Resources

Museum and Library Resources

All members of Cambridge University and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society are welcome to use the Haddon Library and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Our collections in the Haddon focus on Anthropology and Archaeology, but university and CAS members are welcome to borrow books and work in the library. Cambridge University Library also allows temporary reading access for private researchers. 

The Haddon Library
Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ
Telephone: 01223 339374

Stock includes monographs, pamphlets and offprints and select serial titles (current and dead)
Special Collections: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Book and offprint collections from the libraries of Alfred Haddon, James Frazer, William Ridgeway, Charles McBurney, A.H. Pitt-Rivers, Miles Burkitt, J.M. De Navarro, G.H.S. Bushnell, Grahame Clark.

Opening hours: Monday – Friday 0900-1700

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
Telephone: 01223 333516

The Museum contains large and important collections of archaeological and anthropological material from all parts of the world. The founding archaeological collection was presented by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1883 and consists of significant collections from the Cambridge region. Since then the collection has expanded to cover all periods include significant collections from Palaeolithic Europe, Asia and Africa; the Pre-Columbian America; early civilisations of the Mediterranean; and British archaeology. The anthropological collections include important artefacts from the South Seas, West Africa and the Northwest Coast of North America; historic collections from the 18th century; and extensive photographic collections from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Opening times: Tuesday-Saturday 1000-1700, Sunday 1200-1700
Closed Mondays, Christmas and Easter and on most public holidays.
Admission free. 

Publications

Current volumes of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society include a brief summary of reports filed from excavations in Cambridgeshire in the year before publication.

View the CAS Publications page for a full list of our publications.