Craftswomen is a new exhibition at the Whipple Museum exploring the work of women in the British instrument trade between the 17th and 19th centuries. It exposes the often unseen work of the ‘craftswomen’ who made instruments for measuring, modelling and investigating the world.

An exciting new exhibition where the displays harness the allure and power of colour to inspire reflection and creativity.

Curated by student intern Eleanor Brittain, Secret Science showcases quirky objects that are not what they seem.

Collecting the Nation examines how geology relates to nationalism and colonialism.

The 2022-23 Chamber Music programme includes a diverse and exciting season of recitals to enjoy in the House at Kettle’s Yard. This year we are delighted to be welcoming back some old favourites as well as new faces to Kettle’s Yard.

Step into a world of winter colour and enjoy the textures, colour and fragrance with an uplifting walk around Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s Winter Garden.The Winter Garden is open every day from 10am and will be looking good until the end of March.

Spanning almost 400 years, this display of prints and drawings explores some of the ways artists have responded to political violence and social injustice. Drawn from collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the display surveys different forms of witnessing: works by artists who had direct experience of horrors, or who grew up in the shadow of terrible events; those who were commissioned to give visual form to the words of others, and those who assimilate in their work the trauma of distant ordeals.

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.

Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground- breaking practice across six decades.

Discover a range of events under the theme of 'Power' at this year's Cambridge Festival.

Join curator Dr Susanne Turner for a tour of the Museum's unusual collection of Greek and Roman plaster casts.

Join Uncomfortable Cambridge to explore how science, empire, and power are connected in the past and present.

Visit the Museum for a day of family activities

Join Uncomfortable Cambridge to explore how science, empire, and power are connected in the past and present.

Museum of Zoology Assistant Director,Jack Ashby, has decided that platypuses are the best animals to have ever evolved. Find out why at this in - person talk!

Enjoy African folktales in the Museum galleries after-hours

Talk by Jack Ashby, Assistant Director, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

What was it like to live on the fringes of the empire, under Roman rule? For one evening, as part of the Cambridge Festival, grab a glass of wine and find out.

Go on a journey with garden historian Twigs Ways learning about our seasonal wild flowers

Explore complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.

Pick up our Egg-cellent Penguins trail at the Polar Museum this Easter break.

Learn about the life cycle of a plant, plant some seeds and make a seed artwork to take home with you.

Can you crack the code of the enchanted egg and claim your Easter prize?

Explore complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.

Join us for Studio Sunday and get creative in our Clore Learning Studio.

Join us for a relaxed afternoon of Roman board games.

Join project curator Abigail Baker on a tour of 'Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean’ where she will share her exclusive highlights from the exhibition.

Learn how to tackle weeds with Botanic Garden experts

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell. 

Try something new with this perfect sized project, or make a lovely gift for someone

Join tutor Gwenda Kyd and learn about aromatherapy and essential oils on this morning course

A one-day course all about these amazing little plants

Keeping a sketchbook is the best habit an artist can have

Learn to study and record leaves in detail using coloured pencil with Janie Pirie

Join us for a New Music concert in the Kettle's Yard House with Supra Nagarajan and Lucy Nolan.

Go on a journey through the seasons learning about wild flowers with garden historian Twigs Way

Join RHS medal-winning garden designer Paul Herrington and start designing your own garden

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with pianist Iyad Sughayer.  

Follow the journey from wild species through domestication and cultivation to commercial production

Join us in the schools’ garden as we pot up different plants that you can grow on at home in your garden or windowsill.

Join tutor Penny Price and learn to paint these fleshy, water retaining plants

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with the London Bridge Trio playing works by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn.

We hope that this course will provide a stimulating introduction to the biology of flowers, and you will look at your garden in a new light

Learn some watercolour skills with professional painter John Wiltshire

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House as we welcome back the Solem Quartet.

This course will introduce you to the world of these specialised plant metabolites

Learn the secrets of great garden photography with Botanic Garden photographer Howard Rice

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell. 

Learn more about these specialist plants and their beautiful flowers

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House as we welcome back Fenella Humphreys playing a varied programme including baroque works, showpieces from Paganini and newer Celtic folk-inspired works.

Explore the natural history of our native trees and learn how to recognise individual species

Go on a journey through the seasons learning about wild flowers with garden historian Twigs Way

Join us for a New Music concert in the Kettle's Yard House with the House of Bedlam.

Have fun at this family session as you weave your own artwork using leaves, grasses, plant fibres and scented plants from the Botanic Garden.

Create your own collage surfaces using paints, foliage, vintage paper, magazines, old books or wallpaper

Learn how to use plant material to print and make your own sketchbooks

Explore the changing mealtimes of the Georgian gentry, and the role of temples, garden tents and picnic sites in garden design

Develop a taste and a confident passion for these beautiful plants

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell. 

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell. 

Develop an understanding of the evolution and systematics of the major plant families and the skills needed for plant identification

Come along to learn all about butterfly and moth life cycles. We’ll also be discovering what has been caught overnight in our moth trap and making fabulous paper caterpillars to take home.

Ancient, intimate and political, embroidery is the foremost cultural material of Palestine.

Join us for wand making as we use beautiful grasses and lavender to make very special nature wands.

At this workshop we will be making leaf artworks.  Using some of the most interesting shaped leaves we will create pictures using leaf rubbing with crayons and watercolours.

The Botanic Garden is home to lots of different animals – come along to learn about them and make an animal mask decorated with autumn seeds and leaves.

We’ll be using hessian, sticks and natural plant fibres to make nature wall hangings that you can hang on your wall or bedroom door. Drop-in to join in the fun.

This group exhibition is based on the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-chia (1929 – 1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery which he founded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian’s Wall.

Get festive at this drop-in activity where you can learn all about the history of the Christmas tree and make some Christmas craft to take home with you.