Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
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The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It has a collection of around 2 million rocks, minerals and fossils, spanning a period of 4.5 billion years. It is the oldest of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) consortium.
The Sedgwick Museum also contains over 2000 boxes of irreplaceable records, from exquisite 17th century drawings of fossils to unique historic geological sketches and letters from the frontline in World War 1. The Archive includes the papers of the famous 'Sedgwick Club', started in 1880 in memory of Adam Sedgwick after whom the Museum is named as well as records charting decades of exploration in Svalbard from the late 1940s. - Parent Organisation
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University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) Archive Collections
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This item was submitted on October 24, 2025 by Sarah Snelling using the form “Organisation” on the site “History Day”: https://exhibitions.london.ac.uk/s/history-day-discover-collections
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