Sun 16 June 2024 | 10:00AM |
![]() Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
![]() Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
![]() Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
![]() Uncover the hidden stories of the Garden on this exciting adventure. |
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11:00AM - 12:30PM |
![]() A Walking Tour of "Hidden" Cambridge An entertaining and informative 90-minute walking tour of Cambridge with a Cambridge Green Badge Guide that will reveal things you won't find in the standard guide books. |
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11:30AM - 1:00PM |
![]() Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
![]() Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
![]() Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
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2:30PM - 3:00PM |
![]() Between Roman Agricultural Diffusion and Islamic Green Revolution: Crop diffusion in the 1st millennium CE Middle East and Mediterranean: a talk by Dr Daniel Fuks, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge |
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7:30PM - 9:30PM |
![]() Mélanie Clapiès and Patrick Hemmerlé in Concert Join us for an exciting violin and piano duo with the internationally renowned Mélanie Clapiès and Patrick Hemmerlé! |