Museum visits

There's a lot of museums in Cambridge. We've been to some of them and there's still a lot of them that we haven't gone to yet (but we will!).

These are the museums that we have been to:

Fitzwilliam Museum

This museum is the biggest and has different sections. We saw Egyptian mummies and Egyptian tombs. The Ancient Greek room had lots of vases and sculptures and statues. It has activities for kids to do like finding and drawing things.

Museum of classical archaeology

This one had mainly Greek and Roman statues. There was a place for kids to read Greek myths and I also tried to make a Roman vase.

Archaeology and Anthropology Museum

The archaeology section had a lot of artifacts the arcahaeologists had found. There was a section about the first woman archaeologist at Camrbridge University, Dorothy Garrod. She found lots of things and showed them to the museum. They also had a skeleton which had a mouse and a shrew with it.

Upstairs there was an anthropology section which had a totem pole. It had a carved brown bear and a fan and hundreds and thousands of other objects from all over the world. I liked that part the most. I was given a clipboard and an activity sheet. I found lots of objects starting with different letters in the alphabet.

 

Sedgwick Museum

This museum was all about earth sciences and it was my favourite! It had lots and lots of fossils and dinosaur bones. It had some fossils found by Mary Anning. It had the study of somebody who looked for fossils and cared a lot about them. We bought fossils at the shop. We were meant to find out what they were. I got shark teeth and two other fossils.

this is a picture of the Sedgwick museum

 

Museum of Zoology

The museum of zoology was about animals and shells. There was a giant clam which was half a metre. It also had lots of things that Charles Darwin had found like the giant ground sloth which was my favourite.

here is Rebecca and I will the giant ground sloth.

I can't wait to go to the other museums!