Using wildlife of the past to guide conservation of the future

This exhibition will use UK butterfly specimens from our collections to showcase the natural world and environmental change. It highlights the research that conservationists today are undertaking to reverse long-term declines, including people based here in the Museum. 

To celebrate International Women's Day 2022, the Museum of Zoology will be joined by a panel of four amazing female scientists introducing their research and answering your questions.

Panellists include:

Dr Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Senior Research Associate and Group Leader, researching the evolutionary origins of complex structures in the vertebrate head.

Join Cambridge-based architect Rolfe Kentish for this online talk which explores the restoration of the historic North-lit Anchor Studio in Newlyn, Cornwall.

Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum was published in 1540. The product of 8 years of work, it is a complex book with many interactive wheel diagrams, also known as volvelles or Apian wheels, that allowed the user to calculate the positions of the planets as they moved around the central earth. The book, published only three years before Nicolaus Copernicus’ treatise that positioned the sun at the centre of the universe, draws on a millenia of scientific knowledge and represents the pinnacle of sixteenth century print making.

Join art historian Dr Donal Cooper and exhibition curator Martin Kemp for an in-person talk in the Fitzwilliam Musm’s Italian renaissance gallery exploring Hockney's art in relation to Renaissance perspective, 3D modeling and the art of Fra Angelico and Domenico Veneziano

Join exhibition curators Martin Gayford, Martin Kemp and Jane Munro for an introduction to Hockney's Eye, an exhibition exploring David Hockney’s interactions with artists of the past and with technologies of viewing, both past and present.

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

Through both traditional and cutting-edge ways of making art, the exhibition explores Hockney’s obsession with how we see the world, and how our world of time and space can be captured on the surface of a flat picture.

Join award-winning TV presenters Maddie Moate & Greg Foot (Maddie’s Do You Know?, Blue Peter, Let’s Go Live) for a unique interactive twilight adventure!

Watch along LIVE to help Maddie and Greg find clues, solve puzzles and search the tropical rainforests and deserts of Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s Glasshouses by night to solve the Mystery of the Moonflower.

Our 2022 Kettle’s Yard Student Programmer Emily Bretz has created this series titled Return to Normality performed by University of Cambridge Students.

In this concert two groups from the University’s Instrumental Award Scheme, auditioned by Professor Margaret Faultless, present a challenging and invigorating programme of works.

Student music concerts take place in the Kettle’s Yard House, and are seated on a first come first seated basis.

FREE, come along