Connecting with communities at holiday lunches
In 2025, over 1,000 people engaged with our collections in community centres across Cambridge, supporting Cambridge Sustainable Food and Cambridge City Council’s holiday lunch programme. The programme combines activities and food education, alongside healthy free meals, as part of the community food poverty response in the city. Food insecurity is at the heart of the cost-of-living crisis. A recent food…
Why we still love Latin
As the Museum of Classical Archaeology celebrates 12 years of Latin learning, Education and Outreach Coordinator Martha Heemskerk explores what this ancient language offers to children, volunteers and schools today. Since 2013 the Museum of Classical Archaeology has run a programme of after-school Latin clubs in local state primary schools across Cambridge. In its 12th year, this programme is one…
Exploring the therapeutic effect of object handling
In Autumn 2025, the Arthur Rank Hospice invited the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) to deliver a six-week programme of object-handling sessions for outpatients. Sarah Talks and Rosie Croysdale from the MAA Education Team worked alongside Sophie Wakefield, Art Therapist and Life Celebration Coordinator at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity (ARHC). The sessions took place at Arthur’s Shed, a multipurpose…
