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Sat 6 August 2022 8:00AM - 9:00AM

Our Place in Space – Morning Yoga on Midsummer Common

Relax, unwind and be mindful by Mercury! Take part in a relaxing open-air yoga session on Midsummer Common this Summer.

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Our Place in Space – Morning Yoga on Midsummer Common

Relax, unwind and be mindful by Mercury! Take part in a relaxing open-air yoga session on Midsummer Common this Summer.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer with the Museums

This summer, find fun and adventure close to home with free/ low-cost family events and activities

10:00AM - 11:00AM

Our Place in Space - Ice From Above at the Polar Museum

Join the team at The Polar Museum and help to map the coldest places on planet Earth with a giant floor map.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Polar Pop-ups - Summer Saturdays at the Polar Museum

Explore the museum this summer with your family and friends. Try out our pop-up activity station bursting with different activities, games and books to discover.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Art exhibition: 'Kill or Cure'

Lethal or life-giving? Wolfson's exciting contemporary art exhibition explores the potential of animals, plants, and substances from the natural world to ‘Kill’ and/or ‘Cure’.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

12:00PM - 1:30PM

Our Place in Space - Guided Tours of the Solar System

Join us for a guided tour of the Our Place in Space sculpture trail of the solar system on the spectacular Midsummer Common.

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Exhibition tour with printmaker Louise Stebbing

Printmaker Louise Stebbing will give a tour of her current retrospective of 40 years of printmaking.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum.

2:30PM - 4:30PM

Uncomfortable Cambridge Tours

Discover Cambridge in a different way on this guided walking tour, focusing on the uncomfortable stories of power and privilege which have shaped both the university and the city.

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Haunted Cambridge Ghost Tours

Cambridge guides' scariest storytellers take you to the darker byways of our city, where the spirits of the dead still hover ...