shift shift
04.02.2025
Small bur really interesting. If you are interested in the history of science there are some excellent exhibits.
MCB
01.02.2025
This is a most amazing museum! Scientific instruments include Charles Darwin's microscope, tiny brain saws, and orreries from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Children's scientific toys from the 1920s ("Every Boy and Girl a Scientist" on the cover of one!) are fascinating.
The set-up of the museum is awesome - the old hall, the cases...
This is a small museum so packed with fascinating items that it took us two trips to see it all!!
Sayan Mahanty
12.12.2024
Nice place 💫👍👍♥️
Kyle Drexel
31.08.2024
Wonderful historical artifacts on display. It's a smaller collection than some, but very high quality. Worth a visit.
Khalid Khaliq
16.08.2024
Small museum, free entry, very educational. Worth a visit whilst in Cambridge.
Jakob Lucas
25.07.2024
Beautiful collection of scientific equipment acquired from a collector who truly cares about the context and quality. Many older pieces combined with newer sets from the late 20th century really add to one's appreciation of scientific development. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the evolution of discovery.
Gyöngyvér Pósz
12.07.2024
Four big room packed with interesting scientific or science-related objects. Fun activities for the smaller ones too.
Joanna Nguyen-Truong
11.07.2024
Free to visit. Nice collection!
Caitlin O
12.06.2024
Fantastic museum with very friendly staff!
Etheria H
13.04.2024
Love the interior style and the items they display at this museum. There are two floors, the first floor has a hall, a hallway, and a chamber for exhibiting both vintage and modern technology items. The chamber upstairs is for showing different globes that were made throughout time and from different countries. This museum is mostly concentrated on showing astrology-related items, such as telescopes, globes, etc, but they also have more than that, such as films, microscopes, calculates, pocket watches, etc. It is a very educational place, and friendly for both astronomy amateurs and students.
Michael Clark
05.04.2024
An interesting collection with some interactive exhibits.
Gerard van Dalen
23.02.2024
Very nice overview of the history of science.
Colin H
08.01.2024
Said it was open on web site . Shut when we got here .
Francesco Marchini
08.01.2024
It's not a big museum but it has a lot of different scientific tools and objects that are quite nice.
Everything is organized well and I enjoyed a lot visiting this museum.
Manvendra Nigam
13.12.2023
Show how the science had evolved from Napier bone ,slide rule , difference engine to iPad . Different experience
Eduardo Quintana
07.11.2023
La ciencia no es una herramienta aislada o robótica, la practican los humanos y se trabaja en ella en un contexto y bajo ideas filosóficas. Así lo entendió Robert Whipple, fundador de este museo, de la Universidad de Cambridge, que posee telescopios, calculadoras, microscopios, mapamundis, instrumentos ópticos y mecánicos y hasta juegos victorianos.
Forma parte del Departamento de Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia de la universidad inglesa, así que también se practica la enseñanza y la investigación aquí.
Forman parte de su colección una variedad de mapamundis de siglos pasados, incluyendo uno de “los canales de Marte”, uno de los telescopios fabricado por el astrónomo William Herschel hacia 1790 (el descubridor del planeta Urano), un astrolabio persa del Siglo XVIII y una parte de la máquina diferencial de Charles Babbage y hasta un microscopio utilizado por Charles Darwin.
Todo esto, sin olvidar que el edificio principal conserva su arquitectyra de 1618, recordemos que la universidad fue fundada en 1209.
Fuente: 5 museos de ciencia de Europa que tenés que conocer sí o sí - Ciencia del Sur
Andy Dawson
31.10.2023
Fantastic, really interesting place to spend a couple of hours. Plenty of interactive hands-on stuff for the younger ones.
Sarah Dudley
08.10.2023
Always a pleasure to visit. Quiet but full of treasures and interesting tidbits.
Viktoriya Shabanova
02.09.2023
Small museum, but packed with information and history. I do recommend at least stopping by, as I am pretty sure it has something for everyone interested in the history of science. If not, you'll get to admire all the wood work up on the ceiling!
Entrance is free, but they do ask for a small donation.
Ania S
19.08.2023
A small place tucked away, fantastic things to see in here - especially if you are big into astronomy like myself.
Mamoru Komachi
06.08.2023
Lots of historical objects. There are two study rooms for kids to learn scientific backgrounds.
