockney, Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, Cold Dark Matter by Cornelia Parker.

National Museums Liverpool Ben Johnson's Liverpool Cityscape, Mandy Mandala by Patricia Lee, Wolf's head in the Seized! gallery.

Imperial War Museum Jack Cornwell's VC, Protect and Survive - propaganda films.

Royal Armouries Museum Turkish turban helmet, Elephant Armour, Hall of Steel

National Museums Scotland The Qurneh Burial, Dolly the sheep, the Maiden.

Natural History Museum Diplodocus skeleton, the dodo, Imilac Meteorite

The Ashmolean Egyptian mummy, Powhatan's mantle, Guy Fawkes' lantern.

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Graeco-Roman mummy, The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown, Dominicans in Feathers by Henry Stacey Marks.

National Army Museum Napoleon's Marengo, Florence Nightingale's lamp

V&A Glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly, Swarm chandelier by Zaha Hadid, The Bed of Ware, Tippoo's Tiger

British Library Captain Scott's Diary, Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, JRR Tolkien reading from The Lord of the Rings.

National Galleries of Scotland The Feast of Herod by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Three Oncologists by Ken Currie, Vulcan by Eduardo Paolozzi.

Tyne & Wear Museums Vicki, Lynsey and Adele, Ponteland High School, Northumberland by Rineke Dijkstra, Stranger VII by Lynn Chadwick, Seated Woman: Thin Neck by Henry Moore.

Museum of London Docklands Iron gibbet cage, consol shelter, whale jawbones.

Museum of London Gold coins, medieval poulaine shoes, false dice.

Royal Navy Submarine Museum HMS Alliance, Holland 1 - the Navy's first submarine, Jolly Roger flags.

Sir John Soane's Museum A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth, The Sarcophagus of King Seti I, the planes in the picture room.

National Museum Wales The mammoths, the wall of skulls, Running Away with the Hairdresser by Kevin Sinnott.

National Media Museum Wallace and Gromit.

National Railway Museum The Mallard.

The National Archives The Domesday Book, mummified rat, telegram from the Titanic.

British Museum Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes, Sutton Hoo helmet, Lewis chessmen.

Royal Airforce Museum The relief package drop zone interactive exhibit, sit-in Jet Provost, Hot Spots interactive exhibit.

National Maritime Museum Golden nimcha, interactive bridge simulator, 28-inch telescope, the Meridian Line.