Father Christmas visits 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

Volunteer Muster Meeting

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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

Ghost Hunt with Ghost Hunt UK

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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.

Exhibition: Safeguards Against Witchcraft

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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.

Exhibition: Accept My Love: a Display of Courtship Tokens for St. Valentine’s Day

Fens and Fenland Room, Museum of Cambridge 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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

Workshop: Make Your Own Love Token

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Join us on Saturday and make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart

Workshop: Make Your Own Valentine’s Love Token

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Join us on St. Valentine's Day to make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart

Talk: Bags of Yarn

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Cambridge textile artist Jenny Langley explores how working with recycled materials feeds her creativity and inspires her to try new and different ideas

Free