My Mini Museum Makers - Workshop for Families
2023-07-24 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-07-25 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-08-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-08-07 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-08 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-08-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-08-21 12:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-22 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join us for a family-friendly workshop and get crafting your very own Mini Museum!
Mini Museums are back at the Museum of Cambridge for summer 2023!
Inspired by the creativity of nearly 3000 individuals in January and February 2023, we’re once again calling the residents of Cambridgeshire to celebrate the place they call home – in miniature!
Join a workshop during the summer holidays to create a brilliant mini-exhibition about what you love most about Cambridgeshire today: its people, places and stories. Be inspired by objects from the Museum’s collection while you tell your own story through your Mini Museum.
What: A hands-on workshop where you can make a miniature Museum about your favourite places in Cambridgeshire.
When:
24th Juy 10 am and 2 pm
25th July 10 am
7th August 10 am and 2 pm
8th August 10 am
21st August 10 am and 2 pm
22nd August 10 am
Where: The Museum of Cambridge.
Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-mini-museum-makers-workshop-for-families-tickets-668070024427?aff=oddtdtcreator
Can you help us build an exhibition all about what you love in Cambridgeshire?
This summer, you will be able to share your Mini Museum in a major exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge! Mini Museums will be on display as part of the exhibition from the 7th of August to the 31st of September 2023! All those who have created a Mini Museum will be able to share it with us to make it part of the exhibition. For more details on how to share your mini museum with us visit: My Mini Museum & Your Exhibit To Go In It! – The Museum of Cambridge
Suitable for children aged 6 and above and their families.
Booking is essential, and you can reserve your free places using the Eventbrite link below, or should you prefer, do feel free to email us directly: sarah.hutton@museumofcambridge.org.uk.
For more information about the My Mini Museum project, take a look at our website here.
Accessibility You can also read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email sarah.hutton@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish you or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable and welcome you at the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.
A big thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Cambridge City Council for making this project possible.
This project is completely free to all participants. However, if you would like to make a donation to support the work of the Museum, we would be very grateful. Your generosity will support us to run even more special events for the local community. Donations can be made online or by cheque. Thank you!

Little Feet, Big Impressions
2023-07-27 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-09-07 10:00 - 11:30 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Come along to these free, fun and interactive sessions for your 1-5 year olds.
Catch up with friends and make new ones with coffee, tea, and biscuits while your little ones play musical instruments, make arts and crafts and play with other children.
A chance to meet chat, make friends and entertain your small people.
Refreshments will be provided. Changing facilities available.
Smaller siblings also welcome to attend, please book both parents and carers and children’s tickets.
Pushchairs are welcome but will need to fit through a standard door frame.

Talk: Agatha Christie, her life and characters with the collector.
2023-07-27 18:30 - 21:00 | The Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join the Museum of Cambridge for an evening talk about our latest exhibition, “Agatha Christie: an exhibition of her life and characters.” Hear from the remarkable collector and curator of the exhibit, who has spent 15 years gathering memorabilia of one of the UK’s greatest mystery writers. Agatha Christie wrote more than 91 plays, short stories and novels with characters and stories known worldwide.
Stay late and see the exhibition celebrating her life and creativity at the Museum of Cambridge. You will be surrounded by objects from the early 20th century and step back to Agatha’s time. See an extraordinary private collection of outfits, memorabilia, and movie history which will inspire you to dive back into Agatha’s world of mystery and murder!

Arrival from 6:30 pm with a talk from the collector and curator, followed by a visit to the Museum.

Tickets are available to book on Eventbrite as donate as you feel, with all donations supporting the work of the Museum of Cambridge. Your donation also includes a drink and nibbles during the talk. (Talk: Agatha Christie, an exhibition of her life and characters Tickets, Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite)

Accessibility
You can read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email alex.smaridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish your or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you are feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable and welcome you to the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Black History Lectures III: Lucius Septimus Severus, Roman Emperor
2023-07-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join the Museum of Cambridge for a fascinating evening with Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi.
Carol, a researcher in the British Windrush generation and Caribbean Folklore, will share her research on topics of Black British History at the Museum of Cambridge. In a series of in-person lectures on the last Friday of the month, Carol will explore Black History from the Romans to the Tudors.
Lucius Septimus Severus was the Roman Emperor in Britain from 193 to 211 AD. He was of North African descent from Libya and from a prominent family that already had an established Roman military background. His intention for Britain was to conquer the whole island and subordinate it to Roman Rule. The lecture focuses on his campaigns, which involve the rebuilding of the forts along Hadrian’s wall. This campaign with the Caledonian tribes led to heavy losses on the roman side. The lecture will also explore the building of the Roman Fort at Carpow on Troy and his creation of the two provinces in England that are recognised as the North/South divide as in Northern England and Southern England.
Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi
Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi works at the Open University. Since 2000 Dr Brown-Leonardi has carried out long-term fieldwork and research projects on political discourse and non-renewable resources in the Mackenzie Valley, Canada and research on reindeer racing and training race reindeer in Northern Finland. Her current research investigates how Britain’s exit from the European Union has affected the perceptions and decision-making of mixed-nationality couples (British and Finnish) to stay and live permanently in Finland or the United Kingdom. Carol’s most recent work focuses on the Windrush deportee’s experience following the hostile environment policy to understand the levels of inclusion and exclusion experienced in both British and Caribbean society. Carol is interested in local history and contributed to the research for the Equiano Bridge Project.
Tickets
Tickets are available via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-history-lectures-iii-lucius-septimus-severus-roman-emperor-tickets-657579587247?aff=oddtdtcreator
Accessibility
You can also read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email alex.smaridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish for your photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you at the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Summer of Stories - Storytelling
2023-08-01 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-08-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
You are invited to the Summer of Stories at the Museum of Cambridge!
At the Museum of Cambridge, there will be storytelling and story-making for the whole family!
You can take part in historical stories from around Cambridge with Chip from EpicTales.
When your head is full of stories, you can create your own! With storybook, comics, and collage templates to create with stickers, sequins, and all sorts of fun crafting supplies.
A perfect summertime activity for all ages, book tickets now!
Please arrive 10 minutes before storytime to get settled in your seats as it will kick off at 1pm sharp!
The craft session will then end at 3pm.
After you have enjoyed the event if you want to visit the museum, there is lots to explore and two fun trails to keep your little one entertained as you go around. Don’t forget under 16’s are always free!
Please book a ticket for all adults and children attending.
Suitable for ages 3+
Accessibility
You can read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email alex.smaridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish you or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you to the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free and discounted events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Little Feet, Big Impressions
2023-08-03 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-08-10 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-08-17 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-08-24 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-08-31 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-09-21 10:00 - 11:30 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Come along to these free, fun and interactive sessions for your 1-5 year olds.
Catch up with friends and make new ones with coffee, tea, and biscuits while your Little ones play musical instruments, make some arts and crafts and play with other children.
A chance to meet chat, make friends and entertain your small people.
Refreshments will be provided. Changing facilities available.
Smaller siblings also welcome to attend, please book both parents and childrens tickets.
Pushchairs are welcome but need to fit through a standard door frame.

Hidden Cambridge Tour August
2023-08-06 10:30 - 12:00 | Cambridgeshire
Take another look at Cambridge with a 90-minute Hidden Cambridge Walking Tour.
Enjoy a tour of the lesser-known Castle area of Cambridge. Discover some of the hidden nooks and crannies you’ve never noticed before!
Hear stories of beer, brothels and boatmen, and where Nobel prizes jostle with rugby players and mustard factories.
A qualified guide will lead your tour, and the ticket price includes free entry to the Museum of Cambridge within a month of the tour. All proceeds of the tours are donated to support the Museum.
Tickets are £15. Tours start at 10:30 from the Round Church in Cambridge.
Booking is essential. Follow the Eventbrite link to book: 90 minute Hidden Cambridge walking tour Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

Mini Museums Your Story of Cambridgeshire
2023-08-07 - 2023-10-02 | The Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Over the last few months, thousands of people across Cambridgeshire have been creating their own Mini Museum celebrating what they love about Cambridge and Cambridgeshire.
From punting on the River Cam, frolicking across Wicken Fen, Sunday lunch at the Robin Hood pub, to playing footie in the local park – people from across the region have created a beautiful collection of miniature museums celebrating that which is most precious about living in Cambridgeshire.
For the first time, these Mini Museums are going on display right here at the Museum of Cambridge, on loan from the people who created them. Visit the exhibition in the newly reopened Attic on the top floor. Come along and the favourite places and memories of the people of Cambridgeshire paired with objects from the Museum’s collection.
We challenge you to think of your favourite place in Cambridge!
Mini Museums: Your Story of Cambridgeshire is a free exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge. Standard entry fees apply. Adults £6, Students or Job Seekers £4.50. Children 16 and under are free, as are Friends of the Museum, Museums Association and Art Fund Members. You can also use Time Credits to visit the Museum.
The exhibition is on from Monday 7th August 2023- Monday 2nd October 2023. The Museum is open seven days a week during the school holidays 10-5 Monday-Saturday and 11-4 on Sundays. We are closed on Tuesdays during term time.
Accessibility
You can also read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email alex.smaridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the Museum free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish you or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you at the Museum on another day.
Love events ? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Black History Lectures IV: The Presence of the Moors in Europe and the United Kingdom
2023-08-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join the Museum of Cambridge for a fascinating evening with Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi.
Carol, a researcher in the British Windrush generation and Caribbean Folklore, will share her research on topics of Black British History at the Museum of Cambridge. In a series of in-person lectures on the last Friday of the month, Carol will explore Black History from the Romans to the Tudors.
The Moors are Northern Africans and they had extensive knowledge of ancient Egypt and Nubia, which was fostered from constant cultural exchanges between the Africans of Northwest and North Africa. They are important because they gave us some of the fundamental structures from which we could construct key elements of our society. They introduced science, literature, and other forms of knowledge to Europe that lifted it out of the dark ages, when they conquered the Iberian Peninsula in A.D. 711. The Iberian Peninsula, then known as the Al-Andalus territory, thrived as the centre of arts and culture, it was esteemed for its scientific advancements and economic prosperity. The Moors existed and ruled Europe for over 700 years and resided in the Royal houses of Europe, where they collaborated on many levels with each other, which included marriage. There is very little discussion about the presence of black people in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales before the 1500’s. This lecture aims to gain some insights on some of the influences from the Moors as well as black individuals that lived or visited England before and during this period.
Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi
Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi works at the Open University. Since 2000 Dr Brown-Leonardi has carried out long-term fieldwork and research projects on political discourse and non-renewable resources in the Mackenzie Valley, Canada and research on reindeer racing and training race reindeer in Northern Finland. Her current research investigates how Britain’s exit from the European Union has affected the perceptions and decision-making of mixed-nationality couples (British and Finnish) to stay and live permanently in Finland or the United Kingdom. Carol’s most recent work focuses on the Windrush deportee’s experience following the hostile environment policy to understand the levels of inclusion and exclusion experienced in both British and Caribbean society. Carol is interested in local history and contributed to the research for the Equiano Bridge Project.
Tickets
Tickets are available via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-history-lectures-iv-the-presence-of-the-moors-in-europe-and-uk-tickets-657567771907?aff=oddtdtcreator
Accessibility
You can also read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email alex.smaridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish for your photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you at the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Summer of Stories - Storytelling
2023-08-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
You are invited to the Summer of Stories – Storytelling at the Museum of Cambridge!
Our storytelling workshop starts with getting settled into your seat to listen to a professional storyteller and author tell you exciting folk tales from around Cambridge, with props. (join us for 2 hours)
There will be an hour of interactive storytelling, before you start creating a story of your own.
What: A free interactive arts, crafts, and storytelling session, where you can hear amazing stories from around Cambridge, and then create your own story. You can create a story as a comic book strip or a collage.
When: We have 3 dates through August – Tuesday 1st, Tuesday 15th and Tuesday 29th
Where: The Session will take place in our beautiful Enid Porter room at the Museum of Cambridge. The entrance to the Enid Porter room is through the Museum courtyard with a green door in an old shopfront with a collection of typewriters and other wonderful artifacts.
Suitable for ages 3+
All of our stories are told in an age-appropriate manner for the audience that we have on the day.
For children age 3 – 6, you can create a story collage with coloured pens, stickers, pom-poms and sequins, then craft characters for your story!
For children age 6 – 13 you can write, draw or create a story using the different writing prompts provided. There will be writing prompts to help you get started, you can also create the characters from your story with our craft supplies.
How to book: Please book a ticket for all adults and children attending. If you would like any help booking your tickets, please email sophie.casford@museumofcambridge.org or call the Museum on 01223 355159
After you have enjoyed our storytelling workshop why not visit the Museum?
There is lots to explore and a fun trail to keep your little ones entertained as you go around. The Museum is open 10 am – 5 pm Monday- Saturday, and 11 am – 4 pm on Sunday.
We are open 7 days a week for the summer holidays (July 19th – September 4th). Children 16 and under are always free at the Museum of Cambridge, adult standard ticket are priced from £6 and admission fees apply.
Accessibility
You can read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email sophie.casford@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish you or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you to the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free and discounted events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Hidden Cambridge Tour September
2023-09-03 10:30 - 12:00 | Cambridgeshire

Private View: The Reopened Attic and An Exhibition of Mini Museums
2023-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 | The Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join us for drinks and an exclusive viewing of the Museum’s newly restored Attic and exhibition of Mini Museums, made by the people of Cambridgeshire.

Date: 19th September 2023
Time: 7pm-9pm.
Venue: Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ

Attendees at this private view will get the chance to explore the newly restored Attic and our exhibition of locally-made Mini Museums, all while the Museum is closed to the public.
Guests will be greeted with a glass of something special on arrival before being given a chance to explore the new exhibit and recently restored Attic on the Museum’s top floor.
You’ll be able to visit the Museum shop which is chock-full of items made by local artists and craftspeople. We also stock books by local authors highlighting our rich regional history. There is something for everyone! Plus, every purchase in the shop supports the ongoing development of this fabulous museum.
Book your spot via Eventbrite: https://privateview.eventbrite.co.uk
The Reopening of the Attic
The Museum’s Attic has been closed to the public since March 2020 and reopened for the first time in August 2023. The Attic has received extensive restoration by our landlords, Cambridge City Council, to repair damage caused by rot and woodworm. This repair involved completely reconstructing the attic dormer and installing new oak timbers and plaster walls using specialised heritage techniques.
Mini Museums Exhibition
In January 2023, we launched the Mini Museums programme in Cambridgeshire, inviting residents to design their very own Mini Museum. Our goal was to discover what was important to the people of the region and what cherished memories or objects they would want to represent in their very own miniature museum.
The response we received was astounding. Almost 3000 people participated in the programme in just two months, creating Mini Museums at home, attending workshops, and engaging with us at our pop-up stalls. Demand was so high that we ran further workshops throughout the summer of 2023, engaging even more communities in the programme.
The Mini Museums created by the residents of Cambridgeshire are truly remarkable, showcasing the creativity and passion of our community –and this new exhibition celebrates just that. The Mini Museums on display depict everyday activities that hold deep meaning to local residents, such as punting on the River Cam, swimming in the Lido, exploring the Fens, visiting museums, enjoying Sunday lunches in the pub, and playing footie in the park.
You can find out more about the project here.
Do book your ticket via Eventbrite. Admission is £5.50 and all proceeds go towards supporting the word of the Museum in caring for and sharing the local histories of Cambridge and the surrounds.
If you need help booking, please email us at enquiries@museumofcambridge.org.uk or call us at 01223 355159. We look forward to seeing you there!
Accessibility
You can also read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email enquiries@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish you or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you at the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Talk: Objects of the Mind: Using film to engage audiences with the Science Museum’s mental health collections.
2023-09-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join the Museum of Cambridge for a talk by Tim Snelson, media historian and Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia.
After the Second World War, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences.
In an ongoing Research Council-funded project, Tim Snelson and colleagues at the University of Manchester have researched these interactions. A key, but unexpected, finding of this research has been the vital role played by objects – psychiatric instruments, laboratory equipment, diagnostic tools, psychological tests, perceptual apparatus – as the embodied materiality of the psychological ideas that the films circulated and contested.
In this latest project, Objects of the Mind, they have marshalled objects from across the Science Museum’s media and medical collections to explore the convergences between the psychiatric and cinematic and to communicate these findings to new audiences.
In this talk, Tim will preview three short films that he has made with the Science Museum, which will be screened on gallery at a Lates event for NHS’s 75th Anniversary in July in the Wellcome Galleries. These films contextualise objects within the Museum’s medical collections – the straitjacket, the electroencephalograph (EEG), the sand trays used in Margret Lowenfeld’s Word Technique. Tim will use these films to illustrate his research on the interactions of material cultures of media and mental health, but also consider the value of using films and other popular culture to recontextualise and recombine museum objects and, conversely, the potential of bringing an objects-perspective to film and media studies.

Tim Snelson
Tim Snelson is a media historian and is currently Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia. His research looking at the relationship between media and social history has been published in a number of books and journals, including exploring how changes in women’s roles and experiences in wartime shaped production of Hollywood genre films in a book titled Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front (Rutgers University Press, 2015). He recently led two Research Council-funded projects on the interactions of psychiatry and cinema, researched and delivered in collaboration with the British Science Association and Science Museum Group. Research from these projects, looking at the interplay of psychiatric and cinematic ideas, expertise and material cultures, will be published in a book titled Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s by Edinburgh University Press in 2024.

Accessibility
You can also read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email annie.davis@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish you or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you’re feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable, and welcome you at the Museum on another day.
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Little Feet, Big Impressions
2023-09-28 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-10-05 10:00 - 11:30 | Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge, 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AQ, United Kingdom
Join our regular group of families for a free, fun, and interactive free roam stay and play session for your 1-5 year olds.
You can chat with other parents and carers, and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, and biscuits. Your little ones can play with toys, musical instruments and create artwork with other children their age.
This is a free-roam play session, you and your little ones can move freely through the room to explore the crafts, toys, and musical instruments in whichever order you would like.
We have a wonderful collection of heritage toys for your little ones to explore and play with, giving you a unique opportunity to reminisce over toys you may have played with as a child!
There will be a new craft activity every week! Let your little ones’ creativity flow freely with our stickers, pom-poms, tissue paper, sequins, and other craft supplies.
After the stay and play, you can visit the Museum for free, with fun trails for your little ones!
There are changing facilities available in the Museum.
Pushchairs are welcome but will need to fit through a standard door frame and space is limited.
What: A free engaging playgroup with lots of toys and musical instruments for the children to explore, new craft activities every week. Free tea, coffee, and biscuits are provided!
When: 10 am – 11.30 am, every Thursday morning.
Where: The Session will take place in our beautiful Enid Porter room at the Museum of Cambridge. The entrance to the Enid Porter room is through the Museum courtyard with a green door in an old shopfront with a collection of typewriters and other wonderful artifacts.
Suitable for ages 1 – 5.
How to book: Please book a ticket for all adults and children attending. If you would like any help booking your tickets, please email sophie.casford@museumofcambridge.org or call the Museum on 01223 355159. We do accept walk-ins on the day but we cannot guarantee a place as space is limited.
Accessibility
You can read about our accessibility information on our website. If you’d like to chat through any accessibility requirements, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01223 355159 or email sophie.casford@museumofcambridge.org.uk. Event attendees with additional needs are welcome to bring a supporter or carer who will be admitted to the event free of charge.
Getting Here
We are in the centre of Cambridge. You’ll find us at the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street. We are right beside Kettle’s Yard and only a 15-minute walk from King’s College.
You can park your bike at the bike parks on Bridge Street or on Northampton Street. There is a bus stop on Bridge Street. Check out the Stagecoach website to plan your journey to and from the Museum. Find out more about how to get here by train, bike, bus, car or on foot on our website.
Photography
Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this event, and images may be used in future marketing and reporting materials. If you do not wish your or your family’s photograph to be taken, please make sure to let us know.
Healthy Events
If you are feeling unwell or have recently tested positive for Covid-19, please do not attend this event. We’ll be happy to offer you a refund if applicable and welcome you to the Museum on another day.
Love events? Love them even more when they’re free? Join the Friends of the Museum of Cambridge today and you’ll get access to free events, discounts in our shop and year-round free entry for you and a guest.

Hidden Cambridge Tour October
2023-10-01 10:30 - 12:00 | Cambridgeshire
