Join us to see the Garden brought to life after dark with stunning displays and artistic interventions!
The lights will highlight some of the Garden’s most beloved features (such as the Fountain, Lake and Glasshouse Range) and create beautiful experiences around the rest of the landscape.
Our Café will be on the route with warm offerings, and there will also be hot drinks and snacks available halfway round to revive spirits and warm up any chilly fingers!
We pile meaning on our hair, changing the cut, style and colour to influence how the world sees us – and how we see ourselves. Hair is always with us and is a part of our body which we can modify at will. And if this is true today, it was also true in the ancient past. So for one afternoon only, we’re going to be getting hands-on with ancient hair and embodying the styles of the classical past here in our atmospheric Cast Gallery.
Be the first to see our landmark exhibition: Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance at this special after-hours event with music and cash bar.
Whether it’s your favourite woolly jumper or a 17th-century wooden globe, pests love eating organic materials. This means they are a threat to museum collections. This display showcases objects that have been damaged by pests and explores the behind-the-scenes work that museums do to protect their objects. You can even have a go at identifying real museum pests yourself!
The unique geological structure of Parian marble allowed ancient sculptors to shape the most sensuous of human forms.
About Cambridge Community Arts
Cambridge Community Arts is a local charity that uses creative arts as a tool for empowerment and social inclusion of adults in Cambridge and Fenland. Offering arts based courses in the community in a safe, friendly environment. To date, 700+ course places have been offered and participants benefit from increased confidence and improved mental health.
New archaeological discoveries are made every year, but not always by archaeologists or in the places you expect. From back gardens to scientific laboratories, the past is everywhere.
Beneath our feet are the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire. Using specific times, places and individuals, this exhibition aims to provide a snapshot of what life might have been like and how we know about it.
A fun-filled, fact-finding day out with something for everyone to enjoy: from gardeners to budding plant scientists; families to photographers or anyone looking to spend an interesting day in the Garden when it is is brimming with summer colour.
Highlights include:
🌸 A variety of free, guided Garden tours (bookable on the day).
🌸 Pop-up, family-friendly interactive plant science stalls where University researchers demonstrate some of the latest findings from the world of plant science.
Join us LIVE online as we chat to experts about urban wildlife, plus we will be showcasing the amazing work of our Young Zoologists. Get your urban wildlife questions ready for our experts on the night!
This event will be live via YouTube. Click here to join the livestream.
Join us at the Museum as we discover and celebrate urban animals at this family activity day. Lots of craft activities going on in the Museum, plus a chance to add your own creative artwork to our Zoology Garden! We will be joined by The Wildlife Trust and the RSPB to celebrate our urban wildlife, plus we'll be exploring the urban wildlife that Cambridge has to offer by leading some walks around the city.
Most of the activities will be at the Museum of Zoology - open 10am to 4.30pm. Entry to the Museum is FREE, all activities will be FREE.
