Becoming an Arts Pioneer

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

Learn more about the sky at night. Experiment with moving models, and create your own orrery or map of a planet.

Join the Museum of Cambridge after hours, and explore the Museum in a different light...

Join the Museum of Cambridge after hours, and explore the Museum in a different light...

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.

Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from polar history.

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.

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.

MUSE, our series of practical art workshops for adults, is returning to the Museum in person! Take inspiration from portraits displayed as part of Hockney’s Eye.

Pasties and pigmies: the plant galls and leaf-miners of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Webinar Booking: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kOHssm6QRy2OEJohx2LURQ

Plant memory: form and function in a decentralised ‘brain’

Webinar Booking: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rPdeNlfQRZOOPsia5-a8uw

Capturing lost wheat genetic diversity

Webinar Booking: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_psr1SRmgRhOkEQIK5vU9zw

This online talk will position Peter Apian and his book production within its early modern scientific milieu, the long intellectual history from which it emerged, as well as more recent innovations in printing and the production of paper tools.

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

Join us as we chat to a panel of female scientists to celebrate International Women's Day 2022. Have your questions ready!

Exhibition - 'Butterflies Through Time' from 15 March to 18 Sept 2022

This exhibition presents artist John Kelly’s field explorations on two very contrasting islands

Introducing the newly discovered fossil of Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to have ever lived.

Join the exhibition curators for a unique in-person introductory tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum portion of Hockney's Eye, an exhibition exploring David Hockney’s interactions with artists of the past and with technologies of viewing, both past and present.

1-7 March is Facial Palsy Awareness Week

Bring the whole family to the museum for an afternoon of fun with our casts, trails and plasticine. 

Visit this special display as part of your free entry to the Polar Museum.

Join us at the Polar Museum with artist Alice White, to explore where science and art collide and discover how the spirit of exploration is shared by artists and scientists alike.

Join our volunteer guides as they share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.

Tours start on April 3rd and run across the summer. 

Join us for an evening of board games in the Museum! Grab a drink and try and beat your opponents playing a series of animal themed games amongst the Museum's skeletons. 

It's millipede madness at the Sedgwick Museum this Easter.

It's millipede madness at the Sedgwick Museum this Easter

Botanical poetry readings in the Botanic Garden

In the Garden classroom or online (book onto webinar via CUBG website)

Come and visit the Earth Clinic on Saturday 23rd April at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. 

An opportunity to hear artist John Kelly discuss his Two Islands exhibition, currently showing at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, in conversation with Museum Director Liz Hide

Join Dr Daniel Field for a talk on the avian fossil record and the origin of modern bird diversity.

Discover more about the records that scientists leave behind, what they tell us about their work and life, and how they can be used for historical research.

Join us for our new wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative.

Join us online as expert Matt Hayes talks about butterflies past and present. 

Join us for our new wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative.

From Darwin to Dodos: Join us for a guided tour of the Museum

From Darwin to Dodos: Join us for a guided tour of the Museum