Arts Pioneers is a monthly art club based at the Fitzwilliam Museum for young people aged 11-19 of mixed abilities. We offer a friendly, supportive and flexible environment to enable young people to work with professional artists and develop their art skills and express their creativity. Assisted by support workers and museum educators, the group explore the over half a million art works and objects, participating in lots of different fun art activities.  

Members of the group work towards an Arts Award, a nationally recognised qualification that supports young people to develop their creative practice and leadership skills. More information about Arts Award

If your child is interested in attending please contact your Social Worker or Disabled Children’s Early Help Co-ordinator, to see whether you can use your personalised budget to join the group. More information about short breaks funding. If you are not in receipt of funding, there is a self-referral form.

If you would like to have an informal chat about the group please speak to Marie mfk25@cam.ac.uk or 01223 332898/ 07707282822. We offer free taster sessions which Marie can organise for you. 

 

What's On

The Fitzwilliam Museum
14 Jun 2025
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Play Make Saturday is a free monthly make and play workshop for families.

The Polar Museum
29 May 2025
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Drop in for a craft, object handling and the chance to learn all about the art of navigation. 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
09 Jun 2025
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Join us online this International Archives Day as we uncover missing voices and stories of women from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
25 Jun 2025
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Join us for a geological chill-out after hours at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, as we celebrate Pride month. 

The Fitzwilliam Museum
14 Jun 2025
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A panel discussion exploring Black ways of knowing, being and belonging, featuring Dr S.M. Rodriguez, Dr Jade Bentil and Jacob V Joyce.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
02 Jun 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
09 Jun 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
16 Jun 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
23 Jun 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
30 Jun 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.
 

Cambridge University Botanic Garden
16 Jun 2025
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Join a free bespoke tour of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden for blind and partially sighted adults.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
17 Jul 2025
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Join a touch tour and object handling session for blind and partially sighted adults at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Kettle's Yard
30 Jul 2025
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Join us for art, music, talks, making and more!

Kettle's Yard
10 Sep 2025
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Join us for a lecture with Dorothy Price on the artist Lubaina Himid.

Kettle's Yard
01 Oct 2025
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Join us for a panel discussion with Dr Inga Fraser, Senior Curator of the House and Collection, Juliette Bretan, writer and researcher, Patricia Gillies, Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, and Ania Ready, Polish-British photographic artist.

Kettle's Yard
10 Oct 2025
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This hands-on session takes the archive as a starting point for how artists, curators and writers can learn from, and speculate beyond history.

Kettle's Yard
22 Oct 2025
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Join us for a special event in the Kettle’s Yard house where artists Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska will be in conversation with exhibition curator Dr Amy Tobin.

Museum of Classical Archaeology
25 Jul 2025
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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 the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
28 Jun 2025
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Join us for a free performance by the Malva Voice for Ukraine community choir. Immerse yourself in Ukrainian folk songs and celebrate Ivan Kupala Night.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
01 Apr 2025

Discover the depth, detail and drama in the works of one of Europe’s most ambitious, experimental and acclaimed pioneers of print, Albrecht Dürer. Propelling the art of printmaking to new heights during the Northern Renaissance of the late 1400s, the German artist not only elevated the status of prints throughout Europe but secured his reputation as one of the very best.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
15 Apr 2025

From Italy in the 1300s to today, discover what unites artists born hundreds of years apart and explore how art of the past inspires bold new visions of what art can be.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
07 Jul 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.
 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
14 Jul 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
21 Jul 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

 

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
28 Jul 2025
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Drop in and be inspired by the displays and objects that our staff love.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
01 Apr 2025

Explore our latest What’s New display, packed with a selection of supersized works which have joined our collection of prints and drawings over the last five years.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
19 Jul 2025
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Discover our new display Physics & Glass with Curator Dr Hannah Price. 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
02 Jul 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
16 Jul 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
19 Jul 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
23 Jul 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
30 Jul 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
06 Aug 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

The Polar Museum
09 Jul 2025
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Join us at the Polar Museum for a free talk with former FoSPRI Artist in Residence Lesley Burr

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
13 Aug 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
16 Aug 2025
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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum! 

The Polar Museum
09 Jul 2025
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Join us at the Polar Museum for an artist workshop with Painting the Poles artist Lesley Burr. 

The Polar Museum
30 Jul 2025
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Join us at the Polar Museum for a free talk with former FoSPRI Artist in Residence Claudia Myatt. 

 


 

The Polar Museum
30 Jul 2025
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Join us at the Polar Museum for an artist workshop with Painting the Poles artist Claudia Myatt.