We offer a range of public activities throughout the year. Our temporary exhibitions include displays of current research, work by artists, and our community cabinet displays co-curated by visitors, students and community groups.
Events and Activities
Meet the Earth Scientist
Every Wednesday (24th July - 28th August)
10am - 1pm
Free
Drop in and meet an Earth Scientist from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Get hands on with fun, family activities relating to their research, and find out what it's like to work as an Earth scientist.
For further details about each event, see here
This Wednesday 24th July, meet Dr Elsa Amsellem who researches how planets form. Can you sort out Earth rocks from meteorites and complete a challenge set by Elsa? Find out from Elsa what it's like to work as a scientist who studies planets.
Staff Favourites Tours
Monday 29th July, 1pm - 1.30pm
Free
Come and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.
Giant deer, sea-urchins, fossil fish teeth, plesiosaurs with controversial tails... just some of the specimens on display that our staff can't wait to discuss with you. Beware, their enthusiasm is infectious!
Drop into our shop to book your free place on the tour.
We also have regular fossil handling activities on Saturdays and in school holidays, please do phone (01223 333456) to check what's on when you plan to visit.
Exhibitions
Rona Lee: Lithic Entanglements
Artist Dr Rona Lee has created two new works, informed by research in the Sedgwick Museum’s archives. These installations challenge the conventional way minerals are displayed in the Museum.
14th June 2024 - 6th July 2024
Now extended until 14th September 2024
Free, drop-in
'Recent understandings of the impact of human activity on the systems of the planet have highlighted the ways in which nature and humans are deeply entangled, calling the often extractive character of our relationship to the Earth into question'.
Taking these ideas as her starting point, artist Dr Rona Lee has created two new works, informed by research in the Sedgwick Museum’s archives and installed in the Whewell Mineral Gallery, that challenge the ways in which we normally view the items displayed there.
A Modern Lapidary a video work, back projected through one of the free-standing cases, animates mid-century scientific photographs of minerals, altering our perception of the samples within as ‘dead' matter. Elsewhere, in An Extractive Index, digitally collaged photographs of geological field trips are laminated on to the glass, inviting reflection on the social and environmental relationships which these reveal.
Current exhibitions
All current exhibitions at the Sedgwick Museum, please click on each image for more information.
Online Exhibitions
