A small museum, with a big story to share
Films and talks focusing on humans’ relationships with rivers, estuaries, and water, in Cambridge, the Fens, & beyond, along with the presentation of artistic responses from the afternoon’s creative workshop. Filmmaker Matthew John Harrison introduces his documentary ‘Oysterland’ – which spends time
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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.
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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
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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 –
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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