A new temporary art installation co-curated with a group of young people from Parkside Community College and artist Hilary Cox Condron. This creative response to the Museum’s collections and the current climate crisis explores extinction, climate change and hope for the future.
Buy a subscription ticket to the 2024-25 series of Chamber Music concerts at Kettle’s Yard. The subscription ticket gives you entry to all fifteen Chamber Music concerts over the year, saving up to £120. Subscription tickets will be available to collect at the first concert that you attend.
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Downing Street,CambridgeCB2 3DZ
06/12/2024
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Free
An exciting new exhibition which explores interactions between Indigenous communities of the volcanic Pacific region and colonial institutions through historic artefacts and specially commissioned artistic responses.
Learn about the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition.
Join us for this lunchtime lecture and live musical performances exploring the life of George Bridgetower (1778–1860), a London-based virtuoso violinist of African and Polish descent, and his connections to Cambridge.
Faculty of ClassicsSidgwick AvenueCambridgeCB3 9DA We do not have an entrance on the road. Find us inside the Sidgwick Site.
14/03/2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us on Saturday, 15 March, for a free drop-in workshop with artist James Tunnard, where you'll explore colour and light through hands-on activities, including making a mini telescope and designing a colour mobile!
Kettle's YardUniversity of Cambridge Castle Street CambridgeCB3 0AQ
21/03/2025
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Free
Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival. Explore the exhibition after hours and enjoy a drink with friends at our pay bar.
Kettle's YardUniversity of Cambridge Castle Street CambridgeCB3 0AQ
22/03/2025
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Free
This exhibition presents eight contemporary artists whose works offer vantage points on a world in perpetual crisis. Rather than representing specific political events, or taking singular positions, each artist in this exhibition explores broader conditions of domination and conflict, as well as horizons for survival.
Join New York-based Jamaican contemporary artist, academic and award-winning writer Jacqueline Bishop as she talks about her new work Nana (2024), currently on display in our Rise Up exhibition.
Join us for a performance by the Leonore Piano Trio in the Kettle’s Yard house as part of this year’s New Music Concert Series, programmed by our New Music Curator Tom McKinney.
Drop in and meet the scientists of our Department of Earth Sciences. Get stuck into our in hands-on activities and find out what it's like to research fossils, earthquakes, tackle environmental challenges and more.
Feed your curiosity as we bring to life the fascinating stories of science, materials and making behind the artworks and objects in our collection for a day of hands-on, imaginative and free, family-friendly activities. There’s no need to book, simply drop in on the day.
Join us for the Cambridge Festival family weekend opening! The Whipple museum uses its collections to explore, challenge, and share stories from the history of science.
Take a deep dive into the themes of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Rise Up exhibition at this series of listening salons co-facilitated by guests from London creative space Ruby Cruel.
Join us for a performance by Marie Schreer, violin, Taher Adel, poet, and Aaron Holloway-Nahum, electronics, in the Kettle’s Yard house as part of this year’s New Music Concert Series, programmed by our New Music Curator Tom McKinney.
In this lunchtime lecture, join Sarah Coleman – former Articles for Change Project Curator at Wisbech & Fenland Museum – as she reveals the fascinating discoveries made whilst researching the contents of prominent British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson’s (1760-1846) travelling chest.
Faculty of ClassicsSidgwick AvenueCambridgeCB3 9DA We do not have an entrance on the road. Find us inside the Sidgwick Site.
11/04/2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Faculty of ClassicsSidgwick AvenueCambridgeCB3 9DA We do not have an entrance on the road. Find us inside the Sidgwick Site.
10/05/2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Kettle's YardUniversity of Cambridge Castle Street CambridgeCB3 0AQ
15/05/2025
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
£24 (£5 students), booking required
Join us for the second to last Chamber Music concert of the 2024/25 season as we welcome Adrian Bradbury and Andrew West to play in the Kettle’s Yard house.
Join us after-hours at the Museum for a lively evening of art, music, conversation and engaging workshops inspired by Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition.
Join us for a performance by Joseph Havlat, piano, and Deni Teo, cello, in the Kettle’s Yard house as part of this year’s New Music Concert Series, programmed by our New Music Curator Tom McKinney.
Kettle's YardUniversity of Cambridge Castle Street CambridgeCB3 0AQ
12/07/2025
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Free
This new exhibition by one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated contemporary artists will present new paintings, a special installation made in collaboration with Magda Stawarska and ‘interventions’ in the Kettle’s Yard house.
Kettle's YardUniversity of Cambridge Castle Street CambridgeCB3 0AQ
15/11/2025
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Free
The first major solo exhibition of Harold Offeh’s work in a UK institution, this exhibition will bring together a selection of works from the artist’s career, revealing ambitious projects that have taken place across the world.
