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T O UNIVERSITY N BOTANICAL GARDENS The idea for the R Institute followed D Debenham to Cambridge, where The Polar Museum he and several other Scott Polar Research Institute scientists from the University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER expedition came 01223 336540 to write up their The Polar Museum aims to make its collections available to results. Following his everybody. Wheelchair access is available via a ramp. appointment to the University’s first Chair of Geography in With advance notice we can provide access to our handling 1919, Debenham’s continued lobbying finally brought about collections and we can offer an audio guide for blind and the establishment of the Institute in 1920. The building that partially sighted visitors. Please contact us if you have access now houses the Institute and its Polar Museum was completed requirements, we will be happy to make arrangements in 1934. Then, as now, it was home to polar researchers and to accommodate you. growing collections of polar artefacts, photographs and written materials. Check the Polar Museum website at www.spri.cam.ac.uk/ museum for information about the latest exhibitions and events or to sign up to the Museum’s email newsletter. The Polar Museum is open 10.00 – 4.00 Tuesday to Saturday and on Bank Holidays. We close for up to two weeks over the Christmas period.

The Polar Museum presents highlights from our library, archive, museum and picture library collections. It also showcases active research in the Institute on the natural and social sciences of the polar regions.

Museum opening hours: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 – 4.00 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum Inside the Polar Museum

With hundreds of objects on display, from beautiful clothing The earliest known In the nineteenth century and artwork by communities living in the Arctic to poignant evidence of humans in there was intensive artefacts from the early days of British Antarctic exploration, the Arctic is from 40,000 European exploration of there’s plenty to see at the Polar Museum. years ago in Western the Arctic. What began Siberia. Our displays offer as a project dedicated The Scott Polar Research a window into life in to mapping and scientific Institute, where the Museum the Arctic, with kayaks, investigation became a is based, was founded in home technologies, major search effort after memory of Captain Scott artworks and more Sir John Franklin and his and his men. It is very from communities two fully crewed ships fitting that his bust, cast across the Arctic. went missing in the by his wife Kathleen Scott, 1840s. overlooks our sculpture garden.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION MAIN MUSEUM SPACE ENTRANCE

LECTURE The building that houses THEATRE the Museum was built in SHOP 1934 specifically for polar SIDE ENTRANCE research. Beautiful maps of the Arctic and Antarctic are just some of the clues to the building’s polar purpose that can be found in the Museum’s Memorial Hall.

By the early twentieth century the Antarctic was the last major unexplored continent on Earth. Photographs taken by We’re still making discoveries Captain Scott and about the Arctic and others are cared for Antarctic, and how they by our Picture Library. affect the rest of the world. They complement the Researchers at the Scott Museum’s collections Polar Research Institute study of food, clothing all things polar, from ice and scientific and climate to politics instruments and penguins. taken to Antarctica by early expeditions.

Museum opening hours: Museum opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 – 4.00 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 – 4.00