Twilight at the Museums 
Wednesday 13th February 2008, 4:30pm - 7pm
Bring a torch and explore six museums after dark. Enjoy a special family evening of torchlight trails and activities. This special evening is free, with no booking required, and open to all.
Click here to download a Twilight programme in PDF format 
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Participating museums:
1 - Museum of Classical Archaeology
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA - View location on Google maps
Tel: 01223 335153 Web: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/
Twilight Experience: Come and experience the shadowy world of the museum at night time, bring torches to create a special atmosphere. Storytelling tours introduce myths and legends of magic and monsters from the ancient past.
About the Museum: Five hundred life-size statues from Ancient Greece and Rome, copied in plaster in the nineteenth century, have been standing guard in this unique university collection waiting for your visit - a hidden gem of a museum.
2 - Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH - View location on Google maps
Tel: 01223 330906 Web: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/
Twilight Experience: Join us at the Whipple Museum for a twilight-themed family trail by torchlight. Solve the clues around the gallery to discover the secret code word and find the treasure!
About the Museum: Fascinating display of scientific instruments dating from the Middle Ages to the present day. Microscopes, telescopes and laboratory equipment demonstrate the vitality of past science, while the collections of pocket calculators and slide rules reflect how scientific instruments are important to us all.
3 - Museum of Zoology
New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ- View location on Google maps
Tel: 01223 336650 Web: www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/museum/
Twilight Experience: Discover the animals in a whole new light. Bring your torch, follow our family trail and make a 'fish from the abyss'.
About the Museum: A huge collection of recent and fossil animals, including spectacular skeletons of large mammals such as elephant, giraffe and whales, birds, reptiles, insects, beautiful shells, corals and other invertebrates displayed to chart the evolution of animal life.
4 - Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ - View location on Google maps
Tel: 01223 333456 Web: www.sedgwickmuseum.org
Twilight Experience: Bring your torch and discover what the dinosaurs get up to after sundown. Become a Darwin detective and help us uncover some hidden connections in our collections.
About the Museum: 500 million years of the history of life on Earth, including a 150 thousand-year-old hippo found in Cambridgeshire, to giant marine reptiles, dinosaurs and a marvellous array of other fossils, minerals and gemstones.
5 - Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ - View location on Google maps
Tel: 01223 333516 Web: museum.archanth.cam.ac.uk
Twilight Experience: Find out how people changed the way they looked in the past and the masks worn by people in other parts of the world. Make - and wear - your own decorative mask or headdress.
About the Museum: Experience the enormous diversity of people and cultures from around the world through the museum's collection of local antiquities, archaeological and ethnographic artefacts.
6 - Scott Polar Research Institute Museum
Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER - View location on Google maps
Tel: 01223 336540 Web: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/
Twilight Experience:With the lights down low, experience the half light of the Polar night. Bring your torch to explore the polar regions and follow the trail around the museum to enter our prize draw. Peer into cases to discover the equipment and letters of polar explorers of the past, or go on a quest to find the polar bears and penguins hidden in the museum.
About the Museum:Find out about all aspects of polar exploration, history, modern polar science and technology from penguins to skidoos, from Inuit art to the diaries of the Antarctic explorers, sledges, equipment, photographs and more.
