| 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. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Our Autumn Art Adventure is back! |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
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. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
There is old magic in the trees, and the magpies know where to find it |
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| 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? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:45PM |
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. |
