Past Projects

Join us in St Peter’s Churchyard, just next door to Kettle’s Yard, for free, practical art making workshops.

Join us in St Peter’s Churchyard for free, practical art making activities. Be inspired by Kettle’s Yard and make your own artworks. Pick up one of our family art activity packs and get creative with our artists. You can collect your materials to make outside at Kettle’s Yard or take them home with you.

A special event at the Sedgwick Museum aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability. 

A special event at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability. 

A special event at the Fitzwilliam Museum aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability. 

Three artists using clay, Jayne Ivimey, Elspeth Owen and Mella Shaw, talk about their upcoming group exhibition Breaking Point: fragility in clay and nature which is on show at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Soon after the Greek Revolution, the Acropolis was cleared of its Medieval buildings. Byzantine icons too were shunned, even in University Museum collections. This lecture touches on icons in the Fitzwilliam but focuses on the fate of one icon in the Yale University Art Museum, acquired in 1871, but hidden in its storeroom until now.

Join Rebecca Roberts, Curator of Gold of the Great Steppe, for an online talk introducing the exhibition, its themes and highlight objects.

As we take in the splendour and beauty of the gold artefacts from the Great Steppe, we can’t help but wonder about their prehistoric makers and users: Where did they obtain the precious metal? What tools and techniques did they employ to turn it into the elaborate artefacts we admire today? How did they learn their skills? Were these objects used in life, or made for the dead? Scientific analyses provide some answers but also raise new questions.

Join us online for a conversation between ceramic artist Magdalene Odundo DBE and organising Curator, Helen Ritchie, who will discuss Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge.

Join Fitzwilliam Museum Curator, Helen Ritchie, for a brief introduction (approx. 30 minutes) to Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge. Curated by ceramic artist Magdalene Odundo DBE, this display marks 50 years since Odundo moved from Kenya to Cambridge to study at Cambridge School of Art and brings together a selection of global collections from Cambridge collections with examples of her own unmistakeable work.

Join Rebecca Roberts, Curator of Gold of the Great Steppe, for a spotlight talk in the 'Gold of the Great Steppe' exhibition, introducing key themes and highlight objects.

Drawing from our rich holdings of paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculpture, ‘Women: makers and muses’ is the first display in an on-going series highlighting work by women throughout the history of art and from across the globe. A series of films made in response to the display in which curators offer further thoughts on featured artworks will be followed by a Q&A with Jane Munro and Rebecca Birrell.

An exclusive early morning tour of our exhibition, Gold of the Great Steppe (opening 28 September), with members of the team behind the show.

Gold of The Great Steppe will display an archaeological sensation. Hundreds of outstanding 2,700 year old gold artefacts recently discovered in the extraordinary ancient burial mounds built by the Saka people in East Kazakhstan will be exhibited for the first time in the UK.

Pick up a special animal card on your way into the Garden this autumn to create your own artwork as you explore with your family.

Have fun screen printing onto textiles taking inspiration from the plants at the Garden

A series of courses giving a comprehensive introduction to horticulture across the gardening year

A series of courses giving a comprehensive introduction to horticulture across the gardening yearA series of courses giving a comprehensive introduction to horticulture across the gardening year

Explore, experience and learn how watercolour works with professional painter John Wiltshire

Join tutor Jackie Bennett in a journey through gardens and poetry

Join tutor Laura Mayer for a morning examining the man behind the famous nickname

Join Paul Herrington to explore how we can celebrate water in our gardens, however big or small

Explore the medieval view of illness, and the plants involved in the prevention and treatment of disease

An introduction to the simple technique of drypoint etching and chine collé

Explore the lives and plant contributions of these overlooked women plant collectors from the 18th – 20th centuries

A series of courses giving a comprehensive introduction to horticulture across the gardening year

Taking inspiration from the Garden, come and join Caroline Henricksen for a fun relaxing and creative day paper collaging flowers

Explore the history and ecology of the boulder-clay woods of Cambridgeshire and its region

Try something new with this perfect sized beginners' project

Start your festive season and make your own garden-inspired festive wreath

Start your festive season and make your own garden-inspired festive wreath

Enjoy a day creating Christmas decorations with rush and willow

Join us at the Polar Museum for our Family Friendly Opening Day this half-term.

Join us at the Polar Museum with renowned storyteller Marion Leeper to explore life under water.

‘The Tippett Quartet’s performances are little
short of astonishing’ – The Times

Join us as we welcome our Chamber Music concerts back to Kettle’s Yard.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring Nicholas Daniel, oboe and Huw Watkins on piano.

Some of the best oboe playing you’ll hear anywhere. Record Review

Tabea Debus is one of the most exciting young musicians in the early music worldClassic FM

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring Tabea Debus on recorder and Toby Carr on lute.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring the Gould Piano Trio.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring the Marsyas Trio.