Cambridge
What to see
You’ll find accounts of Cambridge’s tourist attractions plus information on shopping, eating out etc at Visit Cambridge, Cambridge Live or Lonely Planet.
Specific Cambridge links include:
● Centre for Computing History
● Fitzwilliam Museum
● Kettle’s Yard Gallery
● Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
● Museum of Cambridge
● Museum of Classical Archaeology
● Polar Museum
● Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
● University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology
● Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “And apart from the history of these places, and the manicured quads, and the sense of Hogwarts for grown-ups, there are works of art within: Kings College chapel claims the world’s largest fan-vaulted ceiling and adds, almost casually, Rubens’ Adoration of the Magi.”
● “Here be dragons! Or, at least, skeletons and reproductions of dinosaurs. My favourite is the winged Ornithocherius, with its three fingers gripping the leading edge of the wing like a frantic hang-glider.”
● “Parker’s Piece is a large diamond-shaped common on which association football was supposedly first played to an agreed set of rules in 1878. On the Piece itself, a game of volleyball was in progress when I was there, but in another nod to the spirit of the age a desultory game of football involved players of both sexes. And nobody was wearing a gown.”
These are taken from the 2019 update of the Cambridge chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.