Becoming an Arts Pioneer

Pop into the Museum for lots of FREE fun family activities!

Explore animal sounds and more at the Museum of Zoology with storytime and play for 2-5 year olds.

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

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

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

Explore the amazing world of birds at the Museum of Zoology with storytime and play for 2-5 year olds.

An immense archive of plant diversity: the many uses of the Cambridge University Herbarium.

The World Beneath a Wildflower Meadow

Discover a magical world of beautiful, tiny fossils which can only be seen with a microscope. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum or at home.

Uncovering the microscopic world of mycorrhizal fungi

With art historian, author and curator Dr Amy Tobin.

Take part in a creative writing workshop led by award-winning poet and performance artist Bhanu Kapil.

Join Dr Clare Carolin, curator and writer (King’s College London), in conversation with author and journalist Hadani Ditmar and artists Margarita Gluzberg and Babar Suleman.

A discussion about artists and visionaries and the struggle between secular reasoning and spiritual awakening.

Explore the museum after hours.

Discover a magical world of beautiful, tiny fossils which can only be seen with a microscope. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum or at home.

Discover a magical world of beautiful, tiny fossils which can only be seen with a microscope. Use them as inspiration to make a springtime decoration to display in the Museum or at home.

Between Roman Agricultural Diffusion and Islamic Green Revolution: Crop diffusion in the 1st millennium CE Middle East and Mediterranean

The extraordinary ecology of drylands

Engineering to study biology: building tools to study an economically important crop disease

Clare, our dinosaur who lives by the Museum steps, has been exploring our galleries. In every display case that she visited, she laid an egg. Can you find them all to win a prize?

Find out about the models scientists have used to explain the world, from a moving model of the solar system to the structure of molecules. 

Find out about the models scientists have used to explain the world, from a moving model of the solar system to the structure of molecules. 

An afternoon of family-friendly activities this Easter

Join us at the Fitzwilliam Museum for a day of free activities for all the family! There’s no need to book, just drop-in on the day and get involved.

Cambridge Pride and the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) are commissioning an emerging creative practitioner to deliver an interactive activity or display on the theme of queerness and inspired by one of the UCM collections.

Explore the spectrum of identities in the Ancient World.

What could the world look like in 2050 if climate emergency was halted, global inequalities balanced, and differences between us were celebrated?

Explore the spectrum of identities in the Ancient World.

Explore the spectrum of identities in the Ancient World.

Explore the spectrum of identities in the Ancient World.

Join acclaimed authors Ajay Tegala and Zoë Howe as they lift the lid on local legends, celebrate spring and honour the land in an intriguing hour of botany and folklore you won’t want to miss!