The Polar Museum
Free polar exploration museum holding Captain Scott's last letters, in a 1930s memorial institute.
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This guide to the Polar Museum on Lensfield Road in Cambridge starts in March 1912, with the last line Captain Scott wrote in his diary, and follows the public appeal that answered it. It follows a geologist from Scott's expedition, the Lord Mayor of London, a charitable trust and an architect, as a memorial fund turned into bricks and mortar. Best heard on the pavement facing the entrance, where you can read the Latin above the door.
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