A new exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire.

NEW - exhibition 'Growing a backbone: Rise of the vertebrates' - discover how and why heads, jaws, teeth & backbones have evolved at our new exhibition, with specimens that have not been on display before. 

A new temporary art installation co-curated with a group of young people from Parkside Community College and artist Hilary Cox Condron. This creative response to the Museum’s collections and the current climate crisis explores extinction, climate change and hope for the future.

Artist Rona Lee has created two new works, informed by research in the Sedgwick Museum’s archives. These installations challenge the conventional way minerals are displayed in the Museum.

Follow our trail on refugee seekers in the ancient world

100 years on from the last Paris Olympics, explore how the modernist culture of this vibrant city shaped the future of sport and the Olympic Games we know and love today.

 Join us in celebrating women Earth scientists in this display, co-curated by two Earth Sciences students. 

Our Autumn Art Adventure is back!

Discover some of the many highlights of ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’

Discover the stories that museums sometimes leave untold

Come and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

Get hands on with artefacts found in our local region and hear the stories behind the objects with knowledgeable staff in a tour for blind and partially sighted adults. 

From the 1924 Paris Olympics to London 2012, how can popular media transform sport? 

Join writer Peter de Bolla for a response to Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours.

Experience the work of American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in this landmark exhibition bringing together works by the artist alongside his unique interventions in The Fitzwilliam Museum's galleries.

We’re redesigning our Learning Gallery, and we need your help! Become a Whipple Museum curator for the afternoon and build your own museum.

Find out about some of the amazing women represented in the Whipple Museum's collections.

Join Whipple Museum Director Joshua Nall for a brief introduction to our display of one of Rosalind Franklin's DNA research notebooks alongside the blue plaque unofficially acknowledging her work. 

Come and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

Enjoy a bespoke guided walk with staff from the Museum of Zoology and Botanic Garden enjoying the beautiful sounds of the summer for blind and partially sighted adults. 

Join us for Fungi Field Day at the Botanic Garden to celebrate fungi and their relationships with plants in the run up to UK Fungus Day. 

Discover the stories that museums sometimes leave untold.

Come and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love. 

Join a taster session for our upcoming short course for people affected by Parkinson’s.

Use colourful autumn leaves to make a fabulous pumpkin artwork for your home.

Meet some of nature's heroes in our new exhibition, which will be popping up across Cambridge this autumn.

Buy a subscription ticket to the 2024-25 series of Chamber Music concerts at Kettle’s Yard. The subscription ticket gives you entry to all fifteen Chamber Music concerts over the year, saving up to £120. Subscription tickets will be available to collect at the first concert that you attend.

Join us for the first Chamber Music concert of the 2024/25 season as we welcome the Doric String Quartet to Kettle’s Yard.

Join us as we host the region’s biggest Apple Day

Join us in the Kettle’s Yard house for a Chamber Music concert with the Castalian Quartet and Tim Posner, cello.

Join us for a magical family session at the Botanic Garden

Join us in the Kettle’s Yard house for a Chamber Music concert with Sterling Elliott and Gabriele Strata.

We're inviting people affected by Parkinson’s to take part in a short course led by dance for health artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs and inspired by objects, artefacts and artworks from the University of Cambridge Museums.

Find out about different kinds of mushrooms and make fungi art.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert with Trio Chagall in the Kettle’s Yard house.

Christmas is little Robin Redbreast’s favourite time of year. She visits all the festive plants in the Garden, and this year, you’re invited too! 

Join us in the Kettle’s Yard house for a Chamber Music concert with Alessandro Fisher, tenor and Simon Lepper, piano.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert with Kathryn Stott on piano in the Kettle’s Yard house.

Cambridge Botanic Lights will again bring the Garden to life after dark with spectacular displays and artistic installations – creating a beautiful landscape for visitors to enjoy after dark.

Make Christmas decorations using natural materials from the Botanic Garden.