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Sat 26 September 9:00AM - 4:30PM

Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers

A free exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

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 - 5:00PM

A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire

Experience the vibrant world of song, poetry and performance of Mughal South Asia from around 1750 to 1850.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Art Exhibition: 'Images and Other Conversations'

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'Images and Other Conversations', featuring work by artists Suleman Aqeel Khilji and Charlotte Winifred Guérard, winners of the Wolfson Royal Academy Schools Graduate Prize.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime

Experience the dynamic paint, vivid colour, and bold vision of contemporary British painter Frank Bowling. Celebrating a career lasting nearly seven decades, our exciting display brings together a lifetime of the artist’s work.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Portraits of Cambridge: A Town in Transition

Exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge

10:30AM - 4:00PM

Nature Printing from David Parr’s Garden with Caroline Wendling

Spent a Saturday creating your own nature prints in a small hands-on workshop, with a slow and immersive walk around the garden observing and picking some of its flora and a glimpse inside David Parr House for inspiration on pattern design.

11:00AM

Highlight David Hockney: Beneath the Surface

Opening on 1 July and running throughout the summer at MODO in Cambridge, the exhibition places Hockney's iconic swimming pool works at the centre of a new immersive and interactive gallery experience.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now

This major survey exhibition will reveal Sunil Gupta’s (b.1953, New Delhi) pioneering contribution to photography over five decades.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

TEN GOOD YEARS

Free exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

GLOBAL CULTURES: HANGING BY A WIRE 26 SEPT 2026

Join us at Jesus College, Cambridge, for a screening of Hanging by a Wire. When a cable car wire snaps, eight passengers – including six schoolboys – are left dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the Himalayan foothills. Tickets are available below.

4:00PM - 6:00PM

GLOBAL CULTURES: THE CYCLE OF LOVE 26 SEPT 2026

Join us at Jesus College, Cambridge, for a screening of a love story like no other. The Cycle of Love is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about self-belief, destiny and the courage to risk everything for love, traversing continents in a journey spanning Delhi to Sweden. Tickets are available below.