'Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’

From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?

Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.

Important Information

Tour guides will meet you in the Whale Entrance Hall approx. 5-10 mins before the tour is due to start.

This is an audio described tour with curator Professor Victoria Avery. Learn about the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition.

Read more about Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition.

From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

Are you a young woman with a passion for pollinators and crafting? Join us on the 3rd of May for a day of zine-making at the Museum of Zoology for women aged 16-35. 

A zine is a small magazine – it comes from the word “magazine”. They are usually independently published, low cost, and easy to distribute. They emerged about 100 years ago and gained popularity in the Riot Grrrl scene in the 90s, when girls and women came together to tackle the lack of women’s representation in the punk music scene.

Join us for the second of our after-hours film screenings of queer films. Lose yourself in immersive vulgar Latin with our screening of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976), a film which frames a loose retelling of the story of a Christian saint within an explicitly homoerotic gaze.

Grab a glass of wine and a sketchpad, it's time for Drink and Draw
An evening of poetry inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture

Whipple Scribble! 

After-hours sketching at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge.

Thursday 8 May, 5.30-7.30pm

Free - Donate What You Can!

 

Ever fancied sketching among telescopes, globes, and ancient scientific instruments? Step into Cambridge University's home for the history of science for a relaxed, creative evening.

This talk will look at how Lili Brik’s position, as both muse and socialite, reflected the changing gender norms and the status of women in the decades following the Russian revolution. We will discuss the depictions of women in popular visual culture and art to illuminate the nuances and contradictions that existed in Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s as the establishment of the new social order was taking place.

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