Past Projects

This group exhibition is based on the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-chia (1929 – 1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery which he founded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian’s Wall.

Join artist Marcelle Hanselaar to find out more about her practice: namely the fierce and sometimes troubled cohabitation with those raw desires, secret fantasies, uncultivated instincts and our functioning in a civil society.

Jane Joseph is a painter and printmaker, whose etchings to accompany Primo Levi's 'If This is a Man' feature in 'Bearing Witness?'. Join this in-conversation talk to find out more about how the commission came about and her practice at large.

Spanning almost 400 years, this display of prints and drawings explores some of the ways artists have responded to political violence and social injustice. Drawn from collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the display surveys different forms of witnessing: works by artists who had direct experience of horrors, or who grew up in the shadow of terrible events; those who were commissioned to give visual form to the words of others, and those who assimilate in their work the trauma of distant ordeals.

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.

Join us for our wellbeing and making workshops 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 Curator, Anastasia Christophilopoulou, online to learn more about the Museum’s new exhibition and the research project behind it, which began back in 2018. Discover more about the research themes and the overall contribution it has made to its field.

Curator, Anastasia Christophilopoulou talks about the community engagement project and associated artists involved in the Museum’s new exhibition ‘Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean'.

Join us for a walk and talk to explore our Museums and their complex, challenging and contradictory stories of power.

Join us for a relaxed morning for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Join project curator Abigail Baker on a tour of 'Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean’ where she will share her exclusive highlights from the exhibition.

Join us for a talk by Sujit Sivasundaram as he explores human relations with pangolins, colonial histories, Indigenous perspectives and the origins of covid-19.

Join us at the Polar Museum with author Katherine MacInnes to celebrate International Women's Day this March. Discover the untold stories of the race for the South Pole from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it.

Join guest artist Suman Gujral and Heong Gallery, Downing College curator Dr Prerona Prasad as we discuss how today's museums can remain relevant and the role they and artists can play in engaging audiences with the concerns of a 21st century global Britain.

Join Uncomfortable Cambridge to explore how science, empire, and power are connected in the past and present.

Join Uncomfortable Cambridge to explore how science, empire, and power are connected in the past and present.

Join us for an evening of art, talks, crafts, zines, poetry readings, live music, and more!

Inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, ‘Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean’, the theme for Love Art After Dark 2023 is ‘Myths and Legends’ - exploring the power of stories, passed down through generations, to strengthen connections between people and places.

Join us after hours for animal themed board games

Visit the Museum for a day of family activities

Museum of Zoology Assistant Director,Jack Ashby, has decided that platypuses are the best animals to have ever evolved. Find out why at this in - person talk!

Talk by Jack Ashby, Assistant Director, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Join us for a special concert in the Kettle’s Yard House where we will be showcasing musical talent from students of the University of Cambridge.

Join us for a New Music concert in the Kettle's Yard House.

Join us for a New Music concert in the Kettle's Yard House with Supra Nagarajan and Lucy Nolan.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with pianist Iyad Sughayer.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with the London Bridge Trio playing works by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House as we welcome back the Solem Quartet.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House as we welcome back Fenella Humphreys playing a varied programme including baroque works, showpieces from Paganini and newer Celtic folk-inspired works.

Join us for a New Music concert in the Kettle's Yard House with the House of Bedlam.

Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. 

Join us for Studio Sunday and get creative in our Clore Learning Studio.

Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, family activities.

Join the Polar Museum and a team of student costume designers who have recreated one of the most eccentric and beloved items in the museum's collection: Dorothy Irving Bell's polar-themed party costume.

Join the Polar Museum and a team of student costume designers who have recreated one of the most eccentric and beloved items in the museum's collection: Dorothy Irving Bell's polar-themed party costume.

Discover a range of events under the theme of 'Power' at this year's Cambridge Festival.

Join us during the Cambridge Festival as the Classics Faculty's Dr Lea Niccolai re-examines Julian the 'Apostate' and sheds new light on the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.