Karen Thomas

Community Officer, Kettle's Yard and University of Cambridge Museums


Karen works with the Learning and Outreach officers across the museums developing long-term cultural partnerships with communities in the north of Cambridge and supporting projects that aim to engage communities with the museums collections. Karen is based at Kettle's Yard.

A walk to Jupiter: With Distance comes Perspective

by | 22.11.22

This summer, Young Carers from Centre 33 based across Cambridgeshire have been exploring out of this world art and objects. Our summer project is inspired by Our Place in Space, a scale model and artwork of our solar system designed by artist Oliver Jeffers and stretching from Midsummer Common in Cambridge, all the way to Waterbeach, part of the nationwide… Read full article

Young people standing with ears pressed to a tree

‘Branch’ing out with Centre 33 Young Carers

by | 20.10.21

Centre 33 and the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) have a long-term partnership stretching back over ten years which enables young carers in the county to come together, have fun and creatively engage with our collections. During the summer young carers from the Centre joined us at the museums to discover how nature, and particularly trees, have inspired and been… Read full article

Campaign for Empathy x Arbury Carnival

by | 17.08.20

Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, Enni-Kukka Tuomala The “Campaign for Empathy: A Message” is a travelling audio artwork spreading messages of hope, joy, togetherness and empathy from the future generation, in their own voices and their own words. The “Campaign for Empathy: A Message” marked what would have been Arbury Carnival 2020, the popular local event which normally brings… Read full article