List of museums in Cambridge facts for kids

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

The following museums and art galleries are located in Cambridge, England:

• Round Church Visitor Centre — History of the Round Church, the development of Cambridge and the university
• Cambridge Museum of Technology — Housed in the sewage pumping station, print room and old machines, local industries and equipment
• Cambridge Science Centre — Interactive museum of science and technology, which opened in February 2013
• 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, closed until early 2017
• Centre for Computing History — Museum telling the story of the Information Age
• Fitzwilliam Museum — University of Cambridge — Museum with collections of art, manuscripts, coins, medals, and antiquities
• Kettle's Yard — University of Cambridge Art gallery with collections of contemporary and modern art
• Lawrence Room at Girton College — features Anglo-Saxon, Egyptian and Mediterranean artifacts
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology — University of Cambridge Archaeological and anthropological artifacts and photographs from around the world, including a totem pole
• Museum of Cambridge — Museum of the history of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, regional folklore and local life
• Museum of Classical Archaeology — University of Cambridge — Museum of plaster casts of classical Greek and Roman statues and sculpture
• New Hall Art Collection — Gallery and collection of modern and contemporary art by female artists
• People's Portraits Exhibition at Girton College — exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters showing 'ordinary' British people at the verge of the 21st century
• Ruskin Gallery — art gallery of Anglia Ruskin University
• The Polar Museum — University of Cambridge — Museum dedicated to the history and science of Arctic and Antarctic exploration
• Sedgwick Museum — University of Cambridge Museum of fossil animals and plants, dinosaurs, and rocks and minerals
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science — University of Cambridge Scientific instruments, models and displays on the history of science, dating from medieval times to the present day