Sedgwick Museum

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Introduction

If you like old - here you will find old.

For old, read pre-life on earth old. The Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge is around 100 years old. Many of the exhibits have hand written labels which look about the same age. Minute writing, but giving a feel for the person who wrote the label as someone who knew their stuff. There are some printed signs and labels, but it is the hand-written stuff which gives the real flavour.

Rocks, minerals and fossils going back to the start of life on earth and laid out in order. From the main door, you track gradually back in time until a time when there was no life on Earth. The numbers are awsome. There are rocks and minerals plus some fossils which are 500 million years old. It gives the human span on the plant of only 10,000 years some perspective.

Old is what the Sedgwick museum does and it does it well.