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Cambridge Archaeology in the News

Cambridge Archaeology in the News

Carolyn Ferguson outlines some of Cambridge’s most significant archaeology stories that have been in the news over the last few years, as well as telling us about more recent exciting finds at Croft Gardens.

18 February 202118 February 2021 Blogs, Museum, News Read more

Capturing Cambridge: Gipsy Smith

Capturing Cambridge: Gipsy Smith

Find out about the fascinating life of Rodney ‘Gipsy’ Smith, international Evangelist and MBE, who lived on Hinton Avenue in Cambridge.

18 February 202118 February 2021 Blogs, Capturing Cambridge, Museum, News Read more

Object Spotlight: The Jacket and Helmet of S.H. Rowley

Object Spotlight: The Jacket and Helmet of S.H. Rowley

Carolyn Ferguson discusses her journey taking a mysterious military jacket and matching helmet from museum enigma to one of the stars of the military collection at the Museum of Cambridge!

8 February 202118 February 2021 Blogs, Museum, News Read more

Cambridge Museum reaches fundraising landmark, helping to stave off closure

Cambridge Museum reaches fundraising landmark, helping to stave off closure

The Museum of Cambridge has successfully reached the halfway point in its fundraising appeal.

5 February 20215 February 2021 Blogs, Museum, News Read more

The First Decolonising Project Team Meeting: We are Off!

The First Decolonising Project Team Meeting: We are Off!

Florencia Nannetti tells us about the first meeting of the Museum’s important and exciting Decolonisation project.

1 February 20212 February 2021 Blogs, Museum, News No Comments Read more

Volunteer Blogs: On Volunteering from Home

Volunteer Blogs: On Volunteering from Home

Mary White talks about what volunteering looks like in 2021, and the value of volunteering during the pandemic.

1 February 20211 February 2021 Blogs, Museum, News No Comments Read more

Capturing Cambridge: Emmanuel Road

Capturing Cambridge: Emmanuel Road

Roger Lilley discusses what we know about the people who lived on Emmanuel Road in 1851, and the sad truths about those incarcerated in the jail there.

1 February 20212 February 2021 Blogs, Capturing Cambridge, News No Comments Read more

A Message from our Chair: The Museum of Cambridge in 2021

A Message from our Chair: The Museum of Cambridge in 2021

The Chair of our Board, Lucy Walker, shares her hopes for 2021 and her vision for the Museum of Cambridge this year.

1 February 20211 February 2021 Blogs, Museum, News 1 Comment Read more

Weaving Our Stories

Weaving Our Stories

‘Weaving Our Stories’ is a one day live art event at which artists Cathy Dunbar, Jill Eastland and Jane Hellings will be making a 3-dimensional weaving telling the stories of Cambridge women before and during the pandemic. It takes place

15 October 202015 October 2020 Exhibition, News Read more

A Royal Occasion: Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday!

A Royal Occasion: Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday!

In 2018, the Fitzwilliam Museum saved a marble bust of Queen Victoria. The Museum of Cambridge is proud to have a more flattering wooden example of the young queen which was given to the Museum in 1936, its first year

24 May 2019 Blogs, Museum Read more
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