A small museum, with a big story to share
Did you know that Cambridgeshire had its own Robin Hood?
Join us for a storytelling workshop led by puppet maker and animator Heather Colbert and help us recount the adventures of local hero Hereward the Wake.
Heroines, Highwaymen and Hereward the Wake: Tales from the Fens is suitable for children aged 7-15.
Tickets are free, but you will need to book so that we can manage attendance at the venue
Whether you are interested in women's history, have a story of campaigning to share, are interested in the design and production of suffrage banners, are involved in current campaigns or would just like to in find out more over a cuppa with us...
Drop in to the Enid Porter Room at any time between 11:00am and 2:00pm on Saturday 21 April.
Everyone is interested in puppet-making.
Join stop-motion animator and puppet-maker Heather Colbert for our latest workshop, which will explore polymer clay sculpting techniques to create a Bunraku-style puppet, as part of our ongoing Tracing Traditions project at the Museum.
Whether you are interested in women's history or the design and production of suffrage banners, are involved in current campaigns, have a campaigning story to share or would just like to in find out more over a mug of tea or coffee with us...
Drop in to the Enid Porter Room at any time between 11:00am and 2:00pm on Saturday 12 May to find out more...
Cambridgeshire has a rich history of folklore and storytelling and there are many fascinating tales about the area. Help us tell some lesser known tales from the Fens in our very own Museum puppet theatre.
More Tales from the Fens is suitable for children aged 7-15
What restless spirits roam the corridors and rooms of your Museum once darkness falls…?
Over hundreds of years we must have gathered a ghost or two along the way. Join us and our friends from Ghost Hunt UK for a night of paranormal investigation and experience the Museum of Cambridge in a new and very different way.
We're venturing beyond the Grade II listed walls of our Museum for a day and coming to see you as part of the Cambridge Big Weekend. Join us on Parker's Piece for an afternoon of activities, chat and fun on Saturday 14 July.
There'll be fun aplenty and something for every everyone as our very own Fanny Cradock explores the history of jelly and the copper and china jelly moulds on display in our collection. She'll be making wobbly treats in retro aluminium bunny rabbit jelly moulds, which will be familiar to children of the 1960s and 1970s, and testing modern day jelly moulds, courtesy of Tala.
You can even get involved yourself! Make your own fabulously-coloured, quick-setting agar jelly balls, see who can make the tallest tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti and create your very own vision of Cambridge in the the year 2196!
Bring the family and try your hand at a variety of papercrafting techniques, including paper mosaics and origami and well as printing with a small printing press
Bring the family and work together to to design, build and test a stethoscope, a parachute and even a towering chimney in our fun-filled family engineering mornings