Libraries and museums the University of Cambridge

Libraries and museums the University of Cambridge

The university has 114 libraries. The Library of the University of Cambridge is the central research library, which has more than 8 million volumes. It is a legal deposit library, therefore, has the right to request a free copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland. In addition to the University Library and its dependents, every faculty has a specialized library, for example, Seeley Historical Library of History at the College has more than 100,000 books. In addition, each college has a library and partly for the purpose of undergraduate education, and colleges often possess many early books and manuscripts in a separate library. For example Trinity College's Wren Library has over 200,000 books printed before 1800, while the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College has one of the largest collections of medieval manuscripts in the world, with over 600 manuscripts.

Cambridge University operates eight arts, cultural and scientific museums, and a botanic garden:

• The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum

• Patio boiler is a contemporary art gallery

• The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge houses the collections of local antiques University, together with archaeological and ethnographic pieces worldwide

• The Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge hosts a wide variety of zoological specimens from around the world and is known for its iconic finback whale skeleton hanging outside. This museum also has specimens collected by Charles Darwin

• The Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

• The Whipple Museum of the History of Science

• The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is the geology museum of the University

• The Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute, which is dedicated to Captain Scott and his men, and focuses on the exploration of the polar regions.

• The Botanical Garden of the University of Cambridge is the botanical garden of the University, created in 1831