Museum News
Press release 20th February 2011
Discover geology…around Cambridge city centre?
Now you can! The Cambridge Geology Trail will help you to do just that. This new self-guided walk around the historic city centre will introduce you to just a few of the many different rock types, fossils, minerals and geological features that are waiting to be discovered in the walls, roofs and pavements of Cambridge
Full story ... Cambridge Geology Trail - available now to download
Was the fox prehistoric man's best friend?
Conservation work on faunal remains from a prehistoric grave in Jordan was carried out in the Sedgwick Museum's conservation unit, The A.G. Brighton Building.
Archive Project Underway
A project to employ a professional archivist for a year to re-box, arrange and describe some of the collection has been funded by a grant from the Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) Council Designation Development Fund (DDF).
Winter 2013 edition of Trilobite available online
Trilobite is the newsletter of the Sedgwick Museum and the Friends of the Sedgwick Museum. It contains information about upcoming events in the Museum and the activities (including talks and field trips) of the Friends.
The latest edition Trilobite is available in PDF 
format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Download the Winter 2013 edition of Trilobite
Previous editions:
Download the Autumn 2012 edition of Trilobite
Download the Spring 2012 edition of Trilobite
Download the Autumn 2011 edition of Trilobite
Download the Summer 2011 edition of Trilobite
Download the Winter 2010/11 edition of Trilobite
Download the Summer 2010 edition of Trilobite
Download the Winter 2009/10 edition of Trilobite
Schools' News
From Megalosaurs to Microfossils - Exploring Earth Science
Excellence East are generously funding the Sedgwick Museum and the Department of Earth Sciences to run half-day courses for Gifted, Talented and Able young people in Years 8-11. The courses are for small groups, and will include laboratory visits and practical work, meeting earth scientists and finding out about what they do, and a chance to meet earth science undergraduates and chat informally about being a student in Cambridge.
Updated Resources for Teachers
Planning a school visit to the Sedgwick Museum? An updated version of the Sedgwick Museum booklet "Information for Teachers" is now available to download. The pack contains essential information to help teachers planning a class visit to the Sedgwick Museum, along with information about loan boxes and other resources that can be used in the classroom.
News Archive and Annual Reports
Sedgwick Museum - Annual Report 2008-09
The Annual Report is available in PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Download the Annual Report 2008-09
Gallery Explainers at the Sedgwick Museum
Monday 21 – Friday 25 February 2011
We have recruited a team of Gallery Explainers who will be on duty in the Museum during half term week.
If you have a question about being a geologist, need help to find your way around or want to learn more about the Museum then look out for somebody wearing a red top and this badge!
Darwin Rocks
Remarkable exhibition reveals Darwin's life-long love of stone collecting.
Charles Darwin is best known for his work on species, but a new exhibition opening at Cambridge University this week reveals another side to one of its most famous sons.
Conference: Darwin in the Field: Collecting, Observation and Experiment
This two day conference will take place in Cambridge on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th July 2009 and will allow participants to explore different aspects of Darwin as a collector and an observer of the natural world.
The programme of twelve speakers will illuminate the ways in which Charles Darwin used the various collections he made and the notebooks he kept to try to understand the World around him.
Discussing Darwin on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg came to Cambridge in November 2008 to record interviews for a series of four programme's on the life of Charles Darwin for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time series.
Seismic Events at the Sedgwick Museum
Thanks to a public engagement grant from the Institute of Physics and funding from the Friends of the Sedgwick Museum, the Sedgwick Museum has been able to set up a seismological station to record the shock waves created by earthquakes.
Sedgwick Museum - Annual Report 2007-08
The Annual Report is available in PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Download the Annual Report 2007-08
Migration of the Giant Elk
One of the Museum's most well-loved specimens has been re-located to create space for the new Darwin the Geologist exhibition.
Free New Learning Resources for Secondary Science
"Ideas and Evidence at the Sedgwick Museum" is a pack of resources including teachers notes, high quality images, activity templates and worksheets which deal explicitly with the ideas and evidence content in the KS3 curriculum in the context of rocks and fossils.
In Darwin's Footsteps on James Island (Isla Santiago)
A pioneering trip to the Galapagos Islands by University of Cambridge Geologists has begun an investigation of the cause of a unique volcanic phenomenon.
