Open Cambridge
A celebration of local history, Open Cambridge is back taking place 6-15 September 2024.
| Mon 22 May 2023 | 12:00AM |
Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge. |
| 9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
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| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
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| 1:30PM - 3:30PM |
Highlight Meet & Make at the Museum Join us for our museum wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative. |
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| 6:15PM - 7:45PM |
Small class with experienced teacher Robert Ashman. |
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| Tue 23 May 2023 | 12:00AM |
Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge. |
| 9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
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| 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Learning to teach controversial topics in school science education A part of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Easter Research Seminar Series |
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| Wed 24 May 2023 | 12:00AM |
Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge. |
| 9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
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| Thu 25 May 2023 | 12:00AM |
Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge. |
| 9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
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| 11:45AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight WANG DONGLING: INK. SPACE. TIME. Site-specific exhibition of contemporary Chinese calligraphy based on Laozi and Stephen Hawking by Wang Dongling, one of the greatest living practitioners of Chinese calligraphy. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography Professor Maurizio Viroli (Princeton University) will speak about Niccolò Machiavelli’s "Florentine Histories" (1532) and engage in discussion with the attendees. |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Christmas with Raymond Briggs Cambridge University Library will be taking an out of season look at Raymond Briggs's festive classics, and the traditions of Christmas storytelling. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Eating local: The Key to Food Security? Eat local is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of our diet. Food prices have been increasing forcing many families into poverty, and supermarkets have seen empty shelves for certain types of food. So the question that many are asking is “why can’t we just make or grow that food here and stop relying on imports?”. |
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| Fri 26 May 2023 | 12:00AM |
Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge. |
| 9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
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| 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
Environmental emergencies in the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 1 |
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| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
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| 1:30PM - 3:00PM |
Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 2 |
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| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
Britain's role in the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 3 |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
The Emergence of Arctic Resources: impacts on geopolitics, the green transition and sustainability A talk from the former EU Ambassador to the Arctic, Honorary Wolfson Fellow Marie Anne Coninsx, on the emergence of arctic resources in a warming climate and their impact on geopolitics, the green transition and sustainability. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:30PM |
Cambridge guides' scariest storytellers take you to the darker byways of our city, where the spirits of the dead still hover ... |
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| Sat 27 May 2023 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator. |
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
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| 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
A Treasure Hunt: The Quirky Side of Cambridge Hidden Cambridge's unique (and not app-based) treasure hunt will have you discovering quirky Cambridge-including hidden away work by Quentin Blake and something from the sculptor of "The Angel of the North", but not quite on that scale! |
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| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
|
| 11:45AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight WANG DONGLING: INK. SPACE. TIME. Site-specific exhibition of contemporary Chinese calligraphy based on Laozi and Stephen Hawking by Wang Dongling, one of the greatest living practitioners of Chinese calligraphy. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:30PM |
Cambridge guides' scariest storytellers take you to the darker byways of our city, where the spirits of the dead still hover ... |
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| Sun 28 May 2023 | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie. |
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. |
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| 11:30AM - 1:00PM |
Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides. |
|
| 11:45AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight WANG DONGLING: INK. SPACE. TIME. Site-specific exhibition of contemporary Chinese calligraphy based on Laozi and Stephen Hawking by Wang Dongling, one of the greatest living practitioners of Chinese calligraphy. |
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| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today. |