How the other half live
Ever keen to find out what our colleagues are up to in other museums, five members of the UCM education team travelled to Oxford to meet up with staff from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The team at Oxford arranged a packed day where we met not only the education team but also their exhibitions, digital and community…
Marketing Cam Lates
It’s been two years since the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) launched Cam Lates, a series of after-hours events with a twist. How do you launch and then promote a hugely varied series of events across nine collections? We asked Richard White, the UCM’s Marketing and Communications Coordinator, for his thoughts… How is marketing Cam Lates different to other UCM…
Finding our way
Most of us don’t realise the extent to which we rely on wayfinding systems to navigate around urban spaces. At its most effective, orientation signage is something we take for granted – we depend upon it to get us to where we want to go, but rarely give it much thought. However, the new Museum of Zoology, hidden behind the…
