• Workshop: Make Your Own Love Token

    The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Join us on Saturday and make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart

  • Workshop: Make Your Own Valentine’s Love Token

    The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Join us on St. Valentine's Day to make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart

  • Talk: Bags of Yarn

    Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Cambridge textile artist Jenny Langley explores how working with recycled materials feeds her creativity and inspires her to try new and different ideas

    Free
  • Activity: Raptor Day at the Museum

    Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Ever seen a peregrine falcon or a tawny owl up close? Well now is your chance, because we have invited some of these magnificent birds, along with their keepers, to visit the Museum for the afternoon. Raptors are predatory birds

    Free
  • Talk: Safeguards Against Witchcraft – Local Protective Practices

    Dining Parlour, The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    The violence arising from the witch mania that consumed the country is well known, but the steps taken by individuals to protect their homes, their kin and themselves are often overlooked. There was so much that could be done to stop a witch from causing harm and all that was needed was a single, worn shoe…

    Free
  • Exhibition: All in a Cave of Snow – the Strange Tale of Elizabeth Woodcock

    Fens and Fenland Room, Museum of Cambridge 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    If your curiosity is piqued by the extraordinary, then we have quite a tale to tell you.

    Come visit and discover more about the remarkable Elizabeth Woodcock, a resident of the village of Impington who survived for nearly eight days in a cave of snow after a fall from her horse on a tempestuous evening in February 1799

  • Exhibition: Mary Charlotte Greene – Streets, Inns, Yards and Courts of Cambridge, 1894 – 1950

    Dining Parlour, The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    EXTENDED DUE TO DEMAND

    "Cambridge had called me to it and I love the place"
    The works of Mary Charlotte Greene capture the streetscapes, buildings, inns, yards, and courts of Cambridge, many of which were demolished in the first half of the 20th century. Join us from 30 March to view her drawings, watercolours, prints and oil paintings and explore a unique record of the history and development of our city.

  • Activity: Heroines, Highwaymen and Hereward the Wake: Tales from the Fens

    Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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

    Free