To celebrate Carbon Literacy Action Day, Molly Stock-Duerdoth, Learning Host and participatory researcher will look at how sustainability and care link objects, people, and the planet. Inspired by the connection between museum practice and the climate emergency, we will discuss histories of care and repair at Kettle’s Yard through its work with collections and communities.
This UK Fungus Day, join us for Fungi Field Day at the Botanic Garden to celebrate fungi and their relationships with plants. Come along to learn, engage and play, and discover what we can do to help conserve the fungal diversity around us.
Highlights include:
🍄 A range of talks from expert speakers about fungi, lichens and slime moulds.
🔬Science outreach stall with microscopes to view fungi that live deep inside plant roots.
Delivered in partnership with local community organisation Dementia Compass since 2012, our Portals to the World programme aims to support museum learning for people with dementia and their care partner.
These free monthly sessions take place across the eight University of Cambridge Museums and the Botanic Garden. Each session combines a short talk with a gallery tour and object handling, specifically designed for those with dementia. Sessions are relaxed, friendly and supportive.
There are two session choices on offer per month on Wednesdays or Thursdays, 2 to 3.30pm.
Explore the Polar Museum with one of the experts! Staff from the museum will offer a brief history of the Scott Polar Research Institute and take you on a mini tour of some of their favourite objects in the collection.
Explore the Polar Museum with one of the experts! Staff from the museum will offer a brief history of the Scott Polar Research Institute and take you on a mini tour of some of their favourite objects in the collection.
To celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition, Through Ice and Fire, drop in to the Polar Museum for the chance to speak to artist Rowan Huntley all about her art and artistic process. Rowan will be chatting to visitors in the Special Exhibitions Gallery from 12pm - 2pm.
In honour of our beautiful Jacobean building, originally Cambridge’s Free School, we’re exploring everything 17th-century, from historic scientific instruments to the secrets of our building. We’re open all day with family activities, curator talks and behind-the-scenes tours. Forsooth, gentles, it will be a merry meeting!
Programme :
Pick up this free trail from the Garden ticket offices to learn about the folklore and mythology surrounding some of our common British trees. The trail will take you on an adventure around the Botanic Garden to learn stories about the magical properties of trees that have been lost to time. Visit all six boards to learn about each tree and collect a stamp of its magical item. Then head to one of the Ticket Offices to gain the magpies’ golden stamp of ‘mischief’.
Grab your pencils and head to the Botanic Garden to have a go at our self-led Autumn Art Adventure. This little booklet is free to pick up from the Ticket Offices and is full of prompts and ideas to help you observe, imagine, scribble and draw as you make your way around the beautiful Garden at autumn time.
Share your artwork with us online! (@CUBotanicGarden)
All ages welcome to join in! Free for children. Normal garden admission charge for accompanying adults.
Drop-in from 10am.
