Cambridge Museums & Galleries

Steam engines and the industries of Cambridge in a Victorian sewage pumping station on the river.

Cambridge's archaeology and world-cultures museum, free to enter, with Pacific, Torres Strait and local collections.

Everyday life in Cambridge and the Fens since 1700, in a Grade II listed 16th-century former inn.

A free gallery of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, including a painted Peplos Kore.

The University's free geology museum, with Darwin's Beagle rocks, an upright Iguanodon and a huge fossil collection.

A working-class Victorian decorator's terraced home, painted by hand in the Arts and Crafts style.

Relics of Scott, Shackleton and the Arctic peoples, free to enter, in a Grade II listed 1930s institute.

A free natural history museum under a hanging fin whale, with Darwin's specimens and extinct birds.

Scientific instruments, models and apparatus from the medieval period to today, on Free School Lane.

Christopher Wren's library at the end of Nevile's Court, finished in 1695, with Newton's notes and the Pooh manuscripts on the shelves.

A hands-on museum of home computers and video games, from the Altair 8800 to the ZX Spectrum, on the east side of the city.

The University of Cambridge's art and antiquities museum, in a Grade I listed neoclassical building with free entry.

Samuel Pepys's own library, kept in his own bookcases at Magdalene College, currently closed for refurbishment.