A small museum, with a big story to share
Family Mapping Workshop with Artist Kaitlin Ferguson Join artist Kaitlin Ferguson for a fun and creative mapping workshop at the Museum of Cambridge! Explore the museum’s map collection, then work together to create your own unique maps inspired by the
Crafting the Past - A Summer of Making Uncover the lost trades of the past this Summer Holiday at the Museum of Cambridge. 🧶 Stinging String Superstar 📍 Turn nettles into string, from plant to fibre! Learn an ancient
Join us for our programme of FREE storytelling and activities every two weeks for families with children aged 1-5.
Be welcomed into the Museum’s purpose-built event space, the Enid Porter Room, with complementary tea and coffee, before entering our 16th-century building to explore the objects on display with some storytelling.
Then return to the Enid Porter Room for a sensory activity related to the story you heard.
Humans relating to rivers, estuaries and water, in Cambridge, the Fens, & beyond. A session looking at objects from the museum that relate to water & our human history with this vital element. Led by ‘Rivers of Film’ curator/filmmaker James
Join us for our programme of FREE storytelling and activities every two weeks for families with children aged 1-5.
Be welcomed into the Museum’s purpose-built event space, the Enid Porter Room, with complementary tea and coffee, before entering our 16th-century building to explore the objects on display with some storytelling.
Then return to the Enid Porter Room for a sensory activity related to the story you heard.
This event is part of a series of Black History Month events at the Museum of Cambridge; find other events here. In 1967, in a Cambridge pub, a cricket club was born and emerged as a formidable presence in the city’s cricket
This event is part of a series of Black History Month events at the Museum of Cambridge; find other events here. The Honourable Lieutenant Colonel George Nelson was born in Jamaica in 1952 and moved to the UK in 1962
Join author Rachel Morris for a highly atmospheric exploration of the charismatic magicians of the Tudor and Renaissance courts and the wives and families who kept the whole magical show on the road. All things were believable back then –
This event is part of a series of Black History Month events at the Museum of Cambridge; find other events here. Join us for a talk by local historian Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi exploring black history in Cambridge and East Anglia, tracing
October Half Term at the Museum of Cambridge There's both tricks and treats at the Museum of Cambridge this Half Term, with corn dolly crafting and a witch bottle trail. Have a go at making your own straw creation