A small museum, with a big story to share
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
Join us on Saturday and make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart
Both sessions of Can You Keep a Secret are fully booked and we are operating waiting lists - sorry
Join us on St. Valentine's Day to make your very own love token for the person most dear to your heart
Tickets for Discovering Cambridge have sold out
