To complement the permanent displays, the Sedgwick Museum curates temporary exhibitions. These include collaborations with researchers and artists and also reflect relevant news stories, events and anniversaries.
- Everest at 70: A rock from the roof of the world (Opened May 2023)
- UCM Y10 Work Experience: Students from Coleridge Community College and North Cambridge Academy (Opened July 2023)
- Arthropleura: The World's Largest Millipede (Opened February 2022)
- Gravel Hunters: A co-curated display of local gravel fossils (Opened December 2021)
- Deep Earth Explorers: Revealing the mysteries of our planet's interior (Opened February 2020)
Online Exhibitions
- We Need More Teeth: Tyrannosaurus rex at the Sedgwick Museum
- Lockdown creativity: Recreating an iconic scene of Jurassic sea life
- Being Seen and Heard: Women in the Sedgwick Museum Archive
- Dawn of the Wonderchicken: Discovering the world's oldest modern bird fossil
Previous Exhibitions
- David Stalling: Earth Traces (October 2023)
- Bicentenary of The Cambridge Philosophical Society: 200 Years of Geologist's contributions (April 2019)
- Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analyses of Ediacaran communities (March 2018)
- Geology from the Oceans: Unlocking the history of climate change from the bottom of the sea (October 2018)
- We need more teeth: Tyrannosaurus rex at the Sedgwick Museum (February 2018)
- Stripping the Earth Bare: William Smith's 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales (August 2015)
- For Club and Country: Geologists, The Sedgwick Club and World War 1 (February 2015)
- Ediacaran Enigmas: Resolving the fossil record of early animals (March 2013)
- Mountains to Microscope: A new window on Cambrian life (April 2013)
- Minerals, Metals and Medals: Celebrating the 2012 Olympic Games (July 2012)