Travelling through the seasons we will explore the history, folklore and culture of three wild plants in bloom (or at least in foliage!) that month. The session will encourage you to search out plants in all seasons and enjoy the history in folklore and culture, and their use for medicines, cooking as well as the many and varied traditional names which help us trace that history.

Session 1: Sat 21 Jan, Session 2: Sat 4 Feb, Session 3: Sat 18 Feb, Session 4: Sat 4 Mar, Sat 5: Sat 18 Mar

Join Paul Herrington, who will share his top tips and skills to help you to make a start designing your own garden. Across five sessions you will explore design principles, ideas and inspiration, simple surveying and scale drawing, planning for the right plant in the right place as well as developing a layout plan for your own garden and how to ensure year round structure and interest.

Evening opening of the Polar Museum. Grab a drink, browse the museum and drop by our pop-up object handling stations and mini talks.

The programme will include pop-up short talks from our collections staff and co-author of 'Antarctica: A history in 100 objects', Jean Pomereu.

This is a FREE drop in evening for adults.

Evening opening of the Polar Museum. Grab a glass of wine, browse the museum and drop by our pop-up object handling stations and mini talks.

The programme will include pop-up short talks from our collections staff and co-author of 'Antarctica: A history in 100 objects', Jean Pomereu.

This is a FREE drop in evening for adults.

Evening opening of the Polar Museum. Grab a glass of wine, browse the museum and drop by our pop-up object handling stations and mini talks.

The programme will include pop-up short talks from our collections staff and co-author of 'Antarctica: A history in 100 objects', Jean Pomereu.

This is a FREE drop in evening for adults.

This exhibition has been created by two graduate students, Ara Goudsmit and Leo Lahijani, from the Departments of Geography and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Using images, poems and scientific and cultural narratives, they have posed a series of reflective questions for our visitors such as 'What does it mean to disappear' and 'What does the ocean mean to you?'

This is Leo and Ara's description of the exhibition: 

Exploring our icy world from the sky and space 

Enjoy a visit to our new exhibition, which brings together art and science to ask: what do you see when you look at ice from above? 

Museum Remix is back! This two-day workshop gives you the opportunity to create provocative and creative responses to our objects, exploring the theme of Power and Memory.

Your challenge

This year, we're creating audio. How can we retell the stories of our objects in creative new ways through sound?

Working with a team, you'll investigate the collections and create new interpretation, which we'll make accessible to our audiences via digital gallery labels and online.

Do you have an interesting idea for an event or activity at the Museums? Do you want to talk about and see change, bring fresh perspectives?

Well, so do we. This is the space for you!

Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso with Curator Guy Haywood and artist Errol Lloyd.

The tour will include a conversation with the artist that will explore his involvement in the Caribbean Artists Movement.

FREE, come along