University Museum Of Zoology

The University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge features a striking, modern glass facade that shelters over two million specimens, including a massive fin whale skeleton suspended above the entrance. This collection began in the early nineteenth century when naturalists gathered samples from around the globe to classify life on earth. Charles Darwin sent items home from his voyage on the Beagle, and his personal collection of barnacles remains housed inside those quiet, climate-controlled galleries today.