Explore the Collections

Watch a film about one of the most provocative pieces in the Museum of Classical Archaeology's Cast Gallery.

Objects from the University of Cambridge Museums as you've never seen them before...

This piece concerns the Iguanodon fossil cast in the Sedgwick museum.

How do we untangle complex colonial histories to reach the unnamed sitter of these portraits?

Ellen, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide for the University of Cambridge Museums, talks about a statue representing Durga, found in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Remember Titus, Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s stinky corpse flower? He’s had babies...

Meet Antinous, the boy who became a god...

An audience with collectors Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon

Why are we reluctant to engage with the idea of a woman taking part in a battle?

Enjoy an online exhibition featuring five colour lithographs and one etching by New Zealand artist Marian Maguire, who imagines how the passing millennia might have affected the traditional roles of the ancient Greek goddesses. 

Mathelinda Nabugodi investigates the impact of colonialism and the slave trade on Romantic poets.

Game Designer Elizabeth Simoens invites Exhibitions and Display Coordinator at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Rob Theodore, to her island to visit the museum.

Diamonds with a dark past

A portrait of an unknown woman

Brace yourself for a digital exhibition featuring work by artists who specialise in the polar regions.

Who counts as a scientist?

Meet Titus, the titan arum plant with a very distinctive smell.

Discover the evolutionary tale of the chimpanzee and bonobo.

Take a tour of the exhibition ‘Church and the Ancestors: Sacred pir mats from Asmat, Papua, Indonesia’.

Theo Sayers imagines the story behind an archive photograph in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Meet Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour guide Tim Drummond and the Museum of Zoology's Emperor Penguin

An intriguing pair of necklaces from early human history

Objects from across the University of Cambridge Museums as you've never heard them before...

Nicholas Thomas, Director at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, talks about a 19th / early 20th century barkcloth.

For Museum Remix: Unheard, Sade Ojelade and Eleanor Wilkinson answer your questions about their chosen objects live on YouTube

View an online exhibition by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, celebrating Te Atairangikaahu, Māori Queen.

How should we approach the Queen who became a symbol of the British Empire itself?

Take a look at the Sedgwick Museum archive from a different narrative.
 

Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant at The Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about samplers and the role they played for young women in the 17th and 18th century.

Travel to windswept Greenland with a trusty typewriter as your guide

Meet a pioneering geologist, motorcyclist and spy...

A well-travelled typewriter

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science as an institution is not neutral. A response to the colonial 1875 Jigsaw Globe on display in the Museum’s Globe Gallery.

How do you make sure you pass successfully into the Ancient Egyptian afterlife? This Facebook Live video takes us to the Fitzwilliam Museum to visit the Book of the Dead of Ramose.

Early in lockdown, the Getty Museum challenged social media users to recreate artworks from its collection using household objects.

A botanical watercolour reveals the connection between science and empire

An "unbroken marriage of souls"

Photograph with an untold story

Hear the gossip from the royal court... 

Visit an online exhibition featuring two works sculpted nearly 500 years apart. Despite this, the materials, techniques, scale, and the idealisation of the male body are similar. Intrigued? 

Julia, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide at The Polar Museum, talks to us about an egg laid by an Adélie penguin in the early 20th century.

Sacred carvings made by the Nenets people of North Siberia

How the Saka people of the Great Steppe made history and great art.

An exhibition of photographs by Robert McCabe

Who gets to define disability?

Meet the French Empress and her botanical namesake

Charlotte Connelly, Curator at The Polar Museum, tells us about some atmospheric ink drawings and scrimshaw created by whalers voyaging in the Arctic.

A small plate with a big story

The combined histories of botanical science and warfare

Dive into the miniature world of tiny marine creatures

An exciting new collection of dinosaur casts was donated to the Sedgwick Museum in 2017. Among them, those of a prehistoric icon: Tyrannosaurus rex.

This piece concerns four broken terracotta figurines from Naukratis, a Greek trading post in Egypt from the Museum of Classical Archaeology. 

This piece concerns two bronze sculptures of Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Imogen Gunn, Collections Manager at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, talks to Nick Oram about a rude Roman pot. 

A new exhibition at Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology illuminates the beautiful, turbulent history of butterflies across the UK.

Enjoy a tour of the Sedgwick Museum's new Collections Research Centre.

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Behind the scenes on Facebook Live in the paper conservation studio with Harry Metcalf, Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, and Hannah Price, UCM Programme Coordinator.

16th-century knights led dangerous lives

Take an LGBTQ+ tour of the Museum of Zoology. 

A poem that gives voice to the unknown subject of two 19th-century photographs

Why does the Whipple Museum of the History of Science have a Scientology E-meter?

A statue is given a voice

The human body is a museum

New clothes for a Queen who became a symbol of the British Empire

"An unbroken marriage of souls"

This piece concerns Mary Anning's Icthyosaur in the Sedgwick museum. What stories of power and memory, gender and colonialism, could this ichthyosaur bring to life?

Watch this film to find out more about Magdalene Odundo, one of the greatest ceramic artists working today, and her practice.

A remarkable Victorian scrapbook

A mask with many unheard stories

‘This Globe is Broken’. A poem about how the globe as an object is not neutral. A response to the colonial 1875 Jigsaw Globe on display in the Whipple Museum’s Globe Gallery.

Royal relationships explored through crockery

Find out more about the oldest modern bird fossil from the age of dinosaurs

Dr Susanne Turner, Curator at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, talks to us about a plaster cast taken from a carved marble head of the ancient Greek god Apollo. 

Meet Little John, a very bony fish and learn about conservation in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

How can we give voice to an enslaved woman who died two thousand years ago?

Even the small sounds of an afternoon can be significant, when you can hear them

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Eliza Spindel, Curatorial and Research Assistant at Kettle's Yard, tells us about a tea bowl from Kettle's Yard and a case of mistaken identity.

200-year-old spectacles that help us see changing attitudes to disability

Enjoy a large collection of paper valentines courtesy of Dr Rebecca Virag and The Fitzwilliam Museum

Discover the origins of the Scott Polar Research Institute as they celebrate 100 years of pioneering research. 

Prehistoric necklaces inspire an intriguing poem

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

A tiny figurine head from Roman Egypt

A major exhibition explores the evolution of island identity on Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia from the Neolithic to the Romans

Enjoy a virtual view of MAA's uly 2022 - April 2023 exhibition, showcasing collections from across our museums, libraries and colleges.

Rebecca Virag talks about the making and meaning of a portfolio of lithographic prints which were commissioned by the British Government’s propaganda department in 1917.

A twist of the hand is an exhibition in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, featuring works by Norwich-based artist James Epps.

A portrait that reveals the relationship between exploration and exploitation

Josh Nall, Curator of Modern Sciences at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, talks about the makers who aim to deceive.

An online exhibition exploring archaeological practice today, with original artwork by Zofia Guertin and Sofia Greaves.

What can a kayak, gut parka and voting badge tell us about climate change?

Next time you are in a museum, think about what items might have been used for, and what kind of society might have created them...

Jack Ashby, Museum Manager at the University Museum of Zoology, tackles taxidermy and its inclusion in Artist: Unknown.

For Museum Remix: Unheard, Liz Hide and Helen Ritchie answer questions about their Museum Remix objects live on YouTube