Museum based in the Old Pumping Station with the original pumps and boilers and many other engines. There are a number of hands-on pumps, a printing room, a collection of early Cambridge wirelesses, instruments and other local artefacts.
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One of the oldest buildings in Ely, dating from the 13th Century, it has been a private house, a Tavern, a Registry Office and the Bishop's Gaol. Sensitively renovated in 1997 much of the buildings history can still be seen, including prisoners graffiti, hidden doorways and original planking on the walls.
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Outstanding collections of antiquities, fine and decorative arts including European paintings from the middle ages to the present, drawings, prints, sculpture, furniture, fans, coins and medals. Shop and Cafe. Open (except Mondays) all year. Free Admission.
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Still retains its wartime atmosphere and, as many of its aeroplanes still fly, you might even see one take to the air during a visit. Over 400,000 visitors come to Duxford annually and see biplanes, Spitfires, Concorde and Gulf War jets among the 180 historic aircraft on show.
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Kettle's Yard is a house with a fine collection of 20th century art in a unique doemstic setting and a gallery showing exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
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The museum's collection covers all branches of science and its applications from physics to phrenology and from magnetism to microscopy. Scientific instruments, models, prints and related objects are displayed in the early 17th-century Perse Room and in side galleries.
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