Cambridge Highlights: Essential City Walk

## The Fitzwilliam Museum On Trumpington Street, opposite Fitzwilliam Street, the Fitzwilliam Museum is a fitting opening stop for a walk through Cambridge: it connects the city’s university history with a collection spanning cultures and periods far beyond it. Founded in **1816** under the will of **Richard FitzWilli…

FitzwilliamMuseum — Fitzwilliam Museum

## Whipple Museum of the History of Science After the Fitzwilliam Museum, this stop shifts the city walk from art to the material history of scientific work. The Whipple Museum, attached to the University of Cambridge, preserves the instruments, apparatus and models through which people observed, measured and represen…

Whipple Museum of the History of Science Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH

## Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology After the Whipple Museum’s history of science, this stop broadens the story: the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) explores how people have lived, made objects and understood their worlds. Its collections bring together local antiquities wi…

Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Cambridge — Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

## 4. Market Hill After the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Market Hill brings the city’s past into a continuing public setting. Also known as the Market Square, it has served as Cambridge’s marketplace since Saxon times. A daily outdoor market still operates here, with stalls making this central space part of…

CambridgeMarketSquare — Market Hill, Cambridge

## King’s College Chapel Leaving Market Hill, the walk turns from Cambridge’s civic centre to one of its defining university landmarks. King’s College Chapel belongs to King’s College, founded by Henry VI in 1441; construction of the chapel took place in stages from 1448 to 1515, spanning the Wars of the Roses and the…

Kings College Cambridge Chapel from the river

## Church of St Mary the Great At the north end of King’s Parade, Great St Mary’s—often shortened to GSM—is the parish church and university church of Cambridge. Coming from King’s College Chapel, this stop widens the story from a college landmark to an institution shared by the city and university. The church is a Ch…

Cmglee Great St Marys

## The Corpus Clock After the city’s landmark church, this stop brings the walk to a strikingly modern work on the exterior of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College. At street level, where Bene’t Street meets Trumpington Street, the clock looks out over King’s Parade—a sculptural interruption in Cambridge’s his…

Corpus clock pol

## Mathematical Bridge After the Corpus Clock’s striking modern take on time, the Mathematical Bridge offers a fitting final stop on a walk through Cambridge: here, the city’s academic character is expressed through an ingenious piece of practical engineering. The wooden footbridge crosses the River Cam and links two …

Mathematical Bridge Cambridge