Travelling back in time, you will learn about the dynamic borders of the tropical region, with a focus on the fossil record. You will then study current patterns of geographic distribution of plant diversity, discovering that it is not homogeneous but dramatically different between continents. You will fly over the tropical belt to understand which regions have the highest species richness, known as “biodiversity hotspots”, and face the strongest threats.
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 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+
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
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our learning volunteers, no previous art experience needed!
Activities are for all but most suitable for children between 3 and 11 years. We like to encourage parents/carers to create alongside their child.
If Studio Sunday is busy, you can still get creative by picking up some of our free art activities from the desk.
About the event
About the event
This talk focuses on the enslavement of white Europeans on the Barbary coast of North Africa between the 16th and 19th century, a time which saw over a million individuals kidnapped from their homes and sold into systematic enslavement. Learn about the capture and transportation of people from the village of Baltimore, Ireland; the relationship between European Barbary pirates/corsairs and African enslavers; and discover how former slaves’ knowledge was used to understand strategic military plans.
