Day-time in Cambridge
Museums & Galleries
The Fitzwilliam Museum (www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/) is one of the great treasure houses of Europe with an outstanding collection of pictures, Graeco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities, armour, ceramics and glass. Kettles Yard is a most inspirational little museum – the home of a former director of Tate Britain who filled his ancient house with modern art and then left it there for all of us. The kids will adore the Sedgwick museum (www.sedgwickmuseum.org) where they can see dinosaurs, totem poles and much more. Budding adventurers must stop by at the Scott Polar museum that exhibits loads of fascinating and historic artefacts from some of the worlds most famous explorers. And the great news is that all university museums are FREE.
The newly refurbished Folk Museum is full of child friendly exhibits showing historic city and rural life. You can also visit one of the biggest Air Museums in the world at the Imperial War Museum (www.iwm.org.uk/) just outside Cambridge at Duxford.