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10 Aug 2023: Explore the hidden histories of the Ancient India and Iran Trust. A selection of items will be on display during this drop-in event revealing the wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected origins of the Trust’s collections.

10 Aug 2023: Led by a trained guide, discover an ordinary terraced house with an extraordinary hand-painted interior. Home to the Victorian decorative artist, David Parr and his family, the house is an example of Arts and Crafts workmanship layered with

10 Aug 2023: 'Her unique character and encouraging teaching meant that she was an inspiration to generations of students'. As well as an inspirational teacher, Kay Melzi was also a respected artist in her own right, and a number of her artworks are displayed in

10 Aug 2023: The Parker Library is one of the greatest national heritage treasures. It is internationally renowned for its important collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, as well as its valuable holdings of early printed books.

10 Aug 2023: The development of the Old Press / Mill Lane site by Pembroke College has created a dynamic new City quarter, and as well as providing additional accommodation for the College, provides publicly accessible gardens, exhibition and performance spaces .

10 Aug 2023: The grounds and gardens at St John’s are undoubtedly one of the College’s greatest assets. Over the last five centuries a wide variety of architectural styles and landscaping techniques have been used to produce the gardens, courts and buildings

10 Aug 2023: Join Cambridge Green Badge guide Leigh Watson for a walk around Cambridge’s city centre to look at some of Cambridge’s lesser known characters, as well as some odd facts and stories about the city.

10 Aug 2023: Elizabeth Fry, nee Gurney, (1780—1845), Quaker minister and social reformer made a seminal impact on the treatment of convicts in Victorian Britain.

10 Aug 2023: A modern reimagining of the founding of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Told though textile incorporating our archive and art collections. Explore our Polar Library as part of your visit. Drop in event, Ages 12+

10 Aug 2023: Come and see Girton's treasures, donated by alumnae and friends since the founding of the college: ancient Egyptian funerary figures and amulets, the unique portrait mummy of Hermione Grammatike, Greek terracotta deities, children and animals, plus

10 Aug 2023: The Button End band are a Cambridgeshire group who enjoy playing early music, social and ritual dance tunes, popular ballads, protest songs and contemporary folk. All of it meticulously researched and presented within a social context.

10 Aug 2023: The Old Library has recently been refurbished and now houses the college archives (amongst other things). Our Archivist will meet you at the Porters' Lodge and take you on a short tour through Old Court to the Old Library, introducing Selwyn's

10 Aug 2023: The Women’s Art Collection is Europe’s largest collection of art by women. It includes 600 works by leading artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Paula Rego, Lubaina Himid, Faith Ringgold, Tracey Emin and Cindy Sherman.

10 Aug 2023: Experience the Grade 1 listed neo-classical Senate-House, designed by James Gibbs, built 1722-1730. and situated in the City centre between King's College and Gonville and Caius College.

10 Aug 2023: Situated on Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute is one of the largest departments at the University of Cambridge, core funded by Cancer Research UK.

10 Aug 2023: Building Fitzwilliam - The Lasdun Years Denys Lasdun is one of the most recognised architects of the twentieth century and was the creative mind behind some of the country's most important cultural and educational projects such as the National

10 Aug 2023: This event is now fully booked. We are operating a waitlist and you can join this via the Eventbrite booking link. Enjoy a guided tour of this less well known World War II airfield and see the collection of artefacts telling the personal stories of

10 Aug 2023: The Fellows' Garden on Queens Road is an interesting historic garden of about 8 acres with impressive specimen trees, mixed borders and informal lawns with notable influences throughout from Trinity Fellows over the years.

10 Aug 2023: Discover Cambridge in a new light with map created by The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, that shows landmarks related to existential risks that we research including disease outbreaks, environmental change and technological acceleration.

10 Aug 2023: This new dance work is called Tender Stones and is an artistic and poetic exercise in making stone, informed by Pembroke College’s original site, the work wants us to consider ways we connect the past to a present and how we pay attention to time