The College Collections include art and artefacts, manuscripts and archives, rare books and natural history specimens, ranging in date from prehistory to the present day.
We look after these outstanding collections to preserve and develop them for the future and make them accessible to the local community and the wider world. Each year, our museums, gallery, reading room and historic spaces welcome thousands of visitors.
160,000+
artefacts, specimens and files of documents in the collections
500 million+
years old is the age of our earliest objects, and the newest were made this century
25,000+
people visit our free museums, gallery, reading room and historic spaces each year
Explore digitised records, past exhibitions and articles on an array of subjects. We offer online access to a growing selection of our rich collections.
You can browse or search for specific items. Digital images of many historic photographs, works of art and museum objects appear in our catalogue records.
Our education sessions are free and activity based. Led by our Education Manager, students use a variety of objects, documents and images to discover more about their topic.