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Month: October 2022

The collection item we overlook.

The collection item we overlook.

There is one very prominent item in our collection that even we overlook: the shop front of the Enid Porter building! Originally from 45 Bridge Street, it was a shop known long ago as ‘Le Cage’ and subject to demolition in

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Pick your favourites!

Pick your favourites!

With Christmas fast approaching at the Museum we have been sprucing up the list of ‘Adopt-an-object’ items on the website. Perhaps you have a loved one in your life for whom a particular item is special? maybe there’s something that

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Bricks and mortar

Bricks and mortar

The Museum of Cambridge sits within the old White Horse Inn, a public house until 1934, it was saved from demolition and converted into the Cambridge and County Folk Museum. The White Horse Inn can trace its history to about

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