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King’s College
King’s Parade
}01223 331 100; www.kings.cam.ac.uk
Founded by Henry VI in 1441, King’s College was originally a partner school to Eton until it relaxed its admission polic…
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Trinity College
Trinity Ln.
}01223 338 400; www.trin.cam.ac.uk
Trinity is perhaps the most popular of the colleges. Drawing a phenomenal numbers of tourists, the modern-day college is…
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Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington St.
}01223 332 900; www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
This grandiose museum is named for Richard Fitzwilliam, whose collection started it off in 1848. The assortment of piece…
St John’s College
St John’s St.
}01223 338 600; www.joh.cam.ac.uk
Through the green arches of the entrance lies the paved plaza of St John’s College, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort (m…
Museum of Zoology
Downing St.
}01223 336 650; www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk
This museum is packed to the gills with fantastic animals in fossil, skeletal, and taxidermied forms. Many of the specim…
Magdalene College
Magdalene St.
}01223 332 100; www.magd.cam.ac.uk
Magdalene College (pronounced MAUD-lin) is housed in a 15th-century hostel for Benedictine monks that is much nicer than…
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Ln.
}01223 330 906; www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple
This university museum is named after Robert Whipple, who donated a collection of 1000 scientific devices to the univers…
Christ’s College
St. Andrews St.
}01223 334 900; www.christs.cam.ac.uk
Over the years, this college has changed from “God’s-house” to “Jesus College” and now to Christ’s. Whatever it’s called…
Jesus College
Jesus Ln.
}01223 339 339; www.jesus.cam.ac.uk
15th-century rumor has it that Jesus’s founder, Bishop Alcock, started the college on the grounds of a nunnery that had …