The museum
holds over 1 million samples of rocks, fossils, minerals, soft sediments,
building and decorative stones. The collection is available to both
students and visitors to the museum, and a special research room is
available to aid visiting researchers.
The Watson
Collection, on the museum's ground floor, houses the Museum's
decorative and building stones, covering not only England, but materials
used throughout the world. This collection is a valuable resource
for architects, and those involved in retoring historic buildings.
A special
exhibit entitled "Life in the Jurassic Sea." traces dinosaur and other
sealife in the Jurassic period, while the Burgess Shale exhibit looks
at the fossil remains of plant life found in the Canadian Rockies.
The mineral collection has over 40,000 specimens, making it one of
the largest in the UK. Notable strengths of the mineral collection
are the Cornish and Cumbrian minerals.
The Hume
Collection, named after Sir Abraham Hume (1749-1838), features both
cut and uncut diamonds. Other exhibits display colour in minerals,
and give special atterntion to Calcite, jade, and gemstones.
Address
The Sedgwick Museum
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 3EQ
Telephone: (01223) 333456
(01223) 333400 (answer phone)
Fax: (01223) 333450 web site
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