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Join Niki Chandler for a no sew workshop making stunning folded Christmas Scandi style stars. Maximum class size is 15, so booking is essential. Tickets cost £40 per person Specialist materials will be provided, please bring with you a basic
Join basket weaver Nadine Anderson for a workshop creating stars and hearts and other rustic decorations to grace your home and Christmas table. Maximum 15 people per workshop Suitable for adults and 13+ £20 per person (includes materials) Book your
Join basket weaver Nadine Anderson for a workshop creating stars and hearts and other rustic decorations to grace your home and Christmas table. Maximum 15 people per workshop Suitable for adults and 13+ £20 per person (includes materials) Book your
Join textile artist Annie Brown and learn how to make a beautiful needle felted landscape using natural and dyed, unspun wool. You will have the opportunity to try out various techniques and embellishments before beginning your main piece. Materials will
The Board of Trustees at the Museum of Cambridge are pleased to announce the 81st Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday 14th December 2017 at 7.15pm at the Museum.
Father Christmas takes time out from the busy run up to Christmas to visit the Museum! Join in the fun by writing a poem all about how you celebrate Christmas and send it into the Museum. Tell us what
We are preparing for a deep clean of the whole of our Museum during January, ready for us to reopen with everything spick-and-span in the second week of February 2018, and we need your assistance. Would you like to help
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
