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We also run clubs, weekend and Drop in to the Sedgwick Museum to come face-to- school holiday activities and provide online face with a dinosaur, follow Captain Cook’s voyages resources to use at home. These include: to the Americas and read inspiring diaries from Scott’s Polar explorations. Admire the genius of • Fitz Kits & Family First Saturdays Monet, Titian, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth at the Fitzwilliam Museum through our world-class collections of art and • Young Zoologists Club sculpture. Walk in Darwin’s footsteps, see his at the Museum of Zoology microscope and examine the animals, plants and fossils he studied – all at University of Cambridge • Backpacks & First Saturday Fun Museums. Elsewhere in the city, at Cambridge at Cambridge University Botanic Garden Museum of Technology and the Museum of Cambridge, discover fascinating local history • Discovery Boxes through the lives of the people who have lived and at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences worked in Cambridge; and get hands on and make your own discoveries at Cambridge Science Centre. • Gallery Play Boxes and Trails at the Museum of Classical Archaeology All of these museums and collections are within easy walking distance of the city centre. Every one offers • Studio Sundays & Props Box full or partial wheelchair access and, best of all, most at Kettle’s Yard are completely free for the whole family. • Workshops and Holiday Trails at The Polar Museum • Gallery Challenge online at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science Talks, walks and special events In addition to a great day out, our museums and collections also offer a range of special activities. You can enjoy short talks, guided walks or extended courses on everything from For full details visit: Follow our blog: archaeology to plant science, art history www.cam.ac.uk/museums camunivmuseums.wordpress.com to photography, coral reefs to arctic Like Cambridge exploration. With evening openings @CamUnivMuseums and special events throughout the year f University Museums there is always something new and interesting to do. Connecting you to great days out... 1 2 3 4 5 6 Museum of Museum of Classical Fitzwilliam Museum Kettle’s Yard The Polar Museum Sedgwick Museum Archaeology and Archaeology Trumpington Street CB2 1RB Castle Street CB3 OAQ Lensfield Road CB2 1ER of Earth Sciences Anthropology Sidgwick Avenue CB3 9DA 01223 332900 01223 748100 01223 336540 Downing Street CB2 3EQ www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk www.kettlesyard.co.uk www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum Downing Street CB2 3DZ 01223 330402 01223 333456 www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum www.sedgwickmuseum.org 01223 333516 FREE entry FREE entry FREE entry Open Tues to Sat 10 – 5 Open Tues to Sun and Open Tues to Sat 10 – 4 www.maa.cam.ac.uk FREE entry FREE entry Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays 12 – 5 Bank Holiday ondays Open Bank Holiday Mondays M Open Mon to Fri FREE entry Open Mon to Fri 10 – 5, Sat 10 – 1 Closed Bank Holiday Saturdays Gallery 11.30 – 5 10 – 1 & 2 – 5 Open Tues to Sat 10.30 – 4.30 (University term-time only) House 12 – 5 Sat 10 – 4 Sundays 12 – 4.30 Closed Bank Holiday Mondays If you have ever wondered what it Open some bank holidays – Closed Bank Holiday Mondays Kettle’s Yard is the beautiful is like to travel to the Polar Regions One of Cambridge’s hidden gems, former home of Jim Ede, once or why they are so important to please check website for details the museum houses one of the a curator at the Tate Gallery. It the future of our world, take a largest collections of plaster casts houses a remarkable collection trip to The Polar Museum. From of Greek and Roman statues in the of 20th century art including penguins to polar bears, sleeping world. Originally gathered in the paintings by Christopher Wood, bags to sextants, Inuit art to late 19th century, this collection Ben and Winifred Nicholson, and explorers’ diaries – come and find remains a marvellous way to sculptures by Henry Moore and out about exploration, science experience these masterpieces Barbara Hepworth. At Kettle’s and survival at the extreme ends of ancient art. There is a regular Yard, artworks are positioned of the earth. Discover the North programme of family holiday alongside furniture, glass, ceramics and South Poles just 10 minutes activities, and a schools & colleges and natural objects, with the aim walk from the city centre. programme including talks, tours, of creating a harmonious whole. teaching and storytelling. Next door, the gallery presents contemporary and modern art exhibitions. There is a wide programme of events including concerts, talks and workshops. Housing almost half a million The Sedgwick Museum of Earth objects and hailed as ‘One of the Sciences is the oldest of the Explore the new ground-floor great treasure houses of Britain’ University of Cambridge museums, Cambridge gallery and discover by Britain’s Best Museums and having been established in 1728 as wonderful stories told through Galleries, the Fitzwilliam has the Woodwardian Museum. Since the collection. Experience the an amazing variety of beautiful then the collection has grown from diversity of people and cultures objects and art from around about 10,000 fossils, minerals and from around the world. Highlights the world. See everything from rocks, to at least 2 million. A walk to look out for are Pacific material Egyptian coffins to Impressionist through the museum will take collected on Captain Cook’s voyages masterpieces; illuminated you on a 4.5 billion year journey of exploration and the 14-metre- manuscripts to Renaissance through time, from the meteoritic high totem pole from Canada. sculpture; rare coins to Asian building blocks of planets, to the arts. Enjoy major exhibitions, thousands of fossils of animals and events, music and workshops plants that illustrate the evolution year round, as well as unique of life in the oceans, on land and gifts in the museum shop and in the air. refreshments in the café. 7 8 9 Other Museums in Cambridge Whipple Museum of Museum of Zoology Cambridge University 10 11 12 the History of Science Downing Street CB2 3EJ Botanic Garden Free School Lane CB2 3RH www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk Gates at Brookside Cambridge Cambridge Museum Museum of and Station Rd CB2 1JE 01223 330906 This museum is now closed for Science Centre of Technology Cambridge www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple redevelopment and will reopen 01223 336265 in 2016 www.botanic.cam.ac.uk FREE entry 18 Jesus Lane CB5 8BQ Cheddars Lane CB5 8LD Castle Street CB3 OAQ Open Mon to Fri 12.30 – 4.30 Throughout the museum’s Adults £4.50 (concessions 01223 967965 [email protected] 01223 355159 Closed Bank Holiday Mondays refurbishment work there will and gift aid entry available); www.cambridgesciencecentre.org www.museumoftechnology.com www.museumofcambridge.org.uk continue to be a programme accompanying children of public events for all to enjoy; (0-16) are free. Admission prices apply, Admission prices apply, Admission prices apply, details of these can be found Open daily at 10; see website for details see website for details see website for details on the museum’s website and April to Sept 10 – 6 During school term: Open Easter to Oct, Sun 2 – 5 Open Tues to Sat 10.30 – 5 Facebook page. You can also keep Feb, March & Oct 10 – 5 Tue – Fri 1 – 5, Sat & Sun 10 – 5, and for various special events Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays 2 – 5 up to date with the museum’s Jan, Nov & Dec 10 – 4 Closed Mondays Nov to Easter, first Sunday in development through our blogs During Cambridgeshire school the month 2 – 5 Inside the Cocoon, Animal Bytes holidays: Mon – Sun 10 – 5 and Store Stories. Some of the Open Bank Holiday Mondays fascinating objects and specimens from our collections will be Visit a place of scientific exploration displayed at other museums for families and adults.