Cambridge Museum of Zoology. August 2018

Cambridge Museum of Zoology. August 2018
Charles Darwin's beetle box. These specimins were collected in and around the city of Cambridge when Darwin was studying here.
Darwin was an enthusiastic collector and made a considerable beetle collection during his time as an undergraduate in Cambridge.

Charles Darwin came to study in Cambridge in 1828. He was introduced to 'beetling' by his friend and cousin William Darwin Fox. The friends rarely went to lectures, as they were far more likely to be out beetling. This box contains some of the beetles that Darwin himself collected from the area arond Cambridge. Some of these beetles still exist in the wet lands around the city, but many are extinct.

Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge UK.After being closed for 5 years the newly renovated Museum of Zoology reopened this year to the public and academic researchers, making the museum one of the major Cambridge attractions with more than 75,000 visitors a year. Entry is free but the museum is closed on Mondays.The redevelopment work was part funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.8 million towards a total of the £4.3 million needed. The museum has some of the best collections in the world with specimens from across the entire animal kingdom, from elephants, sloths, reptiles, insects and molluscs.The great naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both left much of their work to the museum including the world famous beetle collection that Charles Darwin amassed while studying in Cambridge in the early 19th century.The collection contains more than three million items and thousands are on view to visitors including a skeleton of the extinct Dodo.Perhaps the most impressive new addition to the museum is the Whale Hall built to house the 21 metre long Fin Whale, which used to hang outside acting as a pigeon roost but now hangs over the heads of visitors upon their arrival. The Fin Whale was beached at Pevensey in east Sussex

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Cambridge Museum of Zoology. August 2018<br />
Charles Darwin's beetle box. These specimins were collected in and around the city of Cambridge when Darwin was studying here.<br />
Darwin was an enthusiastic collector and made a considerable beetle collection during his time as an undergraduate in Cambridge.<br />
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Charles Darwin came to study in Cambridge in 1828. He was introduced to 'beetling' by his friend and cousin William Darwin Fox. The friends rarely went to lectures, as they were far more likely to be out beetling. This box contains some of the beetles that Darwin himself collected from the area arond Cambridge. Some of these beetles still exist in the wet lands around the city, but many are extinct.<br />
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Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge UK.After being closed for 5 years the newly renovated Museum of Zoology reopened this year to the public and academic researchers, making the museum one of the major Cambridge attractions with more than 75,000 visitors a year. Entry is free but the museum is closed on Mondays.The redevelopment work was part funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.8 million towards a total of the £4.3 million needed. The museum has some of the best collections in the world with specimens from across the entire animal kingdom, from elephants, sloths, reptiles, insects and molluscs.The great naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both left much of their work to the museum including the world famous beetle collection that Charles Darwin amassed while studying in Cambridge in the early 19th century.The collection contains more than three million items and thousands are on view to visitors including a skeleton of the extinct Dodo.Perhaps the most impressive new addition to the museum is the Whale Hall built to house the 21 metre long Fin Whale, which used to hang outside acting as a pigeon roost but now hangs over the heads of visitors upon their arrival. The Fin Whale was beached at Pevensey in east Sussex