Places to visit in Cambridge City

A short list of notable parks, markets, museums and landmarks in Cambridge City.

• Arbury Road Roman villa · Historic

  Roman villa in Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Bramblefields · Parks

  Cambridgeshire is a county in eastern England, with an area of 1,308 square miles (3,390 km2) and a population as of 2011 of 708,719. It is crossed by two major rivers, the Nene and the Great Ouse. The main manufacturing area is Peterborough, and the foundation of the University of Cambridge in the thirteenth century made the county one of the country's most important intellectual centres. A large part of the county is in The Fens, and drainage of this habitat, which was probably commenced in the Roman period and largely completed by the seventeenth century, considerably increased the area available for agriculture.

• Cambridge (Samian Ware Discovery Site) · Historic

  Cambridge as Samian Ware discovery site

• Cambridge Greyfriars · Historic

  former Franciscan friary in Cambridge, England, on the site of Sidney Sussex College

• Castle Hill, Cambridge · Parks

  Castle Hill in Cambridge, England, is located in the Castle ward of the city. Cambridgeshire County Council's former headquarters, Shire Hall, are located directly adjacent to Castle Hill.

• Coldham's Common · Parks

  Coldham's Common is a 49.3 hectare local nature reserve in Cambridge. It is owned and managed by Cambridge City Council.

• Fitzwilliam Museum · Culture

  The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745–1816), and comprises one of the best collections of antiquities and modern art in western Europe. With over half a million objects and artworks in its collections, the displays in the museum explore world history and art from antiquity to the present. The treasures of the museum include artworks by Monet, Picasso, Rubens, Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van Dyck, and Canaletto, as well as a winged bas-relief from Nimrud. Admission to the public is always free.

• Haddon Library · Culture

  library of the University of Cambridge in the Downing Site

• Kettle's Yard · Culture

  Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities.

• Logan's Meadow · Parks

  Logan's Meadow is a 1.1 hectares Local Nature Reserve in Cambridge. It is owned by Cambridge City Council and managed by the council together with City Greenways Project.

• Museum of Classical Archaeology · Culture

  The Museum of Classical Archaeology is a museum in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1884, the museum is housed in the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge. Since 1982, it has been located in a purpose-built gallery on the first floor of the Faculty of Classics on the Sidgwick Site of the university.

• New Hall Art Collection · Culture

  The Women's Art Collection is a permanent collection of modern and contemporary art by women artists, at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, England.

• Polar Museum · Culture

  museum in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

• Roman shrine 1 at Cambridge, Castle Hill · Historic

  rectangular Roman shrine with a semi-circular southern end associated with several animal burials and ritual shafts

• Roman shrine 2 at Cambridge, Castle Hill · Historic

  pentagonal Roman building interpreted as a shrine

• Roman shrine at Vicar's Farm, West Cambridge · Historic

  circular timber building inside a farmstead west of Roman Cambridge interpreted as a shrine

• Sheep's Green and Coe Fen · Parks

  Sheep's Green and Coe Fen is a 16.9 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Cambridge. It is owned and managed by Cambridge City Council.

• Stourbridge Common · Parks

  Stourbridge fair was an annual fair held on Stourbridge Common in Cambridge, England. At its peak it was the largest fair in Europe and was the inspiration for Bunyan's "Vanity Fair".

• The Backs · Parks

  The Backs is an area to the east of Queen's Road in the city of Cambridge, England, where several colleges of the University of Cambridge back on to the River Cam with their grounds covering both banks of the river.

• The David Parr House · Culture

  house in Cambridge, UK

• Whipple Museum of the History of Science · Culture

  The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is a museum attached to the University of Cambridge, England, which houses an extensive collection of scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science. It is located in the former Perse School on Free School Lane, Cambridge. The museum was founded in 1944, when Robert Whipple presented his collection of scientific instruments to the University of Cambridge. The museum's collection was 'designated' by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) as being of "national and international importance".

• Cambridge Model Engineering Society miniature railway · Attraction

  The Grantchester Woodland Railway is a 7+1⁄4 in, 5 in and 3+1⁄2 in ridable miniature railway, in the Newnham area of Cambridge, close to Grantchester. It is owned and operated by the Cambridge Model Engineering Society (CMES) and is affiliated to the Narrow Gauge Railway Society.

• Jesus Lock · Attraction

  Jesus Lock is a lock on the River Cam in the north of central Cambridge, England. This is Lock No. 1 on the navigable portion of the River Cam. It was built in 1836 and is the only lock in the city. Jesus Green Lock Cottage, the former lock-keeper's cottage, is by the lock on Jesus Green. It was formerly owned by the Conservators of the River Cam and rented out to students. In 2016 permission to convert it into a café was refused; it was sold in 2021 to private buyers.

• Mr & Mrs Clarks Gallery · Landmark
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology · Museum

  The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, also known as MAA, at the University of Cambridge houses the university's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world. The museum is located on the university's Downing Site, on the corner of Downing Street and Tennis Court Road. In 2013 it reopened following a major refurbishment of the exhibition galleries, with a new public entrance directly on to Downing Street.

• Museum of Classical Archaeology and Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge · Museum

  The Museum of Classical Archaeology is a museum in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1884, the museum is housed in the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge. Since 1982, it has been located in a purpose-built gallery on the first floor of the Faculty of Classics on the Sidgwick Site of the university.

• North Court wildflower meadow · Parks
• Primavera · Landmark

  Primavera was a fine arts and crafts gallery at 10 King's Parade in Cambridge, England. Henry Rothschild founded Primavera in 1945 in Sloane Street, London, in order to promote and retail contemporary British art and craft. The Cambridge branch of Primavera was opened in 1959.

• Reality Checkpoint · Attraction

  Reality Checkpoint is the humorous nickname of a large cast-iron lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece, Cambridge, England, at the intersection of the park's diagonal paths. It gained the nickname in the early 1970s when it first appeared on the lamppost's base as graffiti, possibly by a student. The graffiti was sometimes removed by the local council, but soon reinstated. The nickname is now officially painted on.

• Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences · Museum

  The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the university's Downing Site in Downing Street, central Cambridge, England. The Sedgwick Museum is the oldest of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums consortium.

• Selwyn College Gardens · Parks
• The Douglas Finlay Museum of College Life · Museum
• The Newton’s Tree · Attraction
• The Polar Museum · Museum
• Whipple Museum of the History Of Science · Museum

  The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is a museum attached to the University of Cambridge, England, which houses an extensive collection of scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science. It is located in the former Perse School on Free School Lane, Cambridge. The museum was founded in 1944, when Robert Whipple presented his collection of scientific instruments to the University of Cambridge. The museum's collection was 'designated' by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) as being of "national and international importance".

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