Magdalene Odundo DBE is one of the greatest ceramic artists working today. Her distinctive, burnished vessels are informed by a range of art and craft traditions from around the world. This display marks 50 years since Odundo moved from Kenya to Cambridge to take an Art Foundation Course at Cambridge School of Art.

Introducing the newly discovered fossil of Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to have ever lived.

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

Exhibition - 'Butterflies Through Time' from 15 March to 18 Sept 2022

Visit this special display as part of your free entry to the Polar Museum.

In this beautifully considered exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moments in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

Join our volunteer guides as they share their personal selection of fascinating stories around gender & sex in the animal world

Dutch Heritage student Alannah Ligthart shares her experiences during her Erasmus placement at the Sedgwick Museum in this co-created temporary display.

We are delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition

Develop your watercolour technique and develop as a watercolour painter with John Wiltshire

Come and see a scale model of the statue of 19th Century palaeontologist Mary Anning, which was recently unveiled in her hometown of Lyme Regis

Learning all about the mysterious world of moths at this workshop. Find out which moths have been captured by the Botanic Garden moth trap and make some moth art.

Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Howardena Pindell: A New Language, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the UK. The exhibition comes to Kettle’s Yard from Fruitmarket, Edinburgh before travelling to Spike Island, Bristol. The exhibition brings together work from Pindell’s six decade long career including paintings, works on paper and video. The exhibition tracks the development of Pindell’s artistic language, and examines her work as exemplary in articulating empowerment. A New Language is organised by the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Spike Island, Bristol  

Join us to celebrate the opening of our next exhibition Howardena Pindell: A New Language at Kettle's Yard.

Learn to illustrate these beautiful insects with artist and tutor Ian Loe, using pencil, pen, watercolour and coloured pencil

Join us for an evening of live music as we open our gates late to host a month of open-air concerts from Cambridge Summer Music

Join us for an evening of live music as we open our gates late to host a month of open-air concerts from Cambridge Summer Music

Calling all 2-5 year olds! Join us at the Museum for stories & play!

From Darwin to Dodos: Join us for a guided tour of the Museum of Zoology

Capturing lost wheat genetic diversity   Webinar Booking: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_psr1SRmgRhOkEQIK5vU9zw

Using the Botanic Garden’s collection explore how variation provides the raw material on which natural selection operates to drive evolution

Join us for an evening of live music as we open our gates late to host a month of open-air concerts from Cambridge Summer Music

Demystify the 'difficult’ groups and learn to understand some of their intriguing beauty

Join us in St Peter’s Churchyard, just next door to Kettle’s Yard, for free, practical art making workshops.

Join us for our new wellbeing and making workshops for adults 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 Head of Horticulture Sally Pettit on this half day course discovering which plants will add scent to your garden

Become a gin explorer in this hands-on and immersive virtual workshop

Join us for an evening of live music as we open our gates late to host a month of open-air concerts from Cambridge Summer Music

Join artist Shelly Perkins and the Polar Museum’s Curator Charlotte Connelly to hear about the long tradition of expedition artists in Antarctica, and Shelly’s own experiences of travelling to Antarctica.

An introduction to the innovative and versatile method of fine art printmaking using sunlight and water

Use scented plants from the Botanic Garden to make your own petal potion to use at bath time.

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

Drop-in to this workshop and have a go at taking photographs of plants using sunlight. You can also find out the story of Anna Atkins, a brilliant botanist who took thousands of photographs of seaweeds and ferns in a similar way.

A two-day course for those wishing to explore the beauty of black and white illustration and learn about tonal values

Discover the best ways to select and care for new trees and shrubs in your garden

Join artist and illustrator Karin Eklund on this five part evening course exploring fun and joyful ways of drawing plants and nature

Take your hand sewing skills further with this traditional Dresden plate ‘chrysanthemum’ block

Explore and deepen your relationship between mindfulness, yourself and your love of nature over 3 separate days 19, 26 Sept and 3 Oct

Join Gwenda Kyd to explore why and how plants have inspired some the of world's finest art

Explore how the Renaissance Garden spread from the landscape and art of southern Europe, to Britain a century after its birth

Explore the varied herbaceous plantings in the Botanic Garden and see different approaches and styles that will hopefully inform and inspire

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

A two-day course studying the basics of leaf variety as well as fruit, seed and nut form

Explore the fungal kingdom, look at our relationship with fungi through the ages and discuss its importance creativity and the arts

The natural world is a great spur to creativity and this evening workshop could be the key to getting you started

Explore Renaissance flower art from backdrop to limelight, Botticelli to da Vinci with Garden Historian Twigs Way

Join tutor Owen Mountford to explore how grazing pastures have developed into a remarkable haven for wildlife

Learn how to make your own round stake and strand basket using willow in a range of rich colours on this two-day workshop

Study these beautiful forms and learn how to illustrate them in pencil and watercolour

Winter provides a wonderful opportunity to focus attention on our conifers

Awaken and sharpen your observational perception, and gain confidence with your drawing skills in this two part course

Join Head of Horticulture Sally Pettit on this half day course discovering which plants will bring valuable colour to your garden in winter

Expert advice on how to care for your roses by Ian Limmer of Peter Beales Roses Ltd

Try something new with this perfect sized beginners' project

Learn how to create a beautiful illustration of green crab apples on this unusual surface

Start your festive season and make your own garden-inspired Christmas wreath

Join this hands-on Christmas spices workshop, to explore this aromatic and evocative world

Start your festive season and make your own garden-inspired Christmas wreath