A small museum, with a big story to share
Whose restless spirits roam our corridors and rooms after darkness falls…?
Over hundreds of years, we must have gathered a ghost or two along the way. Join our friends from Ghost Hunt UK for a night of paranormal investigation and experience our Museum in a new and very different way.
For centuries, builders and homeowners secreted spiritual middens, such as shoes, bones and witch bottles, in the walls, fireplaces and under the floors in order to protect their property, their kin and themselves from the forces of witchcraft. Using some rarely displayed objects from our own collection, we are exploring the customs and traditions that guarded Cambridgeshire homes against evil intent.
Before the advent of St. Valentine’s Day cards, expressions of affection in the Fenland villages came in sweet but rather unusual guises. So many of these practices of love and courtship have sadly fallen aside, but you can learn of some of them in our special Valentine’s Day Exhibition, hosted in the Fens and Fenland Room
Join us on Saturday and make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart
Join us on St. Valentine's Day to make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart
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Cambridge textile artist Jenny Langley explores how working with recycled materials feeds her creativity and inspires her to try new and different ideas
Ever seen a peregrine falcon or a tawny owl up close? Well now is your chance, because we have invited some of these magnificent birds, along with their keepers, to visit the Museum for the afternoon. Raptors are predatory birds
The violence arising from the witch mania that consumed the country is well known, but the steps taken by individuals to protect their homes, their kin and themselves are often overlooked. There was so much that could be done to stop a witch from causing harm and all that was needed was a single, worn shoe…
If your curiosity is piqued by the extraordinary, then we have quite a tale to tell you.
Come visit and discover more about the remarkable Elizabeth Woodcock, a resident of the village of Impington who survived for nearly eight days in a cave of snow after a fall from her horse on a tempestuous evening in February 1799
