Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time.

Food defines us as individuals, communities, and nations: we are what we eat and, equally, what we don’t eat. When, where, why, how and with whom we eat are crucial to our identity. Feast & Fast presents novel approaches to understanding the history and culture of food and eating.

Experience the vision of twelve teenagers selected from around the UK to work directly with polar researchers.

This exhibition of art made by primary school children celebrates the creativity of local schools and teachers and champions the on‐going importance of cultural learning for young people at a time when the arts in schools are increasingly under threat.

A temporary display of new installations created and co-curated by Luis Jimenez, Lizzie Knott, Suzy Rickard, Jack Silvester and Lily Stancliffe.

Our free snowdrop trail, available at the Garden’s ticket offices, will guide you to the Garden’s snowdrop ‘hot spot walking routes’ where you’ll see our snowdrops growing and discover more about snowdrop science, history, folklore and cultivation from information panels in these areas.

Learn more about the Feast & Fast exhibition with one of our front of house staff as your expert guide.

In this exhibition of contemporary works, artist Debbie Loftus explores the resonance of shattered fragments and fractured lines within the harmonious flowing arabesques of the Parthenon frieze.

Free LGBTQ+ tours across 7 Museums

A new solo exhibition of work by Linder.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us for a creative and playful debate on the themes of Linderism led by Circuit, Kettle’s Yard’s young people’s group. FREE, all welcome, come along

The annual late night opening exclusively for all students - co-curated by the Fitzwilliam Museum Society.

Join us for a chamber music concert in the Kettle's Yard House.

Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind.

Drop in to see one of the specimens not normally on public display

Drop in to see one of the specimens not normally on public display

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 Cambridge collections.

Kettle’s Yard student music programmer Naomi Warburton has curated this years Student Music series, performed by University of Cambridge students. Inspired by pieces in the Kettle’s Yard collection, recorder player Sophie connects newly composed and improvised segments of music with works from across centuries and continents to create a unified story of struggle, flight and liberation.

What better way to spend your extra leap day than drawing in the Kettle’s Yard House? Join us for a chance to explore the collection, taking inspiration for sketches, followed by artist led activities to extend the possibilities of your drawing.

Join us for the second instalment of our curator led talks about an object in the Kettle’s Yard House.

Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle's Yard House.

Join us for the second in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition. The talk will led by the curators of ‘Feast and Fast’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum: Vicky Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Melissa Calaresu, Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge.

Suitable for children aged 2-5.

Kettle’s Yard student music programmer Naomi Warburton has curated this years Student Music series, performed by University of Cambridge students. Cambridge University’s premier A Capella group, Cadenza, perform their own arrangements and mash-ups of pop and jazz hits.  

Cambridge University’s premier A Capella group, Cadenza, perform their own arrangements and mash-ups of pop and jazz hits.

Join our friendly team for fun activities and art-making for all the family based on the theme of Sensory spring.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us as we celebrate the amazing women working to understand and better protect the world around us. 

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us at 1.30pm for a talk, and drop in after 2pm for an informal show-and-tell with Kettle’s Yard Archivist Frieda Midgley, Curatorial Assistant Eliza Spindel, and Jim and Helen Ede’s granddaughter Jane Adams.

An exclusive private guided tour of the Feast & Fast exhibition by one or both curators for individuals and groups, before the Museum opens at 10.00.

A feminist look at the Sedgwick Museum and our influential hidden figures.

Join our panel of conservationists to reflect on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Create your ideal world with this artist led workshop

John Luther Adams is an American counter-cultural hero. In the 1970s he dropped out of mainstream Californian life and vanished into the Alaskan wilderness, but in 2014 his originality was finally acknowledged when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Cassandra Miller’s Warblework contains dreamy transcriptions of Canadian birdsong and Kaare Husby’s 2nd String Quartet is a beautiful cacophony of avian melodies. But is that really Bartok in a concert of ‘new music’? All will be revealed…

Join us for a new performance with music and dance in collaboration with the New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards College. £10 (£5 concessions), booking required.

Celebrate the Cambridge Science Festival with Super Science Saturday as we take over the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences for the day.

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 Cambridge collections.

Explore animal senses at the Museum of Zoology

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 Cambridge collections.

Are museums facing a plastics conservation time bomb? Leading experts share real-life approaches to the conservation of plastics heritage.

This exhibition looks at the spread and development of prints representing abstract qualities such as the Five Senses, Seven Virtues and Deadly Sins.

Join us for a curator’s talk about an object in the Kettle’s Yard House. This will be the third in a series of informal lunchtime talks.

Six months have now passed since the Sedgwick Museum’s new Collection Research Centre opened in West Cambridge.

See our exhibitions after-hours and join us for culinary and theatrical experiment with a performance of Food and Feuds: Two cooks of Hexham, written by Fiona Ellis.

Zoology fun with scientists and staff from the Museum of Zoology

Join us for the third in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition. The talk will led by Alyce Mahon, Reader in Modern and Contemporary History of Art, University of Cambridge.

Join us for a workshop inspired by the Commonplace Books that artist Linder creates for each major artwork, artist Iona McCuaig will teach simple book binding techniques, to produce a book that you will begin to fill with material inspired by the House, collection and exhibition.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.

Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.

Join us for the fourth in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition. The talk will led by Steven Connor, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge.

Join the Cambridge Serene Reflection Group for a meditation in the Kettle’s Yard House.

Join us for a pot-pourri making workshop with Anna Taylor from Anna’s Flower Farm. Inspired by Jim Ede’s own special recipe for pot-pourri in the Kettle’s Yard House, and inspired by Linder’s recreation of it, this practical workshop will teach you how to create the perfect pot-pourri.

Join us in our Clore Learning Studio and come and make some art. An open invitation to all creatively minded people, aged 16+. Spend the afternoon working on new projects with us, get inspired by the Kettle’s Yard collection or exhibition, or just share ideas with others.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us for a curator’s talk about an object in the Kettle’s Yard House. This will be the fourth in a series of informal lunchtime talks.

This concert is a complete performance of Juliet Fraser’s latest solo album (on Huddersfield Contemporary Records) – four pieces all composed for her spectacular voice with only the accompaniment of electronics.

Join artist Lucy Steggals and our community collaborators for the next iteration of #Ooh0. The Kettlers and Lucy will be exploring perfume and performance in this drop-in event.

Join our friendly team for fun activities and art-making for all the family based on the theme of Food and drink.

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 Cambridge collections.

Artist led workshops for families. Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.

Sit, relax and enjoy soundscapes and artworks inspired by the sky. Open House artists in residence Wright & Vandame have been exploring space and wellbeing over the past year with local community groups in North Cambridge.

Join us for the final instalment in a series of curator’s talks about an object in the Kettle’s Yard House.

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 Cambridge collections.

Join us for the fifth in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition. The talk will led by Frank Bowles, Superintendent at Cambridge University Library.

Meet Open House artists in residence Wright & Vandame. Following an inspiring year in North Cambridge, find out about their research and their ideas on socially engaged art, as they reflect at the close of their residency.

Join Open House artists in residence Wright & Vandame for a meditation in the Kettle’s Yard House.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

Artist led workshops for families. Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.

Join us for a screening of the English premiere of Linder’s film The Bower of Bliss produced in 2018 for Glasgow Women’s Library. The screening is followed by a range of creative activities inspired by Linderism and led by Circuit, Kettle’s Yard’s young people’s group.

Join us for a curator’s tour of our latest exhibition, Linderism. FREE, come along

Join us for the sixth in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition. The talk will led by Amy Tobin, curator of Linderism.

Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

Gently shimmering and unfolding like a sustained whisper, the music of Morton Feldman is like nothing else. Tonight, Philip Thomas will play Feldman’s final masterpiece, Palais de Mari.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

Brian Ferneyhough’s music pushes performers to the very edge of technical and expressive limits. When it’s played by Kathryn Williams, his music transforms into jaw-dropping physical theatre. For this one-off collaboration, Kathryn’s fearless style will perfectly complement Bastard Assignments – four composer/performers whose appearances over the last few years have left audiences shocked, amused and ultimately amazed.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

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 Cambridge collections.

An exhibition of copies of paintings in The Fitzwilliam Museum made by students at the Hamilton Kerr Institute as part of their training to become painting conservators.