Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
England

Website

www.sedgwickmuseum.org

E-mail

sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Telephone

General enquiries

01223 333456

Fax

01223 333450

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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The Museum was built as a memorial to Adam Sedgwick and opened in 1904. The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences has its origins in the early 18th century, and includes specimens donated by important figures such as Charles Darwin and Mary Anning.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Mon to Fri 10.00-13.00 & 14.00-17.00
Sat 10.00-16.00

Closed: Bank Holiday Mondays, Christmas & Easter Period. Exact closure dates are listed on our website.

 Admission charges

Free admission

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities

University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
England

Website

www.sedgwickmuseum.org

E-mail

sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Telephone

General enquiries

01223 333456

Fax

01223 333450

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collections comprise more than 1.5 million specimens of fossils, rocks and minerals. Displays in the galleries show fossils from Cambridgeshire, dinosaurs, marine reptiles from the Jurassic, and fossils from millions of years of Earth history. A mineral gallery displays colourful specimens from around the world. Specimens not on display in the gallery (for example, rocks collected by Charles Darwin during the Voyage of the Beagle) are available for viewing - please call to arrange.

Collection details

Natural Sciences

Key artists and exhibits

  • fossils, dinosaurs, rocks, minerals, Sedgwick's collections, Darwin Collection, Harker Collection, local geology.

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
England

Website

www.sedgwickmuseum.org

E-mail

sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Telephone

General enquiries

01223 333456

Fax

01223 333450

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Collect

14 March 2009 — 13 March 2010 *on now

This project is a collaboration between Artist Catherine Watling and the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. It is principally about collections, collectors and the act of collecting. It explores, through the development of new artwork, the secrets that hide within a bank of objects, based on the collections focus of the Darwin the Geologist exhibition (opening July 2009) and the wider internationally-renowned rock and fossil collections at the Sedgwick Museum.

When

10am-4pm

Where

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Admission

Free

Darwin the Geologist

7 July 2009

A permanent exhibition telling the story of the rock specimens that Charles Darwin collected on the Beagle voyage and how he analysed and used them in his early scientific work.

When

From 10am

Where

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Admission

Free

University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
England

Website

www.sedgwickmuseum.org

E-mail

sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Telephone

General enquiries

01223 333456

Fax

01223 333450

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.

Cambridge Collectors Cards

2 May — 5 September 2009 *on now

Cambridge Collectors Cards are a set of 28 free trading cards featuring artefacts from the museums of the University of Cambridge and the Botanic Garden.
Each time you visit a one of the University museums, or the Botanic Garden, you can collect a pack of four cards to add to your collection.
See www.admin.cam.ac.uk/museums/cards/ for details.

Suitable for

  • Especially for children

When

10am-5pm

Where

University of Cambridge Museums & Botanic Garden

Admission

Free

Under the Floorboards

11 July 2009

A free, family friendly, 30 minute, street theatre-style show by Pif-Paf Arts about important 19th-century geology figures associated with the Sedgwick Museum. As part of the University's 800th anniversary celebrations, travel back in time with the timeoscope and go on a journey deep below the surface of the earth with Adam Sedgwick and Charles Darwin.
Performances will take place at 12:30pm and 2:30pm on the lawn area adjacent to the Sedgwick Museum. There is no need to book.

Suitable for

  • Family friendly
  • All ages

When

12:30-3pm

Where

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Admission

Free

University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
England

Website

www.sedgwickmuseum.org

E-mail

sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Telephone

General enquiries

01223 333456

Fax

01223 333450

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

Exploring the Wenlock Reef

http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/wenlock/index.html

This is a new online learning resource based on the Sedgwick Museum's collection of fossils from the 400 million year old Wenlock coral reef. The website includes lots of information about one of the famous fossil collections in the Museum, including a searchable museum catalogue and high quality pictures of many of the fossils. There is also a wealth of information about the creatures and the time and place in which they lived, with a focus on how earth scientists use detective work to collect and interpret evidence to piece these stories together.

 Face to face resources

Resources Pack

http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/resources.html

Everything you need to plan a group visit to the Sedgwick Museum.

Creator

  • Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

How to obtain

Click the link to download the PDF.

 Paper-based and downloads

Glossary of Geological Words and Terms

http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/resources.html

Explains common words and terminology. Useful for further interpretation of objects displayed in the Museum.

Creator

  • Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

How to obtain

Click the link to download the PDF.

Land and Sea - Handling Set Guide

http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/resources.html

Contains a pictorial guide to rock and fossil specimens on the theme of Land and Sea. Use at the Museum with the Land and Sea handling set, or use as a standalone reference.

Creator

  • Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

How to obtain

Click the link to download the PDF.

University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
England

Website

www.sedgwickmuseum.org

E-mail

sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk

Telephone

General enquiries

01223 333456

Fax

01223 333450

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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