Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

New Cambridge University exhibition lets visitors test their strength against Greenland’s amazing rare-earth elements

26 Feb 2026

A first-of-its-kind Cambridge exhibition will let visitors wrestle with the extraordinary power of rare-earth magnets and discover the rocks from...

Into the underworld: the mountains beneath our feet

14 Jan 2025

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it shaped the surface and...

Ancient Egypt gallery at The Fitzwilliam Museum. Photo: The Fitzwillliam Museum / David Valinsky Photography

Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections

03 Dec 2024

The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa...

The Butterfly Effect

22 May 2024

New climate-themed art exhibition by local schoolchildren opens its wings at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

World first as Bell Burnell pulsar chart goes on display

08 Mar 2019

Iconic object exhibited for the first time, alongside works by Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University Library.

A Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones, 1813, by John Mawe

Going underground: Cambridge digs into the history of geology with landmark exhibition

24 Nov 2017

A box full of diamonds, volcanic rock from Mount Vesuvius, and the geology guide that Darwin packed for his epic voyage on the Beagle will go on...

Opinion: Mysterious footprint fossils point to dancing dinosaur mating ritual

08 Jan 2016

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs...

Opinion: Six amazing dinosaur discoveries that changed the world

30 Nov 2015

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses the fossil discoveries that really made a difference to science.

The Magna Carta of scientific maps

01 Aug 2015

One of the most important maps of the UK ever made – described as the ‘Magna Carta of geology’ – is to go on permanent public display in Cambridge...

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

New Cambridge University exhibition lets visitors test their strength against Greenland’s amazing rare-earth elements

Into the underworld: the mountains beneath our feet

Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections

The Butterfly Effect

World first as Bell Burnell pulsar chart goes on display

Going underground: Cambridge digs into the history of geology with landmark exhibition

Opinion: Mysterious footprint fossils point to dancing dinosaur mating ritual

Opinion: Six amazing dinosaur discoveries that changed the world

The Magna Carta of scientific maps

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