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University of Cambridge Museums is a consortium of the eight museums of the University of Cambridge. The consortium works in partnership with the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and other Cambridge University collections. It was awarded Major partner museum status by Arts Council England in 2012. [1] [2] [3] The consortium comprises ...
The university operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Cambridge's 116 libraries hold a total of approximately 16 million books, around nine million of which are in Cambridge University Library, a legal deposit library and one of the world's largest academic ...
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, also known as MAA, at the University of Cambridge houses the university's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world. The museum is located on the university's Downing Site, on the corner of Downing Street and Tennis Court Road. In ...
New Museums was the second university departmental site, after the Old Schools (near the Senate House), and the university's first science site. [1] Several important scientific developments of the 19th and 20th centuries were made at the New Museums Site, mainly at the Old Cavendish Laboratory, including the discoveries of the electron by J. J. Thomson (1897) and the neutron by Chadwick (1932 ...
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge . It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745–1816), and comprises one of the best collections of antiquities and modern ...
Built: 1964-67 Cambridge University: History Faculty Building (C) [1] Built: 1964-68 Flats at Camden Town [1] Built: 1964-68 St. Andrews University, Scotland: student residences; 1965 Middlesbrough, England: new headquarters for Dorman Long Steel; Built: 1966-71 Florey Building (Oxford University: Halls of Residence, Queen's College)
Cambridge University Library — Events held in the Exhibition Centre; Cambridge University Museum of Zoology — University of Cambridge — Specimens and skeletons of fossils, animals, insects and birds from around the world; Centre for Computing History — Museum telling the story of the Information Age
Colleges of the University of Cambridge (2 C, 33 P) L. Libraries of the University of Cambridge (16 P) M. Museums of the University of Cambridge (9 P)