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…
Exploring AI at the Museum of Zoology
For the last year, the Museum of Zoology has invited the public to chat to museum animals in an innovative AI experiment. What has the Museum learnt? Since October 2024, visitors have been able to ‘chat’ with 13 specimens in the Museum of Zoology, from the dodo and the fin whale to a cockroach or a butterfly. You simply scan…
University of Cambridge Museums Activity Update, 1 July – 30 September 2024
Covering the period 1 July – 30 September 2024, this report provides an insight into some of the stories behind our NPO-funded activity delivered under our Collections In Action programme themes: Social Justice, Our Planet, Creating Opportunities, and Health and Wellbeing, as well as our underpinning Programme Enablement activity. Our main themes of Social Justice, Our Planet, Creating Opportunities, Health…
