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Mon 24 November 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

Little Robin's Christmas Trail

Join Little Robin in the Botanic Garden to find some festive plants.

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.

5:45PM - 7:15PM

Highlight From Servants to Successors: The Evitable Journey of Artificial Intelligence to Replace Humanity

We call AI servants. But what if they are our heirs? If humanity is not the final form of intelligence, then are we merely the biological launchpad for our true successors? Do not miss this chance to hear the latest thinking on one of the most important issues of our times.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment - Professor Marie Edmonds FRS

Professor Marie Edmonds FRS will describe my own research in carrying out measurements of volcanic gases (using a range of spectroscopic methods, from the ground and using drones), and analysis of erupted lavas, to understand the chemistry and physics of volcanic outgassing and its role in sustaining our planetary environment.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Winter Wildlife: Ice Age Earth Livestream

Join us LIVE online as we chat to Ice Age expert Dr Richard Preece. All ages very welcome.