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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

Activity: Raptor Day at the Museum

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

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

Free

Talk: Safeguards Against Witchcraft – Local Protective Practices

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

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…

Free

Exhibition: All in a Cave of Snow – the Strange Tale of Elizabeth Woodcock

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

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

Exhibition: Mary Charlotte Greene – Streets, Inns, Yards and Courts of Cambridge, 1894 – 1950

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

EXTENDED DUE TO DEMAND

"Cambridge had called me to it and I love the place"
The works of Mary Charlotte Greene capture the streetscapes, buildings, inns, yards, and courts of Cambridge, many of which were demolished in the first half of the 20th century. Join us from 30 March to view her drawings, watercolours, prints and oil paintings and explore a unique record of the history and development of our city.