{"id":1828,"date":"2016-05-03T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/futuremagazine.dexterthemes.com\/?page_id=1828"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:55:45","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The University of Cambridge Museums is a consortium of the eight University Museums and the Botanic Garden.<\/h2>\n<p>Our collections span four and a half billion years of natural objects, artefacts and art. 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