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.
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...