What is an orrery? Why is the clock chiming 13? Why would you collect and display a set of plaster horses’ teeth, some green spectacles and several hundred pocket calculators?
Join us for a tour of the Whipple’s collection in 10 objects, featuring spectacular instruments, fascinating scientific stories, and links to some of Cambridge’s most famous names.
Meet at the reception point in the Main Gallery.
What is an orrery? Why is the clock chiming 13? Why would you collect and display a set of plaster horses’ teeth, some green spectacles and several hundred pocket calculators?
Join us for a tour of the Whipple’s collection in 10 objects, featuring spectacular instruments, fascinating scientific stories, and links to some of Cambridge’s most famous names.
Meet at the reception point in the Main Gallery.
What is an orrery? Why is the clock chiming 13? Why would you collect and display a set of plaster horses’ teeth, some green spectacles and several hundred pocket calculators?
Join us for a tour of the Whipple’s collection in 10 objects, featuring spectacular instruments, fascinating scientific stories, and links to some of Cambridge’s most famous names.
Meet at the reception point in the Main Gallery.
It's the National Year of Reading, and what better way to flex your creative muscles than trying out some blackout poetry!
Polar Panoramas artist John Kelly included pieces of text in his Arctic scroll and select phrases in his forensic boxes. In a similar theme, blackout poetry is a form of 'found poetry' using existing text to create a new poem.
If you're a fan of the 'Polar Postcards' we share on social media, or perhaps the stunning landscapes on display in Polar Panoramas, this might just be the event for you!
Using recycled postcards and coloured card, we'll show you how to create your own torn paper landscapes to take home.
We'll start with a 15-minute introduction to the method, accompanied by some inspriation images from our archival paintings and photographs. You'll then have 45 minutes to create as many postcards as you wish!
Enjoy celebrating all things apple at Apple Day 2026 in Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Highlights include:
🍏 Apple tasting & sales: many heritage varieties to taste and/or buy (you can purchase with cash or card)
🍏 Apple identification: apple experts from the East of England Apples and Orchards Project will be on hand to identify apples. Bring your unidentified apples along to the team, preferably with stalk and leaf attached to help with accurate identification.
This UK Fungus Day, join us for Fungi Field Day at the Botanic Garden to celebrate fungi and their relationships with plants. Come along to learn, engage and play, and discover what we can do to help conserve the fungal diversity around us.
Highlights include:
🍄A range of talks from expert speakers, covering fungal partnerships, their roles in agriculture, and how they inspire art
🔬Science stand with microscopes to discover fungi that live inside plants
Join us for a unique event: a choral performance amongst our casts from the antique. Enjoy a glass of wine (or elderflower presse) as the voices of Cambridge Schola sing out in our atmospheric Cast Gallery.
Arrivals: from 8.15pm
Performance: 8.30pm
Britten Niobe | Debussy Syrinx | Danby Apollo, high our souls inspire |
de Monte Venere e Dafne | Bennet All creatures now | Elgar There is
sweet music
Zoom back in time to the world of ancient Greece at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Learn to weave like Athena, make your own helmet like Ares, and handle replica objects from everyday Greek life.
Join us and step into a world of gods, heroes, myths, and more...
Programme
Karen Tanaka At the Grave of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
Antonín Dvořák String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 ‘American’
About Brodsky Quartet
KRYSIA OSOSTOWICZ, VIOLIN
IAN BELTON, VIOLIN
PAUL CASSIDY, VIOLA
JACQUELINE THOMAS, CELLO
