Kettle's Yard founded by H.S. 'Jim' Ede. A place where visitors would 'find
a home and a welcome, a refuge of peace and order, of the visual arts and
of music.'
Each afternoon (except Mondays) visitors can ring the bell and ask to look
around.
Summer opening (2005: 10 Apr - 12 Sept)
Tue - Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays 1330 -1 630
Winter opening Tue-Sun and Bank Holiday Mon 1400 - 1600
Gallery and bookshop open Tue-Sun
and Bank Holiday Mon 1130 - 1700
note: The gallery and bookshop are closed during the installation
of exhibitions
Easter opening: closed Good Friday, open Easter Monday
Kettle's Yard is a department of the University of Cambridge.
The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences,
University of Cambridge, Downing Street
Cambridge, CB2 3EQ
Exhibits include - Ancient Life: The Fossil Record (I) Life in the Jurassic
Seas, The Fossil Record (II) Origins of Modern Life, The Fossil Record
(III) Planet Earth.
The Mineral Gallery - a walk through time - earliest fossils to dinosaurs
(Dinosaurs at the Sedgwick Museum) - the marine world of 200 million years
ago - post dinosaurs - how life developed.
Discover the Earth - how it works - other planets in the Solar
System - Local Geology - The rocks and fossils - The scenery of
Cambridgeshire county and Fens.
About the Burgess Shale - Prehistoric wildlife in East Anglia - Bears,
hippos, mammoth etc.
The Darwin Collection - Specimens collected by Darwin on his
1831 Voyage of the Beagle.
Woodward's Legacy - A unique and complete collection from the 17th
century.
Open: Mon to Fri 0900 to 1300 and 1400 to 1700
Sat 1000 to 1300
Milton Country Park,
Milton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Formerly farmland, both arable and pasture, The Country Park owes much of
its present appearance to the extraction of gravel and sand for the building
of roads and houses from the 1930's to 1960. When sand and gravel extraction
ceased around 1960, the site became overgrown with thick hawthorn and willow
scrub and entered a period of neglect and misuse that ended in 1990 when
work started on the Country Park.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH
The collection covers all branches of science and its applications from
physics to phrenology and from magnetism to microscopy. Scientific instruments,
models, prints and related objects are displayed.
Open Monday to Friday 1330 - 1630. Closed at weekends, on bank holidays,
and on any additional days mentioned on the Museum homepage.
Admission is free. Donations are gratefully received and are used to enhance
the displays in the galleries.
Every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained
in this Directory is accurate. Do be aware, however, that conditions of
entry etc. can change at short notice and that telephone numbers and personalities
may change also.