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We are open five days a week, Monday to Friday 12.30 - 16.30

And selected Saturdays, 10.00 - 16.00

Read more at: Ending soon: The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Ending soon: The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Glassblowing during the practical class at the Cavendish Laboratory.

2024 marks 150 years since the founding of the Cavendish Laboratory of Experimental Physics. No one could have predicted in 1874 that Cambridge physics would give birth to the atomic age: that the electron and neutron would be discovered, and the atom itself split, on Free School Lane. From delicate glass vessels and...

Opening Times

We are regularly open five days a week, 12.30 - 16:30.

And now open the third Saturday of every month!

Monday 12.30 - 16:30

Tuesday 12.30 - 16:30

Wednesday 12.30 - 16:30

Thursday 12.30 - 16:30

Friday 12.30 - 16:30

Selected Saturdays 10.00 - 16.00

 

Easter Bank Holiday Opening Hours

The museum will be open on Good Friday, 18 April, and Saturday, 19 April 2025.

We will be closed on Easter Sunday, 20 April, and Easter Monday, 21 April 2025.

We hope to see you soon!

Explore Collections

Read more at: Dr. Auzoux's Papier-Mâché Models

Dr. Auzoux's Papier-Mâché Models

Papier-mache and plaster model of a May beetle.

Medical student Louis Auzoux was frustrated with the shortage of human corpses available for studying anatomy. Using his own secret papier-mâché mixture he developed 'dissectable' models, which could be used again and again. Later, he also created models of animals and plants. Real corpses or models? As a medical student...

                 

 

       

 

      

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