Museums in Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum

3,699 reviews

The Fitzwilliam is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, and one of the finest small museums in Britain, free to enter, in a grand neoclassical building.

The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute

440 reviews

A fascinating museum dedicated to polar exploration and research, featuring artifacts from Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.

Museum of Cambridge

A local history museum in a former inn, showcasing everyday life in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire from the 17th century to today.

Kettle's Yard

A modern art gallery and house museum with a renowned collection of 20th-century British art in a serene domestic setting.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

The world's oldest geology museum, housing over two million fossils and rocks, including a giant ichthyosaur skeleton.

Cambridge University Museum of Zoology

A vast collection of animal specimens from around the world, including a giant ground sloth skeleton and a dodo model.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Houses global artefacts and Pacific treasures, including the famous Hawaiian feather cloak and Captain Cook's collection.

Pepys Library

Holds Samuel Pepys's original diary and his personal library of 3,000 books, arranged exactly as he left them.