Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from different Arctic cultures.
Meet at Museum entrance. Guide dogs and companions are welcome. The Tour will last 90 minutes.
For bookings and queries please email us at info@museums.cam.ac.uk, or telephone Vanessa Dolphin (Programmes & Communications Assistant) on 01223 761067. You can also leave a message on this number.
Join Kettle's Yard staff for a special audio-described tour of the exhibition, Making New Worlds.
Discover the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-Chia (1929-1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery, which he hounded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian's Wall.
6 places are available plus a space for one companion each if you would like someone to come along with you. Please indicate both your name and your companion's name when booking.
Join us for our museum 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. Making new crafts, making space for yourself, and making new connections. A chance for you to explore working with different materials and learn new skills with others. This session we will be using and creating stencils to create blended glitter art. We will be discussing polar light phenomena.
Join us for our museum 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. Making new crafts, making space for yourself, and making new connections. A chance for you to explore working with different materials and learn new skills with others. This session we will be making pop-up polar cards and talking about love in the polar regions.
For ages 16+
Discover some of the fascinating themes in the museum with our tea and talk programme for adults. Each session will have a 40-minute talk followed by a chance to chat with the experts and your fellow attendees over a cuppa. For this session our museum collections coordinator, Henrietta Hammant will be exploring the near misses of Antarctic explorers.
For ages 16+
Join Jacqui Strawbridge, Access & Outreach Officer at the University of Cambridge Museums, and other museum staff for a series of specially-curated tours for blind and visually impaired visitors.
Explore the stories, legends and history behind the casts at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. (Please note - our lift is currently out of order)
Secondary and sixth form art teachers, join artist Anna Brownsted in this teacher CPD to play games of chance, explore creative cause and effects and experi
Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new.
This display is part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Power and Memory programme.
Available to view during museum opening hours 10am – 4pm, Tues-Sat.
To celebrate the opening of Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends, join artist Bettina Fung at West Court Gallery, Jesus College for a live drawing performance of Towards All & Nothing. This work has been developed through the processes of researching and remembering the work of Li Yuan-chia and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery.
