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Plan Your Visit

Plan Your Visit overview
    Access How to Find Us FAQs Gallery Plan

What's On

What's On overview
    Events Exhibitions

Collections

Collections overview
    Woodwardian Collection Palaeontology Collection Archive Mineral Collection Petrology Collections John Watson Building Stones Collection Research Enquiries Collections Research Centre

Learning

Learning overview
    Plan a school or group visit Book a school or group visit Loan Boxes Students and Studying

Support Us

Support Us overview
    Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

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    Volunteer With Us

About Us

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    • Previous Exhibitions

Previous Exhibitions

Historic photograph of a two-tier passenger boat on a river, crowded with soldiers in uniform on the upper deck and civilians including women in wide-brimmed hats below, with a bridge and townhouses in the background
  • Arthropleura: The World's Largest Millipede (Opened February 2022)
  • Deep Earth Explorers: Revealing the mysteries of our planet's interior (Opened February 2020)
  • The Butterfly Effect: a climate change installation by The Kaleidoscope Collective, Parkside Community College (Opened May 2024)
  • 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)

Museum Opening Times

Opening hours:

Monday - Friday: 10am - 5pm

Saturday: 10am - 4pm

Sunday: Closed

Admission Free

No booking required (except groups)

 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

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Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EQ
Email:sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk
Phone:01223 333456

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