As the Museum opens up again, Roger Lilley tells us about the ‘opening’ of some of Cambridge’s most iconic historical businesses.
Capturing Cambridge: Great Beginnings
Share Your Stories: The Museum of Cambridge launches an exciting community project
The Museum of Cambridge has launched an exciting community project that calls for local residents to share their stories of the city and beyond. We are thrilled to introduce Museum Making, a project where everyone who calls Cambridge their home
Capturing Cambridge: Queens Trinity Lanes
Roger Lilley tracks some of Cambridge’s lost streets and buildings (as seen in the novels of Susanna Gregory), and gives us clues about where we can look for their remenants today.
Museum of Cambridge partners with King’s College London to collect weather memories
Researchers at King’s College London are looking at the relationship between weather, memory and a sense of place and identity in the east of England.
Museum Making: Building a Museum for the Community
Florencia Nannetti shares her excitement about our new ‘Museum Making’ project and its importance in helping us build even stronger connections with Cambridge’s communities both past and present.
Capturing Cambridge: The Love and Life of Josiah Chater
Roger Lilley tells us about the life of Draper Josiah Chater of 21 Hartington Grove.
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.
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.
Mary Charlotte Greene and Gwen Raverat: Master and Pupil?
Friend of the Museum of Cambridge Carolyn Ferguson explores the relationship between two notable Cambridge artists.
Forty Years of Arbury Carnival
Can you help us create an archive and exhibition of memories of Arbury Carnival?