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1 Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology 4 Museum of Classical Archaeology Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA www.maa.cam.ac.uk www.classics.cam.ac.uk

2 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences 5 Whipple Museum of the History of Science Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH www.sedgwickmuseum.org.uk www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple

3 University Museum of Zoology 6 The Polar Museum Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1ER www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum Why not also visit… • Kettle’s Yard Castle Street www.kettlesyard.co.uk • Street www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk • Cambridge University Botanic Garden Bateman Street www.botanic.cam.ac.uk “Some of the artefacts in the museums were so extraordinary • Cambridge and County Folk Museum 2/3 Castle Street www.folkmuseum.org.uk • Cambridge Museum of Technology Cheddars Lane www.museumoftechnology.com that they could have supplied at least a week of cross-curricular • New Hall Art Collection Huntingdon Road www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk opportunities.” Admission charges apply to some of these venues

Thanks to pupils of Linton Heights and Linton (CE) Infants schools for their help.

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All these resources are FREE but they do need to be booked in advance. Most loan boxes are suitable for Key Stage 2/3 but can be also used for other Key Stages. Refundable deposits may be requested for some loans. Please contact the individual museums for more details. Don’t forget we also offer FREE museum visits for school groups. This shows you what is available from October 2010 but the list is growing! If you are interested in working more closely with us to develop a loans box or other resource tailored to a particular subject, do please get in touch with the appropriate museum.

Location & Contact Details Loan Boxes Online Resources

MUSEUM OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Greek Legacy

[email protected] I Came, I Saw, I Conquered – The Roman Empire 01223 767044 www.classics.cam.ac.uk

MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY & General Archaeology ANTHROPOLOGY Egyptians [email protected] 01223 764769 Tudors www.maa.cam.ac.uk Textiles Artefacts from different cultures & other periods also available.

THE POLAR MUSEUM Packing for the Poles : how explorers stay Historic Polar Images, 1845 –1982 from the Scott warm in world’s coldest places KS2/3 Polar Research Institute: [email protected] www.freezeframe.ac.uk/home/home 01223 336562 Polar Gourmets : human nutrition in www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/ extreme environments KS3/4 Explore the Polar Museum collections online: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/ Articles relating to the life and expeditions of Sir Ernest Shackleton: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/shackleton/

SEDGWICK MUSEUM OF EARTH SCIENCES Fossils (two loan boxes) with identification and Tools of the Trade handling notes for teachers. Experience life as a geologist aboard HMS Beagle [email protected] This Flash interactive helps you to find out more 01223 766079 Rocks (two loan boxes) with identification and about the tools that Darwin used to map the www.sedgwickmuseum.org.uk handling notes for teachers. locations he visited and to analyse and identify the geological specimens he collected: www. A new education website including lots of Sea shore Fossils -identification and sorting sedgwickmuseum.org/darwin/darwin_tools.html classroom-based activity ideas for teachers will activity with notes for teachers. launch in March 2011. Exploring the Wenlock Reef Story loan boxes for Early Years . two boxes of This has information about one of the famous fossil Please contact the handling objects, tactile and creative stimuli, collections in the Museum including a searchable Museum Education resources and notes for teachers. museum catalogue and high quality pictures of Officer for many of the fossils: www.sedgwickmuseum.org/ further Tailor-made requests are also possible from the wenlock/index.html information. handling collections of rocks and minerals. Image Gallery Large images of fossils, dinosaurs and minerals for use in your classroom activities, handouts and slideshows: www.sedgwickmuseum.org/ education/resources.html

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY Adaption: birds’ skulls and feet illustrating their www.museum.zoo.ac.uk adaptations for different lifestyles. Go to Young Zoologist Club page for animal [email protected] profiles, puzzles and other resources. 01223 769355 Adaption: sets of teeth illustrating feeding www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk adaptions in different groups. Go to Visit Us page for guides to different animal groups. Tailor-made requests also possible from handling Go to the Collections and Archives pages for collections of skeletons and invertebrates. further information about their collections.

New loans are being developed. Look out for further details on our website.

WHIPPLE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE Science of Sound: coming soon! The website has several relevant sections for teachers including: Explore website lets you [email protected] Look out for further details on discover more about astronomical instruments, 01223 330906 our website. microscopes, teaching models and acoustical www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple apparatus in the Museums collection: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/explore/

Gallery Challenge lets you choose your own objects from the Whipple's collection, design your own case and research and write your own Museum labels! www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/ gallerychallenge/