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Past the Fitzwilliam Museum, turn left along busy Lensfield Road for the Scott Polar Research Institute (Mon-Fri 2.30-4pm; free), founded in 1920 in memory of the explorer, Captain Scott, with displays from the expeditions of various polar adventurers, plus exhibitions on native cultures of the Arctic. There's more general interest near at hand in the shape of the University Botanic Gardens (daily 10am-6pm, 4pm in winter; glasshouses till 3.30pm; GBP2), whose entrance is on Bateman Street, about 500 yards to the south of Lensfield Road via Panton Street. Founded in 1760 and covering forty acres, the gardens are second only to Kew with glasshouses as well as bountiful outdoor displays. The outdoor beds are mostly arranged by natural order, but there is also a particularly unusual series of chronological beds, showing when different plants were introduced into Britain.
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