Giant deer, fossil fish teeth, the rocks that built Cambridge... just some of the specimens on display that our staff can't wait to discuss with you. Beware, their enthusiasm is infectious!

Ages 12+, drop into our shop to reserve your free place on the tour.
 

Giant deer, fossil fish teeth, the rocks that built Cambridge... just some of the specimens on display that our staff can't wait to discuss with you. Beware, their enthusiasm is infectious!

Ages 12+, drop into our shop to reserve your free place on the tour.

 

Giant deer, fossil fish teeth, the rocks that built Cambridge... just some of the specimens on display that our staff can't wait to discuss with you. Beware, their enthusiasm is infectious!

Ages 12+, drop into our shop to reserve your free place on the tour.
 

Giant deer, fossil fish teeth, the rocks that built Cambridge... just some of the specimens on display that our staff can't wait to discuss with you. Beware, their enthusiasm is infectious!

Ages 12+, drop into our shop to reserve your free place on the tour.

 

 

What is an orrery? Why is the clock chiming 13? Why would you collect and display a set of plaster horses’ teeth, some green spectacles and several hundred pocket calculators? 

Join us for a tour of the Whipple’s collection in 10 objects, featuring spectacular instruments, fascinating scientific stories, and links to some of Cambridge’s most famous names.

 

Meet at the reception point in the Main Gallery.

From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

Explore the Polar Museum with one of the experts! Staff from the museum will offer a brief history of the Scott Polar Research Institute and take you on a mini tour of some of their favourite objects in the collection. 

Explore the Polar Museum with one of the experts! Staff from the museum will offer a brief history of the Scott Polar Research Institute and take you on a mini tour of some of their favourite objects in the collection. 

Explore the Polar Museum with one of the experts! Staff from the museum will offer a brief history of the Scott Polar Research Institute and take you on a mini tour of some of their favourite objects in the collection. 

 

Join us for an expert guided tour of the Museum. Why is there a fin whale skeleton in Cambridge? What can we learn from our Dodo skeleton? What did Darwin collect here and on the Voyage of the Beagle, and what can these collections tell us about him and is ideas on evolution? Hear these stories and more on an expert guided tour around the Museum of Zoology.

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