Explore the Collections

Watch a film about one of the most provocative pieces in the Museum of Classical Archaeology's Cast Gallery.

Discover the evolutionary tale of the chimpanzee and bonobo.

Ellen, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide for the University of Cambridge Museums, talks about a statue representing Durga, found in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Enjoy a tour of the Sedgwick Museum's new Collections Research Centre.

Meet Little John, a very bony fish and learn about conservation in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

How do you make sure you pass successfully into the Ancient Egyptian afterlife? This Facebook Live video takes us to the Fitzwilliam Museum to visit the Book of the Dead of Ramose.

Meet Titus, the titan arum plant with a very distinctive smell.

Remember Titus, Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s stinky corpse flower? He’s had babies...

Behind the scenes on Facebook Live in the paper conservation studio with Harry Metcalf, Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, and Hannah Price, UCM Programme Coordinator.

Enjoy a large collection of paper valentines courtesy of Dr Rebecca Virag and The Fitzwilliam Museum

Why does the Whipple Museum of the History of Science have a Scientology E-meter?

Imogen Gunn, Collections Manager at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, talks to Nick Oram about a rude Roman pot. 

What can a kayak, gut parka and voting badge tell us about climate change?

Rebecca Virag talks about the making and meaning of a portfolio of lithographic prints which were commissioned by the British Government’s propaganda department in 1917.

Dr Susanne Turner, Curator at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, talks to us about a plaster cast taken from a carved marble head of the ancient Greek god Apollo. 

Nicholas Thomas, Director at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, talks about a 19th / early 20th century barkcloth.

Josh Nall, Curator of Modern Sciences at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, talks about the makers who aim to deceive.

Eliza Spindel, Curatorial and Research Assistant at Kettle's Yard, tells us about a tea bowl from Kettle's Yard and a case of mistaken identity.

Charlotte Connelly, Curator at The Polar Museum, tells us about some atmospheric ink drawings and scrimshaw created by whalers voyaging in the Arctic.

Jack Ashby, Museum Manager at the University Museum of Zoology, tackles taxidermy and its inclusion in Artist: Unknown.

Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant at The Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about samplers and the role they played for young women in the 17th and 18th century.

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Listen to poems written by Year 8 students from Cromwell Community College as part of a Heritage Fund project called 'Pacific Currents'.

Julia, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide at The Polar Museum, talks to us about an egg laid by an Adélie penguin in the early 20th century.

We need a biopic about him ASAP

Meet Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour guide Tim Drummond and the Museum of Zoology's Emperor Penguin

Photograph with an untold story

How do we untangle complex colonial histories to reach the unnamed sitter of these portraits?

Why are we reluctant to engage with the idea of a woman taking part in a battle?

How should we approach the Queen who became a symbol of the British Empire itself?

Who counts as a scientist?

An audience with collectors Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon

Royal relationships explored through crockery

A remarkable Victorian scrapbook

A small plate with a big story

An intriguing pair of necklaces from early human history

A mask with many unheard stories

Diamonds with a dark past

A well-travelled typewriter

Game Designer Elizabeth Simoens invites Exhibitions and Display Coordinator at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Rob Theodore, to her island to visit the museum.

The human body is a museum

For Museum Remix: Unheard, Liz Hide and Helen Ritchie answer questions about their Museum Remix objects live on YouTube

A tiny figurine head from Roman Egypt

16th-century knights led dangerous lives

A botanical watercolour reveals the connection between science and empire

200-year-old spectacles that help us see changing attitudes to disability

An "unbroken marriage of souls"

A portrait of an unknown woman

A statue is given a voice

Even the small sounds of an afternoon can be significant, when you can hear them

Travel to windswept Greenland with a trusty typewriter as your guide

Prehistoric necklaces inspire an intriguing poem

A poem that gives voice to the unknown subject of two 19th-century photographs

Dive into the miniature world of tiny marine creatures

Objects from across the University of Cambridge Museums as you've never heard them before...

For Museum Remix: Unheard, Sade Ojelade and Eleanor Wilkinson answer your questions about their chosen objects live on YouTube

A portrait that reveals the relationship between exploration and exploitation

How can we give voice to an enslaved woman who died two thousand years ago?

Sacred carvings made by the Nenets people of North Siberia

Objects from the University of Cambridge Museums as you've never seen them before...

Who gets to define disability?

"An unbroken marriage of souls"

Next time you are in a museum, think about what items might have been used for, and what kind of society might have created them...

New clothes for a Queen who became a symbol of the British Empire

Meet the French Empress and her botanical namesake

The combined histories of botanical science and warfare