WHAT'S ON

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Summer at the Museums: digging for buried treasure

Become an archaeologist for the day. Learn more about life in ancient Greece and Rome.

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Summer at the Museums: animal adornments

Find out about different cultures use of animal adornments and help dress our model. Get hands on with some real skulls and topical shells.

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Christopher Wood

This new exhibition explores the work of the charismatic English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930).

Summer at the Museums: the mystery of the Abbey

Follow our interactive trail and get help from the monks and nuns so that you can solve the mystery

Art Speak

Enjoy half an hour looking at and talking about art at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

Summer at the Museums: rockets and cranes

Design and make your own cranes and rockets! We’ll test the cranes to breaking point and fire the rockets into the air.

Summer at the Museums: ‘dreams of summer' workshop

Build a Victorian seaside environment with life-sized 3D sea bathers, a working Punch and Judy booth and seaside snack stall out of cardboard boxes.

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Summer at the Museums: stories behind the stitches!

Find out about schoolgirl samplers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and have a go at trying some stitches of your own!

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Summer at the Museums: summer safari trails

Don your Pith Helmet and your boots and come on Safari at the Museum with trails and craft activities.

Christopher Wood

This new exhibition explores the work of the charismatic English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930).

Summer at the Museums: garden lanterns

Explore how light transforms coloured glass. Make your own lantern to illuminate your garden at home.

Summer at the Museums: summer safari trails

Don your Pith Helmet and your boots and come on Safari at the Museum with trails and craft activities.

The things some things say

A workshop at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology with Creative Fellow, Alana Jelinek, exploring the objects on display from their point of view. Part of a series running through 2013.

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

The fork's tale

The Fork’s Tale, as narrated by Itself The story of a cannibal fork in the collections of the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology’s, complete with drawings from its point of view.

Summer at the Museums: ‘dreams of summer' workshop

Build a Victorian seaside environment with life-sized 3D sea bathers, a working Punch and Judy booth and seaside snack stall out of cardboard boxes.

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Summer at the Museums: summer holiday craft and activities

A fun day of summer crafts and activities

Christopher Wood

This new exhibition explores the work of the charismatic English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930).

Summer at the Museums: the mystery of the Abbey

Follow our interactive trail and get help from the monks and nuns so that you can solve the mystery

Summer at the Museums: family fun and crafts

A fun day of arts and crafts.

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

The snow Queen retold

The Snow Queen Retold is a collaboration between SPRI Invited poet Kaddy Benyon and textile artist Lindsey Holmes.

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Summer at the Museums: magnetic mini-beast maze

Make a mini-magnetic maze, suitable for a bug. Please bring along a tea-tray to build your maze on.

Christopher Wood

This new exhibition explores the work of the charismatic English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930).

Summer at the Museums: magnetic mini-beast maze

Make a mini-magnetic maze, suitable for a bug. Please bring along a tea-tray to build your maze on.

Summer at the Museums: tour of the Museum

Step into the past with our curator.

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

The snow Queen retold

The Snow Queen Retold is a collaboration between SPRI Invited poet Kaddy Benyon and textile artist Lindsey Holmes.

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Summer at the Museums: big draw on tour

Our Museums are on tour! Join us for a drawing workshop inspired by the Library Reading Challenge “The Creepy House”

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Christopher Wood

This new exhibition explores the work of the charismatic English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930).

Lyndsey Stemp concerts - Michaelhouse

A potent mix of music and poetry in a musical improvisation of Matthew Arnold's poems.

Object handling session

An opportunity to look in more detail at some of the pieces in the Origins of the Afro Comb exhibition.

Summer at the Museums: object handling

Look at the Origins of the Afro Comb exhibition in more detail.

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

Glass, science and our relationship with the body

An exhibition by Charlotte Morrison

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

Nadja artists: (im)perfection

An exhibition of work in response to the pressure to conform to societal norms

Summer at the Museums: weird and wonderful Summer trails

Each week in August pick up a different backpack trail from the ticket office and discover the weird and wonderful world of plants

Christopher Wood

This new exhibition explores the work of the charismatic English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930).

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Studio Sundays

Drop in practical art workshops for all ages.

Summer at the Museums: studio Sunday sessions

Drop-in practical art workshops for all ages. Make your own artwork inspired by our exhibitions.