Events Archive

The history of science is full of amazing stories of discovery and invention, but there are also darker stories to be told. Find out more about how scientists and scientific institutions have excluded women, belittled and appropriated indigenous knowledge and contributed to the development of "scientific" racism.

Come and find out more about some creepy, crawly creatures in our half term family activity sessions. Use microscopes to investigate insects, find out about beetles and scorpions and create your own model or drawing. 

Come and find out more about some creepy, crawly creatures in our half term family activity sessions. Use microscopes to investigate insects, find out about beetles and scorpions and create your own model or drawing. 

Detail of our activities during Cambridge Festival are available at the Cambridge Festival webpage.

Mrs Johnstone was keen to be remembered as the "sole inventor" of an educational cardboard globe, but other people used her ideas too! Explore her work and that of other women in the globes gallery and have a go at making your own globe. 

Why does the Whipple museum have a fume cupboard from a women's college? Explore the work of chemistry lecturer Ida Freund and find out about the chemical elements which make up everyday materials.

Discover one of the biggest objects in our collection, the Herschel telescope, and the work of astronomer Caroline Herschel. Learn to recognise constellations and make up your own.

Explore the work of botanical artist Carolina Dodel-Port and create some botanical designs of your own.

To attend this event, please book our Monday 14:00 ticket for the below date from the University of Cambridge Museums website.

Potatoes and barley are staples of British dinnerplates. Originally from the Peruvian Andes, potatoes journeyed to Britain in the sixteenth century and became side and centrepiece in all manner of meals. Barley's British history stretches back thousands of years, with malt long central to beer production.

Humans and other animals are made out of millions of tiny cells. Find out more about them using objects from the Whipple Museum collections and then create or draw your own cell model to remind yourself of how everything works.