Activity: Cambridgeshire Characters Memory Café
From Snowy Farr on the Market Square to the Singing Binman on King’s Parade
Join us in the Enid Porter Room from 1:00pm on Friday 23 November and share your memories over tea and biscuits
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Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Public Meeting: Eighty-Second Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Museum of Cambridge
Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Cambridge are pleased to announce that our Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 27 November 2018Order of business will commence promptly at 7.15pm in the Enid Porter Room of the Museum of Cambridge
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December Walking Tour: Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge
The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomThe December Hidden Cambridge Tour is now full.
Booking arrangements for future tours will be announced in the near future.
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Activity: Memory Café – Showpeople, Fairs and Life on the Road
The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomCome tell your stories of the Travellers in Cambridgeshire.
A final Memory Café for the year, to complement Word of Mouth, which runs until Sunday
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January Walking Tour: Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge
The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomJoin us and explore Hidden Cambridge, taking in the streets, alleys, buildings and history of the people living in the area between St John's College and Quayside — the centre of trade that made the town a thriving inland port long before the first students arrived — before crossing the river to Castle Hill and the location of the Roman settlement of Duroliponte.
The January 2019 Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge walking tour is fully booked
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Exhibition: Barnwell at War
FeaturedThe Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomThe everyday lives of working-class people in the east of Cambridge during the Great War
Showcasing research by 100 Years of Coconuts, Wolfson College and the Everyday Lives in War First World War Engagement Centre at the University of Hertfordshire that explores the cultural memory of everyday Cambridge and examines the changes to the pattern of life during an era of previously unparalleled trauma
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Talk: Growing Up and Getting On in the 1960s
FeaturedThe Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomThree stories of education and everyday life
Join us as Dr Laura Carter explores the experience of growing up in the region using three local life stories that have been reconstructed from information derived from the 1946 British Birth Cohort — a longitudinal study that has followed more than 5,000 postwar babies from cradle to old-age.
Tickets are free, but you must book so that we can manage attendance.
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February Walking Tour: Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge
The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomJoin us and explore Hidden Cambridge, taking in the streets, alleys, buildings and history of the people living in the area between St John's College and Quayside — the centre of trade that made the town a thriving inland port long before the first students arrived — before crossing the river to Castle Hill and the location of the Roman settlement of Duroliponte.
The February 2019 Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge walking tour is fully booked
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Activity: Twilight at the Museums – Torches! Trinkets! Treasures!
The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomJoin us for a Twilight event at the Museum of Cambridge Explore some weird and wonderful objects from the Museum’s collection in an interactive session with arts and crafts, object handling and more. Follow the trail and discover hidden secrets
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FREE Family Craft Activity: Sweetheart Pincushions
Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomWhat would soldiers send to their loved ones in WWI? It wasn't just letters but handmade gifts as well. Injured WWI soldiers would spend time carefully decorating heart-shaped pin cushions to send home to family members at home as a
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