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Cambridge University Library
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Library is one of the oldest university libraries in the English-speaking world – and home to one of the world’s greatest collections of cultural treasures.
Beginning as a small chest of manuscripts for Cambridge scholars in the early 1400s, the Library has grown to house a collection of nearly ten million books, maps, manuscripts, photographs and priceless objects, spanning thousands of years of human thought and discovery in more than 2,000 languages.
Today, more than 600 years later, Cambridge University Library preserves and shares the world’s knowledge – from a 4,200-year-old Sumerian clay tablet, to 19th and 20th century posters demanding suffrage and equal rights for women. Alongside the works of Newton, Darwin, Shakespeare and some of the world’s earliest fragments of the Quran, is one of the most comprehensive collections of British books anywhere in the world.
Across 17 floors of books, maps, photographs and an assortment of unexpected objects – including ectoplasm and séance trumpets – Cambridge University Library cares for a globally-important collection of works which illuminate the immortal power of storytelling, and humankind’s unending quest to better understand our place in the universe.
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The Collection
Paper
135
Wood
48
Book
36
Ink
20
Textile
11
Metal
Bone
Gold
Leaf
Dye
Photograph
Leather
Iron
Rock
Clay
Pigment
Silver
Copper
Ceramic
Silk
United Kingdom
23
England
Africa
France
Paris
Japan
Italy
Turkey
Australia
Chile
Nara
Croydon
Nara Park
Kōfuku-ji
Kansai Science City
India
36
Japan
22
England
15
Switzerland
Egypt
Nepal
France
China
Germany
Iran
Iraq
Mauritius
Philosophy
10
Poetry
10
Medicine
Map
Biology
Health
Horse
Geography
Costume
Therapy
Money
Love
Engineering
Physics
Furniture
Space
Statistics
Architecture
Flower
Tradition
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Fun & Games
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Illustrating Anatomy
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Curious Objects
A cabinet of curiosities and other oddities ...
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Samurai: History and Legend
Explore the literary concept of the samurai and the changing nature of Japanese warrior culture from the 12th to the 19th centuries.
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Communication
Technology has always driven and mediated human communication and all its forms can be found within the Library.
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Cambridge University Library
West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR, UK
Monday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Sunday
Closed
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