The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

As you walk through the Sedgwick Museum’s galleries, you pass through more than 500 million years of the history of life on Earth.

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is the oldest of the University of Cambridge Museums, having been established in 1728 as the Woodwardian Museum. Since then the collection has grown from about 10,000 fossils, minerals and rocks, to at least 2 million. A walk through the museum will take you on a 4.5 billion year journey through time, from the meteoritic building blocks of planets, to the thousands of fossils of animals and plants that illustrate the evolution
of life in the oceans, on land and in the air.

Open Monday-Friday 10-1 and 2-5

Saturday 10-4

Open some Bank Holidays – please check website for details

FREE! entry to all the University Museums