Cambridge 2000: university: Downing Site: Sedgwick Museum of Geology
The prettiest of the buildings on the Downing Site, the museum
contains a fantastic collection of rocks. The geology museum was
originally housed in the
Cockerell Building
next to the Old Schools. After Adam Sedgwick, a professor of
geology at the university, died in 1873, his successor, Thomas McKenny
Hughes, decided that a fitting memorial would be the erection
of a new museum. It took until 1904 for that new museum to open.
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