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.

How do labels and categories affect the stories we choose to tell, or how we connect with each other? How do they affect our interaction with our natural world, and how we imagine the future?

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to more than 450 plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. But why do we have a collection of copies or ‘fakes’?

Join Curator Dr Susanne Turner on this tour of the Museum of Classical Archaeology’s Cast Gallery. The Museum houses a rather unusual collection: instead of original statues, the Cast Gallery is packed with more than 600 historical plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures. But why do we have all these replicas? And how might thinking about copying help us to look differently at ancient sculpture?

Why is there a fin whale skeleton in Cambridge? What can we learn from our Dodo skeleton? What did Darwin collect here and on the Voyage of the Beagle, and what can these collections tell us about him and is ideas on evolution?

Hear these stories and more on an expert guided tour around the Museum of Zoology.

Book your FREE place here

Tours last approx. one hour. 

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Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’

From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?

Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.

Access information

Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from different Arctic cultures.

Meet at Museum entrance. Guide dogs and companions are welcome. The Tour will last 90 minutes.

For bookings and queries please email us at info@museums.cam.ac.uk, or telephone Vanessa Dolphin (Programmes & Communications Assistant) on 01223 761067. You can also leave a message on this number.

Join us for a fantastic whodunit mystery this winter and track down who's been stealing seeds from pinecones. Simply pick up a free Crazy Cone Caper trail on your way into the Garden and start investigating.  On your adventure you will find amazing pinecones from all around the world, discover cool facts and solve puzzles. Have you got the skills to work out which of our six suspects is guilty?

Suitable for all ages. Children must be accompanied. Standard Garden entry charges applies for adults.

Join Kettle's Yard staff for a special audio-described tour of the exhibition, Making New Worlds.

Discover the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-Chia (1929-1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery, which he hounded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian's Wall.

6 places are available plus a space for one companion each if you would like someone to come along with you.  Please indicate both your name and your companion's name when booking.

Join Jacqui Strawbridge, Access & Outreach Officer at the University of Cambridge Museums, and other museum staff for a series of specially-curated tours for blind and visually impaired visitors. 

Explore the stories, legends and history behind the casts at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.  (Please note - our lift is currently out of order)

Delve into the collections at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and learn about the difficult histories inherent in the advancement of scientific knowledge. Age recommendation 10 or older.

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