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Tue 28 October 2025 9:00AM - 6:30PM

Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World

Illuminated by medieval manuscripts, Cambridge University Library's exhibition explores a complex and intriguing world of medieval medicine.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Family Matters: Holding you up

18 artists’ photographs, paintings, performances, films, sculptures, toys and drawings offer us imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Autumn Art Adventure

Our Autumn Art Adventure is back!

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Hidden Histories

Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

The Magpies' Magic Forest

There is old magic in the trees, and the magpies know where to find it

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Made in Ancient Egypt

From elaborately decorated coffins to the Books of the Dead, ancient Egyptians produced objects which remain iconic today. But who were the makers behind them and how were they made?

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Everyday Wonder to Revelation: an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine

Clare Hall is honoured to host an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine (1936–2022), running from 10th October to 20th November 2025. Visitors are welcome daily between 10am and 5pm.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter

This new exhibition by one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated contemporary artists will present new paintings, a special installation made in collaboration with Magda Stawarska and ‘interventions’ in the Kettle’s Yard house.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Hidden Cambridge: The Unusual, The Quirky and The Downright Bizarre!

Hidden Cambridge’s latest and surely most entertaining city centre walking tour led by a Cambridge Green Badge Guide

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Escape from Colditz - Papercuts, Collage and Installation

The Robert Cripps Gallery is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition by Leipzig-based artist Annette Schröter. Inspired in part by her origins near Colditz Castle in Germany and by the tales of wartime derring-do immortalised in the 1970s BBC TV series “Colditz”, Escape from Colditz is a contemplation on the theme of escape or escapism presented in a unique series of papercuts and collage.

2:05PM

Highlight Shades of Survival to premiere at Cambridge Film Festival 2025

Shades of Survival (2025) is a powerful documentary film which highlights global inequities in breast cancer care for Black women and features Cambridge breast cancer researchers and clinicians.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

"Assisted Memories: Have Your Cake and Eat It" - The Baxandall Lecture by Professor Amos Lapidoth

Using a simple model for defective memories, Professor Lapidoth shall demonstrate some of Shannon’s key theorems on Data Compression and Channel Coding, which are at the heart of Information Theory.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

AI Companions: Ethical Challenges, Interaction Design Standards, and Regulatory Horizons

The Lucy Skills Programme’s first public event is a lecture given by Dr Tomasz Hollanek of Jesus College on the ethics, regulatory framework and standards of AI Companions.

7:30PM - 8:45PM

Artists Against the Kremlin

Hear from 'Artists Against the Kremlin' exhibition curator Vladimir Shalamov about how protest art has played a political role from Tsarist Russia to the present day.