The Museum is responsible for around 1.5 million fossil, rock
and mineral specimens from around the world, encompassing more
than 500 million years of Earth's history. Curator: Dr Liz
Harper Collections Manager: Dan Pemberton Collections Assistant,
Palaeontology: Matthew Riley To learn more about the
palaeontology collections, please contact Matthew Riley.
Mineralogy and Petrology Collections Curator: Professor Michael
Carpenter Collections Manager: Dan Pemberton The Geological
Conservation Unit was founded in 1991 as the conservation unit
for collections of the Sedgwick Museum and the Department of
Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. The Unit has a fully
equipped laboratory where we do conservation work and prepare
objects for display. The specimens on display in the gallery are
just a fraction of the entire collection. Most of the Museum's
specimens are stored in environmentally controlled rooms at the
Conservation Unit. Into the Field Again: Re-Examining Charles
Darwin's 1835 Geological Work on Isla S