Arts Pioneers is a monthly art club based at the Fitzwilliam Museum for young people aged 11-19 of mixed abilities. We offer a friendly, supportive and flexible environment to enable young people to work with professional artists and develop their art skills and express their creativity. Assisted by support workers and museum educators, the group explore the over half a million art works and objects, participating in lots of different fun art activities.  

Members of the group work towards an Arts Award, a nationally recognised qualification that supports young people to develop their creative practice and leadership skills. More information about Arts Award

If your child is interested in attending please contact your Social Worker or Disabled Children’s Early Help Co-ordinator, to see whether you can use your personalised budget to join the group. More information about short breaks funding. If you are not in receipt of funding, there is a self-referral form.

If you would like to have an informal chat about the group please speak to Marie mfk25@cam.ac.uk or 01223 332898/ 07707282822. We offer free taster sessions which Marie can organise for you. 

 

What's On

Kettle's Yard
03 Dec 2026
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Join us for an exhibition tour with Kettle’s Yard Assistant Director Susie Biller, and enjoy a behind-the-scenes insight into Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Today.

Kettle's Yard
21 Jan 2027
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Join us for an exhibition tour with Curator & Exhibition Manager Guy Haywood, and enjoy a behind-the-scenes insight into Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Today.

Kettle's Yard
25 Nov 2026
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Join us at Kettle’s Yard for an evening of art, talks, music and making, inspired by our exhibition Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now.

Kettle's Yard
18 Nov 2026
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Join exhibition artist Sunil Gupta and photographer Hal Fischer for an evening exploring queer photography. The conversation will be chaired by art historian Theo Gordon.

Kettle's Yard
27 Jan 2027
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Join us in the Kettle’s Yard house for an evening in conversation with exhibition artist Sunil Gupta and his long term collaborator Charan Singh, chaired by Kettle’s Yard Director Andrew Nairne.

Museum of Classical Archaeology
16 Sep 2026
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Join us on this tour to look beyond the replica and find out some of the stories behind our statues, and why we even have a collection of casts here in Cambridge.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
17 Sep 2026
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science
20 Oct 2026
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Join us for Little Stars, a relaxed morning at the Whipple Museum.

The Polar Museum
29 Aug 2026
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Join us at the Polar Museum for a newly updated Bridging Binaries tour, led by the researcher whose archival investigations have expanded the stories this tour tells.

The Polar Museum
23 Sep 2026
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Join us at the Polar Museum for a free talk from artist John Kelly, the artist behind the 'Polar Panoramas' exhibition. 

Cambridge University Botanic Garden
05 Sep 2026
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Celebrate September with amazing leaf artwork.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
10 Sep 2026
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With British Academy Global Professor Marsha Pearce

The Fitzwilliam Museum
15 Sep 2026
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Enjoy a variety of hands-on creative activities.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
19 Sep 2026
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Join us at the Fitz for our monthly Crafternoon

Kettle's Yard
19 Sep 2026

This major survey exhibition will reveal Sunil Gupta’s (b.1953, New Delhi) pioneering contribution to photography over five decades.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
02 Sep 2026
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
16 Sep 2026
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.
 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
30 Sep 2026
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.
 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
09 Sep 2026
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Join us to celebrate some of the queer histories of the Sedgwick Museum's collections and people.

 

 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
23 Sep 2026
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Join us to celebrate some of the queer histories of the Sedgwick Museum's collections and people.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
29 Aug 2026
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
05 Sep 2026
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
01 Oct 2026
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To celebrate Black History Month this October, join us for our Black History of Science Tour at the Whipple.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
06 Oct 2026
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To celebrate Black History Month this October, join us for our Black History of Science Tour at the Whipple.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
21 Oct 2026
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To celebrate Black History Month this October, join us for our Black History of Science Tour at the Whipple.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
27 Oct 2026
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To celebrate Black History Month this October, join us for our Black History of Science Tour at the Whipple.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
24 Oct 2026
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To celebrate Black History Month this October, join us for our Black History of Science Tour at the Whipple.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
12 Sep 2026
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Play Make Saturday is a free monthly make and play workshop for families.

 

 

The Fitzwilliam Museum
16 Sep 2026
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Join us for relaxed and social sessions in the galleries with your baby or toddler.

 


 

The Fitzwilliam Museum
16 Sep 2026
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Join us for relaxed and social sessions in the galleries with your baby or toddler.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
24 Sep 2026
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Step behind the scenes to discover how cutting-edge research and imaging are helping us learn more about the British landscape artist's works.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
01 Oct 2026
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Get to know Debbie Yeboah

The Fitzwilliam Museum
22 Oct 2026
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Learn how Chinese workshops revolutionised enamel techniques through experimentation with materials and colours in the 1600s

The Fitzwilliam Museum
10 Dec 2026
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Learn how Chinese workshops revolutionised enamel techniques through experimentation with materials and colours in the 1600s

The Fitzwilliam Museum
14 Jan 2027
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Join Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper for a Lunchtime Lecture exploring William Morris' environmentalism

The Fitzwilliam Museum
28 Jan 2027
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Explore the vital role of women in the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movement

The Fitzwilliam Museum
18 Feb 2027
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With Rowan Bain, Principal Curator at the William Morris Gallery

The Fitzwilliam Museum
25 Feb 2027
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Annabelle Campbell, Director of David Parr House, shares this lunchtime talk exploring a remarkable local home

The Fitzwilliam Museum
20 Oct 2026
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Enjoy a variety of hands-on creative activities.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
31 Oct 2026
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Join us at the Fitz for our monthly Crafternoon