Check out the artworks on display, get hands-on in a workshop, spark ideas in a talk, or simply relax to live music with good food and great company.
Drop- in, Free
Everyone is welcome
What is an orrery? Why is the clock chiming 13? Why would you collect and display a set of plaster horses’ teeth, some green spectacles and several hundred pocket calculators?
Join us for a tour of the Whipple’s collection in 10 objects, featuring spectacular instruments, fascinating scientific stories, and links to some of Cambridge’s most famous names.
Meet at the reception point in the Main Gallery.
Come and see what the doctor ordered... Step inside the iconic 1934 Cambridge University Library building to explore this free exhibition.
The culmination of a two-year Wellcome-funded research project, to digitise, catalogue and conserve over 180 precious medieval medical manuscripts, Curious Cures brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library and twelve Cambridge colleges.
Video games have progressed from simple black and white pixelated play to immersive epics that rival any blockbuster movie. But how did this happen?
What did Nintendo make before Mario, and who was their real competitor in Japan?
This tour lasts around 45 minutes, and provides an opportunity to discuss and even argue the merits and weaknesses of your favourite consoles and games! Booking essential.
Video games have progressed from simple black and white pixelated play to immersive epics that rival any blockbuster movie. But how did this happen?
What did Nintendo make before Mario, and who was their real competitor in Japan?
This tour lasts around 45 minutes, and provides an opportunity to discuss and even argue the merits and weaknesses of your favourite consoles and games! Booking essential.
Mr Whipple really loved optics, instruments which use light to help scientists to see things. That means that the Whipple museum is packed with microscopes, telescopes and even spectacles and opera glasses! Come and explore some of our handling instruments, find out how to bend and reflect light and create your own spectacular spectacles.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Mr Whipple really loved optics, instruments which use light to help scientists to see things. That means that the Whipple museum is packed with microscopes, telescopes and even spectacles and opera glasses! Come and explore some of our handling instruments, find out how to bend and reflect light and create your own spectacular spectacles.
Drop in session.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Mr Whipple really loved optics, instruments which use light to help scientists to see things. That means that the Whipple museum is packed with microscopes, telescopes and even spectacles and opera glasses! Come and explore some of our handling instruments, find out how to bend and reflect light and create your own spectacular spectacles.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
We just love reptiles! Join us on World Lizard Day as we celebrate reptiles with family craft activities and lots of reptile skulls to handle, including lizard and crocodile skulls! Plus seek out all the reptiles we have on display in the Museum.
Activities will all take place in the Discovery Room in the Lower Gallery of the Museum. Suitable for all age groups.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Join us for an expert guided tour of the Museum. Why is there a fin whale skeleton in Cambridge? What can we learn from our Dodo skeleton? What did Darwin collect here and on the Voyage of the Beagle, and what can these collections tell us about him and is ideas on evolution? Hear these stories and more on an expert guided tour around the Museum of Zoology.
