Read more about our work with our community and find out how you can get involved.
We believe everyone should be able to access our collections. We have developed a range of meaningful collaborations to ensure as many people as possible can access, enjoy and benefit from our Museums and Garden.
Join in
Disability Friendly Openings for Families
These school holiday sessions are a chance for children with special educational needs and disabilities to explore our Museums and Garden at their own pace.
Creative Club
Join our holiday Creative Club for children aged 8-14 with special educational needs and disabilities.
Touch Tours
Touch Tours are an opportunity for visitors who are blind and partially sighted to explore our collections and handle real objects.
Arts Pioneers
Arts Pioneers is a monthly art club for young people aged 11-19 with special educational needs and disabilities.
Discover our community partnerships
Portals to the World
Our programme of twice-monthly sessions for people with dementia and their companions, in partnership with Dementia Compass.
Wintercomfort
Each month a group from Wintercomfort, a Cambridge charity who supports people who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes, visits our Museums and Garden.
Dance with the Museum
These monthly movement sessions are for people living in sheltered housing or supported by the Cambridge City Council Independent Living Service with dance for health artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs.
Young Parents
Each year we run an arts project with a group of young parents from local charity Romsey Mill to support their wellbeing and creativity.
We work collaboratively with a number of other organisations in Cambridge to open up access to our Museums:
- Cambridge City Council Community Service – bringing the Museums out to community events and hosting supported visits through our Summer at the Museums and Twilight at the Museums family programmes
- Cambridge University Hospitals (CuH) and CuH Arts – including supporting patients in Addenbrooke’s Dialysis Centre and developing a programme with Occupational Therapists.
- COPE (Cambridge Older People’s Enterprise) – participating in the Talking Together programme.
- Parkinson’s UK Cambridge Branch – running a pilot dance programme for people affected by Parkinson’s.
- Cambridge and Huntingdon Deaf Children's Society – holding sessions for families with D/deaf and hearing impaired children.
- Cambridge and Peterborough Integrated Care System, Arthur Rank Hospice and care homes – through our Age Well programme.
If you would like to contact us about any of this work, please email us: info@museums.cam.ac.uk
We welcome community group visits across our Museums and Garden. Visit individual Museum websites for details on how to book. There are special entrance schemes for local community groups at our paid venues, Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Kettle’s Yard.
Resources
Free resources to support your visit or bring the museum to you at home.
Visual stories
Download a visual story to help you understand what visiting one of our Museums will look like ahead of your visit.
SEND Activities to try at home
Discover a series of SEND activities to try at home, including Artist Educator, Kaitlin Ferguson's short instruction films with two ‘levels’ of art activity.
Museum Walks
Download a themed Museum Walk to follow during your visit. Created with our partners at Dementia Compass for people with dementia or a cognitive impairment and their care givers.
Activity Sheets
Be inspired by our collections from a distance through these activity sheets, designed for the bedside and developed with partners at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Arthur Rank Hospice and care homes.
Relax, Look, Imagine Films
A series of mindful films using poetry and dance to travel through nature themed art works from the Fitzwilliam Museum, made in collaboration with members of the Dance with the Museum programme.
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To find out more about our health and wellbeing events, resources and opportunities, please sign up using the form below.
