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. Making new crafts, making space for yourself, and making new connections. A chance for you to explore working with different materials and learn new skills with others.
Monday 26 September: Art of the North
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. Making new crafts, making space for yourself, and making new connections. A chance for you to explore working with different materials and learn new skills with others.
For ages 16+
Tuesday 30 August: Where in the World
Fitz Stitch is a community arts project created over the lockdowns of 2020. 65 people took part to create unique textile squares inspired by the museum. These were sewn together resulting in two beautiful textile hangings.
Join us to celebrate these completed textile hangings and work on your own stitch - art piece with textile designer Lucyna Mazur.
Put some creativity into your evening with an after-hours event at the Museum, focusing on two inspiring exhibitions: Hockney's Eye and True to Nature.
Experience pop-up talks, practical creative workshops (booking required - further information to follow), performances, shopping and, of course, the opportunity to relax and enjoy refreshments in our cafe.
MUSE, our series of practical art workshops for adults has returned to the Museum in person! These workshops will take place in the gallery spaces, and in our Education studio making use of materials and techniques that can be safely used in these areas. Art supplies will be provided. Each workshop is 2 hours long.
Nature often provides an escape away from our everyday urban lives and a source of artistic inspiration. But is this a modern concept and does 'landscape' really exist as an artistic genre?
Zensation is a friendly session for all University students, we look at the Museum collection to find improved wellbeing and enjoyment in this informal often practical session. No previous art skills necessary.
Find a place of quiet as you gaze across the landscapes in our exhibition 'True to Nature' compare this experience to David Hockney's reimagined landscapes where the dial is up to 10 for colour saturation. In our studio paint in acrylic on board, a landscape of your own.
This is a practical workshop please wear suitable clothes.
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. Making new crafts, making space for yourself, and making new connections. A chance for you to explore working with different materials and learn new skills with others.
For ages 16+
Monday 23 May: Auroras
Cambridge has a wealth of sources for those interested in the History of Science. Find out about the science archives and special collections across Cambridge, and how to access them. Discover more about the records that scientists leave behind, what they tell us about their work and life, and how they can be used for historical research.
Drop in to the event anytime over the day.
Access to the event is under the Sedgwick Museum main entrance
Live stream talk.
The exhibition, developed from field studies carried out on the recently formed Icelandic island of Surtsey and the geologically ancient island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides focusses, amongst other things, on the impact of both human and natural forces on the two contrasting islands.
Fatty fruits and feathered friends: how novel fruit colours communicate with animals
Dr Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
