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10 Aug 2023: The Wren Library at Trinity College is one of Christopher Wren’s great masterpieces of architecture. 2023 commemorates the 300th anniversary of his death and we have a special exhibition looking at how he designed and created the space.

10 Aug 2023: St John’s College is wildly, improbably happy to present an exhibition celebrating the publication of *42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams*.

10 Aug 2023: There was a time when Quakers frowned on the arts, their dress and meeting spaces were plain and simple. However, modern day Quakers embrace the arts enthusiastically. Quaker - inspired artist, Rory Pilgrim is one of this year’s Turner Prize

10 Aug 2023: An art workshop to harness the creativity of childhood, to be held in the College grounds. Will include a visit to a small exhibition of Kay Melzi's work in the College Library. Kathleen (Kay) Melzi was an inspirational Art teacher at Homerton

10 Aug 2023: Between 2015-16 archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavated the remains of one of the best-preserved Bronze Age settlements ever discovered in the UK.

10 Aug 2023: All Saints Church, in Jesus Lane opposite Jesus College, will be open to visitors on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of September between 10am and 4pm.

10 Aug 2023: 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?

10 Aug 2023: Take a tour behind the scenes in the Cambridgeshire Collection at Cambridge Central Library. See some of the material in our archive store and learn more about the history of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. The tour is down a flight of stairs. A lift

10 Aug 2023: Alfred Waterhouse is best known as a designer of public buildings in the eo-Gothic style, but he drew on other styles from the past too, and numerous building types are represented in his huge output. He was the first child of a Quaker family, and

10 Aug 2023: Tea and Tour of Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue welcomes everybody to our beautiful purpose-built building on the edge of Midsummer Orchard. The synagogue will be open with an exhibition about Judaism and Jews; and there

10 Aug 2023: This walking tour, led by a Green Badge guide, celebrates women who have sometimes been left out of the Cambridge story. We’ll discover stories of actors and activists, bedders and brewers, scholars and sex workers, and many more. This is a tour

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: 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: '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: 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: 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: 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

10 Aug 2023: Opened in April 2022 the dining hall at Homerton College has already won a number of awards, including the Wood Awards of 2022.

10 Aug 2023: A guided walking tour (in all weathers!) will explore the industrial heritage of Cambridge's power generation and energy consumption: past, present and future.

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

10 Aug 2023: The session will feature the remarkable history and heritage, - the first home of the University, royal visits, especially of Elizabeth I in 1564, the important role played in the Reformation, the great debates, the two organs, and of course our

10 Aug 2023: During Open Cambridge, visitors to Emmanuel are invited to a talk and process demonstration by Roxanne and Vince Kindersley from Cambridge's Cardozo Kindersley Workshop.