Ever since prehistoric painters used constellations to decorate rocks, people have always been interested in the moon, stars and planets. Explore the solar system with orreries, astrolabes and telescopes, check out globes of the moon and planets and invent your own constellation!
Ever since prehistoric painters used constellations to decorate rocks, people have always been interested in the moon, stars and planets. Explore the solar system with orreries, astrolabes and telescopes, check out globes of the moon and planets and invent your own constellation!
Ever since prehistoric painters used constellations to decorate rocks, people have always been interested in the moon, stars and planets. Explore the solar system with orreries, astrolabes and telescopes, check out globes of the moon and planets and invent your own constellation!
Join Great St Mary's for an evening of music and activities, as we are invited by one of Cambridge’s world class choirs to watch them rehearse for a service of Compline (night prayer).
Prior to the rehearsal, from 6pm you can explore how the cycle of the moon shapes the calendars of the three Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. See how the dates of Easter, Ramadan, and Hanukkah depend on the stage of the moon, and consider how people pray at different times of day and night.
As part of Twilight at the Museums, explore the Cambridge Museum of Technology's very own UV (ultra violet) light trail and follow the clues to pick up a prize.
Find out about the shadowy past of the Victorian Pumping Station, make your own shadow puppets to cast light on a murky history.
Discover how to generate your own electricity, build electrical circuits and create light, movement and sound.
Learn how to code the micro:bit to become a light-sensitive wake-up alarm at the Centre for Computing History. Put it under a lamp with a timer and you're all good to go!
We need an extra prod to wake up on cold, dark mornings! Making it digital and something you have programmed will be even more cool (at least you won't be irritated when it won't let you sleep in!).
Join Cambridge Science Centre during its Space Week and get hands-on with interactive exhibits.
Especially for Twilight at the Museums, explore the everyday and the inter-galactic in this fun-filled evening, from light you can see to light you can't.
Free. Booking required.
The Museum of Cambridge is delighted to once again be involved in Twilight at the Museums.
Join an evening of exploration and see the Museum in a new Light. Magic Lanterns - popular image projectors used for entertainment and education for 250 years - will guide you through a story of Cambridge's history in this one-of-a-kind event. The Museum will highlight some key objects from its collection relating to both the story and lights in the city.
Explore the Garden’s glasshouse range after dark to join in with our night-time hunt for orchids! Discover amazing species from all around the world and learn about the clever adaptations of orchids, from their spongy, water-absorbing roots to their tiny dust-like seeds. With more orchid species than birds and mammals combined, this adventure is filled with wonders from the plant world!
Join us for a night-time adventure at our special after-hours opening for families. We are turning our lights down very low, so bring a torch and search the museum for dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, some of whom roamed Cambridgeshire hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Drop in to our hands-on activity stations for further investigations: discover minerals that glow in the dark under UV light and explore beautiful, colourful minerals close up, under our powerful microscopes.
