This is a major University museum roughly comparable with the Ashmolean at Oxford. Many of the artefacts and pictures in its very extensive collection were obtained through bequests.
Among all the superb rooms we found two particularly exciting. One contained splendid pottery articles from the Roman period in Cyprus. The other was actually a temporary exhibition on for the next six weeks about collecting impressionist works for Cambridge. Monet, Pisarro, Degas and Renoir were among those represented.
There is no charge for admission. A donation of £3 is recommended but there is no pressure to pay it.