Visit the Museum of Zoology after hours for animal-themed board games. Grab a drink from the Whale Café, play strategy games, create canine chaos or battle to be the best in our Hungry Hungry Hippos Tournament. The Museum Shop will be open throughout the event, and the Whale Café will be serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks to purchase. With space to play your own games or be guided by experts from Heffers Games of Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge. 

Ages 18+  

£5 per person 

Join the Museum of Cambridge after hours, to explore the museum under a different light. Pick up a self-guided trail, and start discovering what fascinating secrets hide in the dark corners of a 300-year-old former inn.

Join the Museum of Cambridge after hours, to explore the museum under a different light. Pick up a self-guided trail, and start discovering what fascinating secrets hide in the dark corners of a 300-year-old former inn.

Join the Museum for candlelight storytelling, explore the darkened museum with torches, hunt for hidden night-time creatures, and create a puppet for your own storytelling.

Take a tour round St Ives as it gets dark and see the town in a different light. Learn about some of the darker things that may - or may not -have gone on in the past…

Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga has for some years been working with world-leading technology researchers to create the Cyborg Soloists project. A multimedia extravaganza, this unmissable season finale will incorporate roller-coaster visuals with themes ranging from the cult of Celtic river goddesses to the simplicity of wind in the trees.

With the link between Dinosaurs and birds now firmly established, work to uncover how and when modern bird diversity arose is well underway. Assistant Professor Daniel Field, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge and Strickland Curator of Ornithology, University Museum of Zoology will discuss some of the exciting new discoveries he and his research group have made including finding one of the best preserved fossil bird skulls in the world.

Join us for a New Music concert with soprano Juliet Fraser.

Join us for the first concert in our New Music 2021/22 series. Bastard Assignments and Kathryn Williams will be performing in the House.

Join us for our next in-person teachers evening exploring the new exhibition Sutapa Biswas: Lumen with artist Lucy Steggals.

Find out more about contemporary artists, test out creative responses and catch up with other teachers and the Kettle’s Yard team.

£5, booking required

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