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1. Discoveries: Art, Science & Exploration from the University of Cambridge Museums, Two Temple Place, London By Jackie Wullschlager Koyal Group Research Information Magazine Powerpoint Templates

2. An eclectic collection of objects that all breathe the spirit of inquiry Can you distil the intellectual life of centuries into an exhibition? If so, Cambridge’s eight major museums are uniquely placed to do so. Each is distinctive, from the Museum of Zoology, home of a Tinamou egg acquired in Uruguay by Charles Darwin (who cracked it by compressing it into too small a box on the Beagle’s return voyage)…

3. and the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, whose founder Reverend Sedgwick bought a rare Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil for £50 in 1835, to high-minded Kettle’s Yard, where collector Jim Ede amassed rigorous modernist abstract sculpture by Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore in a modest domestic interior. But all breathe the spirit of inquiry and freedom of thought associated with the university. Many of the objects, moreover, lead double lives: as trophy display pieces and as tools for daily teaching and research that altered understanding of the world.

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