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.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Look out on our website and social media for news of upcoming new exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
- Breaking New Ground: Celebrating Past, Present and Future Women Earth Scientists at the University of Cambridge (Opened 24th August 2024)
- The Butterfly Effect: a climate change installation by The Kaleidoscope Collective, Parkside Community College (Opened May 2024)
- A historian surrounded by rocks: a University of Essex work placement by Sam Robertson (Opened May 2024)
- Collecting Carboniferous plants from Graissessac in Southern France: a community cabinet by Sacha Ottevanger (Opened April 2024)
- So you want to be a palaeontologist?: a pop-up museum display (Opened September 2023)
- 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)
- Deep Earth Explorers: Revealing the mysteries of our planet's interior (Opened February 2020)
Online Exhibitions
- Two Islands: Changing landscapes across time This online exhibition is currently undergoing maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience
- 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
- Lithic Entanglements: Rona Lee (Opened 14th June 2024)
- David Stalling: Earth Traces (October 2023)
- Gravel Hunters: A co-curated display of local gravel fossils (December 2021)
- 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)