🏠 IndoorEducational🆓 Free entryBooking required
What’s there
- Limited parking
The university does not offer parking on campus; nearby pay-and-display parking is very limited. A multi-storey car park is about a three-minute walk away on Durham Road.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Alfred Denny Museum is a natural history collection inside the University of Sheffield's Alfred Denny Building. It was established in 1905 for biology teaching and is named after the university's first professor of biology. Visitors can see jarred specimens, skeletons, taxidermy and fossils, including a rare Japanese giant salamander, an emperor penguin brought back from an Arctic expedition, and a model of a large extinct bird's skull. Because the museum is small, guided tours are the way in, and each tour is capped at a small number of people. The museum notes that some displays, including skeletons and human remains, may be uncomfortable for some viewers. Tours are free, and the museum says it also runs occasional workshops and discovery tours. Some displays sit on other floors of the building and are reached by lift.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Portable phone charger
- Backseat organiser
- Hair bobbles
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Notebook
- I-spy book
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