Discover animal senses, feel textures handling real museum specimens, and uncover amazing stories of the evolution of animal colours. We will be joined by researchers working on the bright colours of passion vine butterflies, the changing populations of UK moths and more.
Drop-in. No need to book.
This event is part of the Cambridge Festival.
Date:
Saturday, 29 March, 2025 - 10:30 to 16:30
Today, natural history museums are starting to research the full histories of how their collections were built, and this can bring to light some surprising and troubling stories. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, are icons of extinction, and some of the world’s best-preserved specimens are in Cambridge’s University Museum of Zoology. New research there has uncovered an uncomfortable truth about how the history of the extinction of the thylacine had strong parallels with the violent events that took place in Tasmania in the nineteenth century.
According to the late antique historian Orosius, the appearance of Augustus as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire was part of God’s plan for the Christianisation of the world: “Caesar’s empire was established with a view to the future coming of Christ”.
Join Tim Whitmarsh to explore to what extent did the spread of early Christianity depend on the emergence of the new world order. Is the success story of the new cult separable from that of the new political dispensation?
This event is part of Cambridge Festival.
Classics is thriving in Ghana. It is taught in two public universities (the University of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast) and undergraduate numbers there are bigger than here in Cambridge, and still growing. Classics Beyond Borders is a new initiative in the Faculty of Classics that has formed a collaboration with the University of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast to learn about how colleagues there have dealt with the challenge of decolonisation, increased student numbers over the years, and reinvigorated the discipline.
Join Curator, Dr Susanne Turner, on a journey around the Museum of Classical Archaeology's Cast Gallery, to explore how the sculpting of the body changes over 1000 years of Graeco-Roman sculpture. Why do bodies look stiff and frontal at the start of the Gallery? And what gets them moving as you walk through?
This event is part of Cambridge Festival.
Starting on International Women's Day, Saturday 8th March 2025 - discover the research projects of twenty women scientists in zoology. Labels throughout the Museum will introduce you to the women working in science today and explain the amazing research work that they are undertaking in the Department of Zoology.
Much more information on each of these researchers will be available on our blog - click here to find out more.
Join us on Saturday 8 March for a series of short talks from women in science. Our amazing women scientists will be sharing their research work and how they began their career in science. Talks will take place in our Discovery Room, in the Lower Gallery. Each talk will be about 15 minutes long, with a five minute break between talks.
The morning session starts at 10.30am until 12.30pm and the afternoon session starts at 2pm until 4pm. No need to book, just drop in. More details of the full programme to follow!
This one hour talk at Museum of Zoology is focused on the probable nature of extraterrestrial life, including the degree to which it is likely to be similar to life here on Earth. It seems timely to consider this issue now, when we are on the verge of discovering our first evidence for life beyond our home planet.
Paint What Matters! celebrates the creativity and voices of young artists (aged 4 – 21) in Cambridge who have shared what matters to them. They are the artists of the future and we want to support and encourage their development going forward.
However, there are challenges in moving this into action.
Join Jane Sillis, Director of Engage (National Association for Gallery Education), as she invites a panel of Cambridge experts to share and discuss positive ways forward for young artists aged 4 – 21 years.
Enjoy celebrating all things apple at Apple Day 2025 in Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Highlights include:
🍎 Apple tasting & sales: many heritage varieties to taste and/or buy (you can purchase with cash or card)
🍎 Apple identification: apple experts from the East of England Apples and Orchards Project will be on hand to identify apples. Bring your unidentified apples along to the team, preferably with stalk and leaf attached to help with accurate identification.
