Craftswomen is a new exhibition at the Whipple Museum exploring the work of women in the British instrument trade between the 17th and 19th centuries. It exposes the often unseen work of the ‘craftswomen’ who made instruments for measuring, modelling and investigating the world.

An exciting new exhibition where the displays harness the allure and power of colour to inspire reflection and creativity.

Curated by student intern Eleanor Brittain, Secret Science showcases quirky objects that are not what they seem.

Collecting the Nation examines how geology relates to nationalism and colonialism.

The 2022-23 Chamber Music programme includes a diverse and exciting season of recitals to enjoy in the House at Kettle’s Yard. This year we are delighted to be welcoming back some old favourites as well as new faces to Kettle’s Yard.

Impressions of carnival by Paul Dash, Errol Lloyd & John Lyons in dialogue with works from The Fitzwilliam Museum & Kettle’s Yard

Discover the reflections of two Cambridge students at our Student Voices: What is Nature? display

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.

Spanning almost 400 years, this display of prints and drawings explores some of the ways artists have responded to political violence and social injustice. Drawn from collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the display surveys different forms of witnessing: works by artists who had direct experience of horrors, or who grew up in the shadow of terrible events; those who were commissioned to give visual form to the words of others, and those who assimilate in their work the trauma of distant ordeals.

Join RHS medal-winning garden designer Paul Herrington and start designing your own garden

Join tutor Laura Mayer for a colourful introduction to the Georgian garden

Join us for a walk and talk to explore our Museums and their complex, challenging and contradictory stories of power.  

This course will teach you the science of pruning and maintaining health in woody plants in winter

Join us online for a talk on the heroes behind our collections 

Learn how to create a beautiful illustrations with Janie Pirie on this three part course

Uncover the fascinating stories behind our collections, from the beetles of Charles Darwin to the tale of our fin whale.

Discover animal sounds with stories and play in the Museum.

Become a plant hunter and explore the amazing glasshouse range at Cambridge University Botanic Garden on the hunt for weird and wonderful plants. 

Can you find all the coloured Dinosaurs hidden in the museum?

Get hands-on with engineering, electricity and magnetism at this fun pop-up with Cambridge Science Centre. 

Tactile space-themed art activities for under 5s.

Can you find the aliens hiding within the Museum? Hunt them all down on this space-themed trail. 

Explore Oliver Cromwell’s life with a new free hands-on trail, available only during February half term.

Grab a torch and explore Cambridge’s Victorian Pumping Station, searching for the hidden history of a past worker. Hunt for the clues to piece together their story.

Join us for a relaxed morning for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Find out more about space toys in the Whipple Museum's collections! 

Explore the museum the with lights off with only your torches to guide you. Object handling and museum trails will be available.

Join our assistant curator, Dr Ángela Cano, on this two-day course, journeying through the many dimensions of tropical plant diversity

Learn how to be safe online with Webster the spider.

A fun craft activity where you get to make your very own alien world.

Visit the Museum of Zoology in the dark! Are you brave enough?

Jane Joseph is a painter and printmaker, whose etchings to accompany Primo Levi's 'If This is a Man' feature in 'Bearing Witness?'. Join this in-conversation talk to find out more about how the commission came about and her practice at large.

Explore the Whipple Museum in the dark and find out more about space toys in our collections!

Find out more about space toys in the Whipple Museum's collection and have a go at making your own! 

Have a go at the glasshouse adventure trail after dark and journey through dry deserts, freezing alpine conditions and lush tropical rainforests on the hunt for weird and wonderful plants. 

Explore the Museum after dark and enjoy some alien (and underpants!) themed activities.

Join us for a family friendly exploration of the museum. .

Twilight themed 'shadowy' activities and crafts.

Drop-in for a stained glass trail and craft activities

Get hands-on with Raspberry Pi Pico in this fun workshop.

Learn how to connect everyday objects (like carrots) to a computer with the help of an ingenious device.

Find out more about space toys in the Whipple Museum's collection and have a go at making your own! 

Engage in some friendly competition with other game designers and see if you can win a prize.

Are you brave enough to descend into Hades, the Greek Underworld? Explore our Cast Gallery in a new way as we open late and turn down the lights.

Interact with new artwork explore light & shadow created by artist Georgia Akbar and students from Castle School and enjoy carnival-inspired art-making and story-telling in the galleries.

Discover the Museum after dark...

Help the Code-a-Pillar on his mission to become a beautiful butterfly.

Find out more about space toys in the Whipple Museum's collection and have a go at making your own! 

Explore the Museum after-hours by torchlight

Do you want to learn how to keep your roses healthy, flowering and under control?

Join us for a talk that explores how Western European religious painting was embraced and transformed by women and queer artists working in 19th and 20th century Britain. The talk relates to works from the Fitzwilliam collection.

Join us for a talk by Sujit Sivasundaram as he explores human relations with pangolins, colonial histories, Indigenous perspectives and the origins of covid-19.

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.

Go on a journey through the seasons learning about wild flowers with garden historian Twigs Way

Join us for our wellbeing and making workshops at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative.

Join Curator, Anastasia Christophilopoulou, online to learn more about the Museum’s new exhibition and the research project behind it, which began back in 2018. Discover more about the research themes and the overall contribution it has made to its field.

Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground- breaking practice across six decades.

Learn about what composition is, why it matters in botanical illustration, and how to make a composition work

Uncover the fascinating stories behind our collections, from the beetles of Charles Darwin to the tale of our fin whale.

Learn about this fascinating plant family with Botanic Garden expert Luigi Leoni

Curator, Anastasia Christophilopoulou talks about the community engagement project and associated artists involved in the Museum’s new exhibition ‘Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean'.

Learn tips to tackle your own plot with increased confidence

Go on a journey with garden historian Twigs Ways learning about our seasonal wild flowers

Join project curator Abigail Baker on a tour of 'Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean’ where she will share her exclusive highlights from the exhibition.

Ancient, intimate and political, embroidery is the foremost cultural material of Palestine.

This group exhibition is based on the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-chia (1929 – 1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery which he founded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian’s Wall.