Dr Elizabeth Harper has been appointed Acting Director of the Sedgwick Museum following the retirement of Dr Ken McNamara.

Celebrating 100 years since John Edward Marr (1857-1933) became the 9th Woodwardian Professor, Monday 30th October: Visit our online Archive gallery

The UCM India Unboxed series continues with the puzzling story of the fiery meteorites which were cold to the touch when they fell to earth in northwest India 157 years ago.

This was the question we were asked by Kanta Kiyomoto a year 8 student at Cambridge International School. Kanta is studying various forms and sources of radiation for his Silver CREST award and wondered if we could help out with some radioactive gems.

How do you reach an untapped audience 4 hours away? You join forces with colleagues in affiliated organisations and travel down to the seaside together to do some outreach!

Explosive (Earth) activities @ the Sedgwick Museum took place on Saturday 18th March 2017...!

A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution

Celebrating the 100th birthday of Walter Brian Harland (1917-2003) Wednesday 22nd March: Visit our online Archive gallery

Luckily it is only the size of a pinhead and has been extinct for some 540 million years, otherwise the monstrous appearance of Saccorhytus coronarius would be the stuff of nightmares. And, like it or not, scientists think that this is one our remote human ancestors.