Things to see in Cambridge - jullybina’s diary

Visitor Offices

Cambridge Tourist Information Center

Address: , Peas Hill (off Market Place), Cambridge, CB2 3AD

Phone: +44 871 226 8006.

Opening occasions:

Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1100-1500 (April-Oct); Mon-Sat 1000-1700 (Nov-Mar).

The Visit Cambridge group can help with masterminding convenience and booking fascination just as giving maps, keepsakes, tickets for King's College Chapel, guided punt visits and the sky is the limit from there.(by hull taxi)

Attractions

The Round Church

This environmental Norman survivor, yet broadly redesigned, is one of just four round places of worship in the nation. It goes back to 1130AD, making it one of the most seasoned structures in Cambridge, and hosts an astounding lasting show on the effect of Christianity in England.

Address: , Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB

Phone: +44 1223 311 602.

Opening occasions:

Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1330-1600.

Site: http://www.christianheritage.org.uk

Affirmation Fees:

Truly

Impaired Access: No

UNESCO: No (by minibus hull)

Cambridge University schools

Cambridge University is the second most seasoned college in England, and offers an unrivaled notoriety for magnificence and custom with Oxford University. The college's different universities, a considerable lot of them design perfect works of art, are dissipated all through the city. Many are mostly open to guests at specific occasions. A load up at the passage records opening occasions; generally ask at the traveler office.

Address: , Cambridge,

Phone:

Opening occasions:

Different.

Site:

Affirmation Fees:

Truly

Crippled Access: Yes

UNESCO: No

Historical center of Archeology and Anthropology

This world-class accumulation of Oceanic, Asian, African and Native American curios incorporates some full-sized amazingly vivid things (kayaks, figures, veils, command hierarchy) and is an extraordinary blowout of pictures and top notch thoughts. Features incorporate the biggest accumulations of articles from the voyages of Captain James Cook and a great gathering of Anglo Saxon material from Britain.

Address: , Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ

Phone: +44 1223 333 516.

Opening occasions:

Tue-Sat 1030-1630, Sun 1200-1630.

Site: http://www.maa.cam.ac.uk

Affirmation Fees:

Crippled Access: Yes

UNESCO: No (by bradford taxi)

Extraordinary St Mary's Church

The fine old college church neglects the market square and flaunts a pinnacle with a restricted vertiginous staircase that opens to look down on the core of the medieval city. Its physical establishments date from around 1010 and a congregation has remained in this very spot since 1205.

Address: , King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 3PQ

Phone: +44 1223 741 720.

Opening occasions:

Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1245-1600 (winter); Mon-Sat 1000-1630, Sun 1245-1630 (summer) (for pinnacle).

Site: http://www.gsm.cam.ac.uk

Confirmation Fees:

Indeed (for pinnacle).

Impaired Access: No

UNESCO: No

The Fitzwilliam Museum

The college's specialty accumulation gives the premise to one of the best little historical center displays in Europe, with craftsmanship and ancient pieces traversing hundreds of years and civilisations. Among the features are artworks from the fourteenth century to the present day, illustrations and prints, figure and oriental workmanship.

Address: , Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB

Phone: +44 1223 332 900.

Opening occasions:

Tues-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700.

Site: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Confirmation Fees:

Handicapped Access: Yes

UNESCO: No

Cambridge and County Folk Museum

This enchanting and thorough exhibition hall, concentrating on nearby social history and old stories, is housed in the previous sixteenth century White Horse Inn. Things in its accumulation incorporate an awesome blend of everything from the unremarkable to the strange, for example, pursuing tokens made of corn, to moles' paws conveyed to counteract stiffness and an out-dated vacuum more clean.

Address: , 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ

Phone: +44 1223 355 159

Opening occasions:

Tues-Sat 1030-1700, Sun 1200-1600.

Site: http://www.folkmuseum.org.uk

Affirmation Fees:

Truly

Debilitated Access: Yes

UNESCO: No (by bus hire carlisle)

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

The college's botanic greenery enclosure is a delightfully arranged 40-section of land (16-hectare) garden a mile south of the downtown area. The accumulation numbers in excess of 8,000 marked plant species, including a wide range of sorts of scenes, from the snow capped to forests, just as a few glasshouses, a lake, a winter garden and a stone patio nursery.

Address: , 1 Brookside, Cambridge, CB2 1JE

Phone: +44 1223 336 265.

Opening occasions:

Every day 1000-1800 (Apr-Sep); day by day 1000-1700 (Feb, Mar, Oct); day by day 1000-1600 (Nov-Jan).

Site: http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk

Confirmation Fees:

Indeed

Handicapped Access: Yes

UNESCO: No

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

This gathering is eminent for its initial logical instruments, dating from the fourteenth century. The gallery is named after its author, Robert Stewart Whipple (1871-1953), who displayed his accumulation of 1,000 logical instruments, and a comparable number of uncommon books, to Cambridge University in 1944.

Address: , Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH

Phone: +44 1223 330 906.

Opening occasions:

Mon-Fri 1230-1630.

Site: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple

Affirmation Fees:

Crippled Access: Yes

UNESCO: No

Scott Polar Research Institute

Cambridge is home to both the British Antarctic Survey and the Scott Polar Research Institute, putting the city at the bleeding edge of polar investigation. Study the historical backdrop of our journey to vanquish the planet's coldest places in the Institute's little however entrancing gallery.

Address: , Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EP

Phone: +44 1223 336 540.

Opening occasions:

Tues-Sat 1000-1600.

Site: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/historical center

Affirmation Fees:

Crippled Access: Yes

UNESCO: No

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

An out-dated yet air historical center with noteworthy dinosaur skeletons and examples gathered by Darwin on his 1831 voyage on board The Beagle. Altogether, the gallery is in charge of no less than 2 million fossil, shake and mineral examples from around the globe, and a walk around its old passages will take you on a 4.5 multi year venture through time.

Address: , Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ

Phone: +44 1223 333 456.

Opening occasions:

Mon-Fri 1000-1300 and 1400-1700, Sat 1000-1600.

Site: http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org

Confirmation Fees:

Impaired Access: Yes

UNESCO: No