Past Projects

A fun and relaxed course over two days to help you design or re-think your own garden

Citrus fruit is easy to illustrate – if you know how!

It's millipede madness at the Sedgwick Museum this Easter

Find out about the history of this fascinating flower and how to use it in your cookery at home

The second of three linked courses by Garden Historian Twigs Way looking at the origins of plant names

Now is the perfect time to plan for a perfect lawn

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.

This short talk looks at the different ways illuminators used gold, focussing on a small group of richly decorated Italian manuscripts on display in the Upper Marlay gallery.

Using works from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, this online talk will explore how Western European religious painting was embraced and transformed by women and queer artists working in the 19th and 20th century in Britain.

In this beautifully considered exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moments in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

Join us at the Polar Museum for our Family Friendly Opening Day this half-term. Timed, bookable tickets available specifically for children and their carers.
 

Join us for a New Music concert with piano duo Yshani Perinpanayagam and Katherine Tinker.

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 us for the last New Music concert of the 2021/22 season.

Join us in the galleries for an introduction to the exhibition Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt with exhibition Curator Elizabeth Brown.

FREE, come along

Join us as we find out about garden birds and how we can all get involved in the Big Garden Birdwatch. We will be making cardboard binoculars and pinecone bird feeders.

Drop in and learn about fascinating cacti and how they survive life in the desert and have a go at making your own cactus art print.

Find out all about insect body parts and make cool insect artworks at this drop-in session.

Visit beautiful cherry blossoms in the Botanic Garden and then join make a blossom inspired work of art.

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

Learning all about the mysterious world of moths at this workshop. Find out which moths have been captured by the Botanic Garden moth trap and make some moth art.

Drop-in to this workshop and have a go at taking photographs of plants using sunlight. You can also find out the story of Anna Atkins, a brilliant botanist who took thousands of photographs of seaweeds and ferns in a similar way.

Come along to the Schools Garden to have fun planting seeds and taking cuttings to grow at home.

A three-day course painting these showy plants, with attractive flowers of many colours from white to deep purple

Japanese samurai warriors were brave and fearless... in some stories. In others they are peaceful and mild.

Stories change depending on when they were created, who made them and who they were for. What would a samurai story be like if it was made today, by you, for someone special? 

Sold Out. Join art historian Anne Lyles and curator Jane Munro for a unique in-person tour of Hockney's Eye: The art and technology of depiction, focussing on how earlier artists used optical devices to draw.

1-7 March is Facial Palsy Awareness Week

Follow the trail around the museum and find out the Greek and Roman names for planets.

Find out more about some of the people who have made a significant contribution to the museum and its collections.

Take home three original handmade sketchbooks and the knowledge to continue making books at home

Join double RHS gold-medal winning artist Janie Pirie to create amazing botanical illustrations

Find out about aromatherapy and essential oils, look at some of the commonly used oils and explore the plants they come from

Discover fun methods to develop your sketching in Cambridge Botanic Garden with illustrator Karin Eklund

Trace Repton's career from its picturesque beginnings to the Gardenesque style which changed England’s relationship with nature forever

Explore the chemistry of a range of our “Five a Day” giving you a very different view on the vegetable plot

This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the aromatic world of culinary herbs

A relaxed and creative half day of sketching plants outside in the Garden

Explore our Mediterranean plantings and find out how you can bring the scents and colours of the south to your own back garden

Find out the histories behind the names and let the binomial system lead you down a garden path blooming with adventure and discovery