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Tour illustrations: Franz Nopcsa, SUE the T. rex, Jonathan Cutbill and Anna Gurney. ©Layo Danbury, 2025
The Sedgwick Museum is proud to present its new LGBTQ+ tour as part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries programme.
It is hard to say for certain that a 19th century scientist was queer just from their memoirs. It is difficult to know whether they were in a romantic relationship with the ‘secretary’ they lived with, or were they just that – a secretary? Were the two unmarried women who lived together for thirty years really just ‘close friends’? Looking for gender queerness in museum collections can be challenging.
Join the Sedgwick Museum to explore and celebrate queer histories linked to its collections and people, extricated and inferred from letters, choice words and omissions.
For age 18+.
FREE, but booking essential. Email to book your free place on the tour: sedgwickmuseum@esc.cam.ac.uk
