A small museum, with a big story to share
With some happy news to start the spring at the Museum: thanks to the National Lottery Players, the Museum has been awarded £99,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to support our Firm Foundations and Flourishing Future project! The National
Capturing Cambridge Open Day on 28th March was set up as a one-day event to allow locals of Cambridge city and the wider county the opportunity to record and share their histories. Created as an in-person event to support the
Between 25th and 27th February 1847, the big contest for University Chancellor took place.
It is with huge delight that the Museum of Cambridge announces that it has been awarded Arts Council England Funding through the National Lottery to work with the African Caribbean Research Group on a new project in 2024 and 2025.
It’s the new year and Valentines Day is almost upon us. It is a holiday that did not exist in the 1840s, but that did not stop romances from blossoming. Josiah Chater, a young 16-year-old drapers apprentice, recorded in his
The Museum of Cambridge is currently digitalising a series of diaries written in the 1840s. They are by Josiah Chater, a young drapers apprentice who lived in Market Street. Following the hard work of our team of Research Volunteers, we
We are thrilled to share some exciting news – our Museum shop is about to undergo a fantastic transformation! Thanks to the generous support of the Steps to Sustainability project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and delivered by
Earlier in the summer, the Museum of Cambridge welcomed two very special visitors for an important medal ceremony. It was not the Mayor bestowing any grand titles upon a worthy citizen of Cambridge, but it was just as noble a
Enid Porter’s love of all things to do with the Fens is well known and we are justly proud of the collection of objects you can see in our Fen room – the eel basket, the ice skates, as well
Hanging behind the reception counter at the Museum of Cambridge is the unmissable sign, R.MAYNARD ENGINEER WHITTLESFORD Who was he? Well, it was a Robert Maynard who in 1834 set up a foundry making agricultural implements on Whittlesford High Street.