A fun-filled, fact-finding day out with something for everyone to enjoy: from gardeners to budding plant scientists; families to photographers or anyone looking to spend an interesting day in the Garden when it is is brimming with summer colour.
Highlights include:
🌸 A variety of free, guided Garden tours (bookable on the day).
🌸 Pop-up, family-friendly interactive plant science stalls where University researchers demonstrate some of the latest findings from the world of plant science.
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for The Power Walk series - an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
Join Nicolette Jones for this special 45-minute guided tour of the exhibition. Jones is co-curator of the exhibition and the author of two books about Briggs – Blooming Books (Cape) and The Illustrators: Raymond Briggs (Thames & Hudson).
This event is being hosted as part of Cambridge University Libraries' exhibition, Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective (29 April - 26 August 2023). You are welcome to enjoy exploring the exhibition before or after the tour.
Join our guide for a 45-minute British Sign Language tour of our exhibition, Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective. Interpretation is being provided by the Cambridgeshire Deaf Association.
This event is being hosted as part of Cambridge University Libraries' exhibition, Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective (29 April - 26 August 2023).
Uncover the fascinating stories behind our collections, from the beetles of Charles Darwin to the tale of our fin whale.
Why is there a fin whale skeleton in Cambridge? What can we learn from our Dodo skeleton? What did Darwin collect here and on the Voyage of the Beagle, and what can these collections tell us about him and is ideas on evolution? Hear these stories and more on a guided tour around the Museum of Zoology.
FREE. Please book ahead. Suitable: All ages
Uncover the fascinating stories behind our collections, from the beetles of Charles Darwin to the tale of our fin whale.
Why is there a fin whale skeleton in Cambridge? What can we learn from our Dodo skeleton? What did Darwin collect here and on the Voyage of the Beagle, and what can these collections tell us about him and is ideas on evolution? Hear these stories and more on a guided tour around the Museum of Zoology.
FREE. Please book ahead. Suitable: All ages
Tuesday to Saturday each week, 10am - 4pm
Closed on Good Friday, 7 April 2023
Pick up our Egg-cellent Penguins trail at the Polar Museum this Easter break. Using ultraviolet light torches, find the hidden clues to lead you to the missing penguin!
Also available - our Children's Audio Guide is free on the Smartify app for you to listen to on your own device, or just £1.50 per child to hire a handset in the museum.
Children are not exact copies of their parents, instead they get a mix of traits from both parents. This is due to trait reassortment that occurs during the formation of eggs and sperm.
The same is true for plants. How does this happen? What can go wrong? What does it mean for crops?
This talk will look at what happens with parental traits when plants reproduce through seed, ask how seedless fruit are made and talk about recent discoveries in trait reassortment control that can help breeders improve crops.
Hidden beneath the surface of every lake, river, stream and pond live trillions of diverse and ecologically important microorganisms. Invisible to the naked eye, these bacteria and fungi play a critical role in decomposing dead plant material and smaller biomolecules, such as cellulose, starch and peptides, that are washed into aquatic systems.
