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Station Road entrance Finding us is easy 9 Cambridge University All 11 museums & collections featured in 11 Botanic Garden this leaflet are close to the city centre. If you’re planning to visit Cambridge by car, we recommend you Park & Ride. Find out more at www..gov. uk/transport/around/parkandride Right on your doorstep, all these brilliant days out… 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kettle’s Yard Museum of Museum of Classical Cambridge and County The Polar Museum Street Castle Street Archaeology and Archaeology Folk Museum Lensfield Road 01223 332900 01223 748100 Anthropology Sidgwick Avenue Castle Street 01223 336540 www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk www.kettlesyard.co.uk Downing Street 01223 335153 Tel: 01223 355159 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum FREE entry FREE entry 01223 333516 www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum www.folkmuseum.org.uk FREE entry Open Tues to Sat 10-5 Gallery open Tues to Sun 1-5 www.maa.cam.ac.uk FREE entry Adults £3.50 / Concessions £2 Open Tues to Sat 10-4/ Closed on Sun & Bank holiday Mondays 12-5 House open Tues to Sun 2-4 FREE entry Open Mon to Fri 10-5 Children (6-12 years)£1, 1 free Bank Holiday weekends (extended in the summer) Open Tues to Sat 10.30-4.30 Sat 10-1 (term-time only). Schools child with every full paying adult Housing almost half a million NB. Parts of the house and gallery Closed on Bank Holidays and groups must book in advance Open Tues to Sat 10.30-5/ Sun & If you have ever wondered what it objects and hailed as ‘One of the may be closed during building of Bank holiday Mondays 2-5 is like to travel to the Polar Regions great treasure houses of Britain’ a new education wing from April Experience the diversity of people Often referred to as the ‘Ark’, the Closed between Christmas Eve and or why they are so important to by Britain’s Best Museums and 2012 but there will be collection and cultures from around the museum is one of Cambridge’s New Year’s Day inclusive the future of our world, take a Galleries , the Fitz has an amazing related ‘Artist in focus’ displays and world. Some of the highlights hidden gems. It houses one of the trip to the Polar Museum. From variety of beautiful objects and works by contemporary artists. are Pacific material collected on largest collections of plaster casts A vibrant gem of a museum which penguins to polar bears, sleeping art from around the world. See Captain Cook’s voyages of of Greek and Roman statues in brings the colourful history of bags to sextants, Inuit art to everything from Egyptian coffins Kettle’s Yard is the beautiful exploration and the 14-metre- the world. Originally gathered in Cambridge to life! Each themed explorers’ diaries - come and find to Impressionist masterpieces; former home of Jim Ede, once a high totem pole from Canada. the late19th century, this collection room in this 17th century building out about exploration, science illuminated manuscripts to curator at the Tate Gallery. Due to an ambitious programme remains a marvellous way to is filled with intriguing objects, and survival at the extreme ends Renaissance sculpture; rare coins It houses a collection of 20th of modernisation, the museum experience these masterpieces some dating back to the 1600s. of the earth. Discover the North to Oriental arts. Enjoy international century art including works by will be closed until early summer of ancient art. There is a regular Discover the fascinating world of and South Poles just 10 minutes exhibitions, events, music and Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, 2012. Please check the website programme of family holiday the fens and its folklore, and walk from the city centre. workshops year round, as well as Alfred Wallis, Ben and Winifred for updates on the re-opening or activities, and a schools & colleges explore Cambridge home life, fine shopping in the Courtyard Nicholson, Christopher Wood and call us before your visit. programme including talks, tours, childhood and trades through a Shop and refreshments in the Café. Henri Gaudier-Breszka. Next door teaching and storytelling. range of interactive displays. is a gallery that presents The museum offers temporary contemporary and modern art exhibitions, events and talks exhibitions. There is a wide throughout the year alongg with programme of events including a shop specialising in uniquenique concerts, talks and workshops. locally-made gifts.

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7 8 9 10 11 Sedgwick Museum of Whipple Museum Cambridge University Cambridge Museum of Museum of Zoology Families & Children Earth Sciences of the History of Science Botanic Garden Technology Downing Street at the Museum s Downing Street Free School Lane Gates at Brookside and Station Rd Riverside, Cambridge 01223 336650 01223 333456 01223 330906 01223 336265 01223 368650 (answering machine) www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk Whenever you visit, look www.sedgwickmuseum.org www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple www.botanic.cam.ac.uk www.museumoftechnology.com FREE entry out for our free trails, explorer FREE entry FREE entry Adults £4.50 (concessions and Adults £3.50 non-steam days, Open Mon to Fri 10–4.45 kits and hands on activities Open Mon to Fri 10–1 & 2–5 Open Mon to Fri 12.30–4.30 gift aid entry available); £5.50 steam days/ Concessions Sat 11–4 for children and families. Sat 10–4/ Closed on Bank Holidays Closed on Bank Holidays accompanying children (0-16) £2 non-steam days, £3.50 steam Closed some Bank Holidays We also run clubs, weekend are free days/ Children (age 7 to16) £1.50 and school holiday activities As you walk through the Here you will find a fascinating Open daily at 10; non-steam days, £3 steam days With its spectacular whale skeleton and provide online resources Sedgwick Museum’s galleries, you array of scientific instruments April to Sept10-6/ Feb, March & Oct Open Easter to Oct, Sun 2-5 hanging over the entrance, the to use at home. These include: pass through more than 500 dating from the Middle Ages to 10-5/ Jan, Nov & Dec 10-4 Nov to Easter, first Sunday in the Museum of Zoology is home to a million years of the history of life the present day. Cambridge has month 2-5 huge variety of recent and fossil ฀฀฀฀฀฀ on Earth. Highlights include a long been a centre for scientific Discover plants from all over the animals. With intricately beautiful Saturdays (Fitzwilliam) world in 40 acres of beautiful 125,000 year old hippo found in work. Microscopes, telescopes Best known for its landmark shells, a comprehensive collection ฀฀฀฀฀ gardens and glasshouses, less Cambridgeshire, giant marine and laboratory equipment chimney which towers over of British birds, and many large Zoologists Club (Zoology) reptiles, minerals, rocks, dinosaurs, demonstrate the vitality of past than a mile south of the city centre. Riverside, the museum is home skeletons of mammals, the ฀฀฀฀฀฀฀฀ fossil sea creatures dating back science, while the collections of Founded in 1846 by Professor to a fascinating range of locally displays trace the evolution of Fun (Botanic Garden) hundreds of millions of years, pocket calculators and slide rules John Henslow, mentor to Charles produced technology. Massive animal life. Regularly changing and an exhibition on ‘Darwin reflect how scientific instruments Darwin, this heritage-listed pumping engines and intricate free self-led trails and activities ฀฀฀฀ the Geologist’. are important to us all. landscape is a treasure trove of scientific instruments all jostle are always available for families. (Classical Archaeology) over 8,000 plant species, including for your attention. The museum’s Events include art and photo- ฀฀฀฀ nine national collections and a graphic exhibitions, talks and home in Cambridge’s Victorian ฀฀฀฀฀฀ wonderful arboretum. Highlights pumping station is an exhibit family fun days. include the Winter Garden, the in itself. Back in the 1890s it ฀฀฀฀ Rock Garden, historic Systematic provided an ingenious solution ฀฀฀฀฀฀ Beds, the Dry Garden and the to the town’s two stinking (Whipple) new Cory Lawn landscape. The problems: rubbish and sewage. magnificent Glasshouse Range is We run a full programme of During the University’s Science home to diverse habitats ranging events throughout the year Festival and Festival of Ideas from arid lands of architectural including steam days when we there are always special cactus to flamboyant tropical light the boiler and our sleeping events at the museums, for rainforests. The Garden hosts a giant engines come back to life. details visit www.cam.ac.uk range of events, family activities, And don’t miss our 2012 tours and lifelong learning ‘Summer at the Museums’ courses. Young explorer backpacks family events calendar which are available to borrow from the will be available to download ticket offices – perfect for all in July from our website. budding Darwins. For full details visit www.cam.ac.uk/museums JoinJ Cambridge UniversityU Museums @CamUnivMuseums@

Left: Children with iconic chimney, Cambridge Museum of Technology; Urania prometheus , Iguanodon skeleton, View through gallery, Main Gallery, 14th Century English Astrolabe, Darwin’s Egg, Spotted Tinamou (Nothura maculosa), Sedgwick Museum Whipple Museum The Glasshouse Range, Botanic Garden Museum of Zoology