My name is Alex and I’m the Engagement and Collections Manager at the Museum of Cambridge. Over the last eight months I have been managing the building works onsite at the Museum. If you’ve driven or cycled past, you will
Mystery abounds..
How did we get here?
‘Capturing Cambridge is putting local history on the map…’ Capturing Cambridge has passed the 12,000 records milestone. Gradually the project has been growing, focused on its mission to capture and record the many histories of those who lived in Cambridgeshire.
Events Volunteer Interview
As we look forward to our packed Summer schedule of events starting with Arbury Carnival and Abbey People Big lunch in just a couple of weeks, here is a speak peak of the best bits of coming to these glorious
Coronations in Cambridge
‘Thus terminated one the most brilliant scenes that has ever taken place in this or indeed any part of England’ In our long history, where did the most spectacular event take place? For the Bedford & Peterborough Gazette, it was
A Museum for Cambridge
Sophie Casford our Engagement Officer has been with the Museum for nearly a year. Before she gets super busy with a jam-packed Summer of glorious events she shares the joys and achievements of her role to date! This year has
The Museum of Cambridge announces the appointment of a new Director
This new role is set to deliver an ambitious strategy to preserve the history of Cambridgeshire.
So what did you tell us you loved about Cambridgeshire?
By Sarah Hutton and Neil Clarke As the last few photographs are coming in, we are finally reaching the end of one of the biggest and far-reaching community projects we have been lucky enough to work on with the folk
Josiah Chater
In 1843, at fourteen years of age, Josiah Chater moved from Saffron Walden to Cambridge to take up a draper apprenticeship. He lived on St Mary’s Street opposite Holy Trinity Church (near present-day FatFace) and began a life in Cambridge.
Childhood and Community: Then and Now
The “Childhood and Community: Then and Now” Exhibit has been in development since last September. The exhibit is the combination of an ongoing community playgroup and community outreach blended with objects from the past and the history of Cambridge’s families
Meeting Josiah Chater
What does it mean to travel through time? Can one really do that, step into another time and someone elses shoes..? It’s a cold winters morning, one of my first trial shifts as a volunteer at the Museum of Cambridge,