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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
21/06/2023
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Free
A new exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
17/08/2023
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Free
A display at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science about pest management in museums.
The Polar Museum
29/11/2023
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free
Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. 
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
01/01/2024
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Free with general Garden admission
Step into a world of winter colour and enjoy the textures, colour and fragrance with an uplifting walk around Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s Winter Garden.The Winter Garden is open every day from 10am and will be looking good until the end of March.
Museum of Zoology
University Museum of Zoology Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ
01/02/2024
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10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Free
NEW - exhibition 'Growing a backbone: Rise of the vertebrates' - discover how and why heads, jaws, teeth & backbones have evolved at our new exhibition, with specimens that have not been on display before. 
The Fitzwilliam Museum
23/02/2024
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pay what you wish for your exhibition visit
Discover William Blake’s universe and a constellation of European artists seeking spirituality in their lives and art in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
02/03/2024
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Free
11/03/2024
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The University of Cambridge Museums are inviting applications from groups of creatives or creative organisations to create a touring Pop-Up Museum in 2024 inspired by the theme: Our Planet.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
12/03/2024
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Free
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
20/03/2024
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Free
Enjoy exploring a selection of winning garden photos
26/03/2024
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Cambridge Pride and the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) are commissioning an emerging creative practitioner to deliver an interactive activity or display on the theme of queerness and inspired by one of the UCM collections.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
28/03/2024
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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Free with normal Garden admission for adults.
Enjoy an egg-citing Easter Trail at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
The Polar Museum
30/03/2024
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free
Try out our pop-up activity station bursting with different activities boxes, puzzles and books.
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
30/03/2024
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Free
Clare, our dinosaur who lives by the Museum steps, has been exploring our galleries. In every display case that she visited, she laid an egg. Can you find them all to win a prize?
The Fitzwilliam Museum
04/04/2024
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
£10 Adult | £8 Concession
Join Dr Clare Carolin, curator and writer (King’s College London) in conversation with artists Margarita Gluzberg and Babar Suleman.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
04/04/2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Free
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
04/04/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
04/04/2024
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free
Discover a magical world of beautiful, tiny fossils which can only be seen with a microscope. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum or at home.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
06/04/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
The Botanic Garden is famous for its beautiful cherry blossoms. Come along to make your own cherry blossom collage using paper and prints.
Museum of Zoology
University Museum of Zoology Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ  
06/04/2024
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Free
Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
09/04/2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Free
Find out about the models scientists have used to explain the world, from a moving model of the solar system to the structure of molecules. 
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
09/04/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
10/04/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Discover a magical world of beautiful, tiny fossils which can only be seen with a microscope. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum or at home.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
10/04/2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Free
Find out about the models scientists have used to explain the world, from a moving model of the solar system to the structure of molecules. 
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
11/04/2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free
An afternoon of family-friendly activities this Easter
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
12/04/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Discover a magical world of beautiful, tiny fossils which can only be seen with a microscope. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum or at home.
Museum of Zoology
University Museum of Zoology Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ
12/04/2024
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
Explore animal sounds and more at the Museum of Zoology with storytime and play for 2-5 year olds.
Museum of Zoology
University Museum of Zoology Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ
13/04/2024
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Free
Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.
Museum of Zoology
University Museum of Zoology Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ  
20/04/2024
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Free
Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
20/04/2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free
Join us at the Fitzwilliam Museum for a day of free activities for all the family! There’s no need to book, just drop-in on the day and get involved.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
21/04/2024
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Free with normal Garden admission.
The World Beneath a Wildflower Meadow
The Polar Museum
22/04/2024
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Free
Join us for our museum wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum!
Kettle's Yard
24/04/2024
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
£12 (£9 Friends, £6 students)
Join us for a special event in the Kettle’s Yard house, where artist Issam Kourbaj will be in conversation with exhibition curator Guy Haywood.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
25/04/2024
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£12 (£5 students), booking recommended
Join us for this year’s New Music concert series, programmed by our New Music Curator Tom McKinney. For the third concert, pianist Eliza McCarthy will take to the Kettle’s Yard Steinway.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
26/04/2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
With art historian, author and curator Dr Amy Tobin.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
27/04/2024
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
£10 Adult | £8 Concession
Take part in a creative writing workshop led by award-winning poet and performance artist Bhanu Kapil.  
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
27/04/2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Free
Explore the spectrum of identities in the Ancient World.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
30/04/2024
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Free
Explore the museum after hours.
Kettle's Yard
30/04/2024
5:00 PM - 7:15 PM
£5, booking required
Kettle's Yard
Kettle’s Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
02/05/2024
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£24 (£5 students), booking recommended
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
04/05/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Bring your imagination along to this session where we will be making, boggarts, pixies and all kinds of magical creatures out of sticks, clay and leaves.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
05/05/2024
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
05/05/2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Free
Kettle's Yard
Kettle’s Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
09/05/2024
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£24 (£5 students), booking recommended
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Murray Edwards College University of Cambridge Cambridge, CB3 0DF
09/05/2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
£15 Adult | £10 Concession
A discussion about artists and visionaries and the struggle between secular reasoning and spiritual awakening.  
Museum of Zoology
University Museum of Zoology Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ
10/05/2024
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
Explore the amazing world of birds at the Museum of Zoology with storytime and play for 2-5 year olds.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
10/05/2024
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pay what you wish for your exhibition visit
Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece Venus and Mars is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
10/05/2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Free
Kettle's Yard
Kettle’s Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
16/05/2024
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£24 (£5 students), booking recommended
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
18/05/2024
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
£35 (£10 Open House Community Card Holders), booking required
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
19/05/2024
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Free with normal Garden admission.
Uncovering the microscopic world of mycorrhizal fungi
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
19/05/2024
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
19/05/2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Free
Kettle's Yard
Kettle’s Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
23/05/2024
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£24 (£5 students), booking recommended
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
23/05/2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Free
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
30/05/2024
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£12 (£5 students), booking recommended
Join us for this year’s New Music concert series, programmed by our New Music Curator Tom McKinney. The Hermes Experiment will be the last concert of the series, offering an exciting finale in the Kettle’s Yard house.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
01/06/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Come along and join us at this event as part of National Children’s Gardening week where we will be decorating planters to grow our own herbs.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
16/06/2024
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Free with normal Garden admission.
Between Roman Agricultural Diffusion and Islamic Green Revolution: Crop diffusion in the 1st millennium CE Middle East and Mediterranean
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
22/06/2024
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Free
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
06/07/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Come along to find out all about these mysterious creatures and make a moth mobile. Speak to the Botanic Garden moth trapping team and find out if they have caught anything in their trap.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
21/07/2024
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Free with normal Garden admission.
The extraordinary ecology of drylands
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
03/08/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Join us to make a scented lavender bag and other lavender crafts to make your home smell wonderful all summer long.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
18/08/2024
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Free with normal Garden admission.
Engineering to study biology: building tools to study an economically important crop disease
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
07/09/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Help wildlife find somewhere to shelter over the winter by making a lovely minibeast hotel that you can put out in your garden or leave in the Schools Garden at the Botanic Garden.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
05/10/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Use colourful autumn leaves to make a fabulous pumpkin artwork for your home.
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard University of Cambridge Castle Street Cambridge CB3 0AQ
22/10/2024
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Free
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
01/11/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Find out about different kinds of mushrooms and make fungi art.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
07/12/2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Free
Make Christmas decorations using natural materials from the Botanic Garden.