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10 Aug 2023: Explore the Wolfson College grounds which feature a wonderful variety of trees on-site, many of which are part of our Tree Trail. Collect a copy of the Tree Trail from the Porters' Lodge and enjoy our beautiful and varied garden 'rooms' at your own

10 Aug 2023: Tales from the kitchen - old utensils tell a story. The Mill Road History Society invites you to bring an old kitchen utensil or household object along to the Ross Street Community Centre and to recount a short history of it, how it was used and

10 Aug 2023: Find out about some of the animals that live in our towns and cities. Use the trail to look for these amazing creatures in our collections that are so often overlooked.

10 Aug 2023: Quakers keep themselves to themselves. It isn’t that they’re secretive so much as naturally quiet, but the result is the same: no one but a Quaker has a clue who the Quakers are. This is your chance to find out.

10 Aug 2023: Join Dr. Joshua Nall, Director of the Whipple Museum, for a tour of the highlights of the museum's collection. The Whipple Museum's collection includes scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other

10 Aug 2023: Built circa 1578 on the site of an 11th century priory, and now home to a community belonging to the Triratna Buddhist community, Abbey House has a rich history. Guided tours take you on a journey through the grounds and house, spiced with stories

11 Aug 2023: Explore the University of Cambridge's first co-working hub on the West Cambridge site. Come and see what facilities and services we offer that are available to you by enjoying a guided tour.

15 Aug 2023: An opportunity to see some treasures from the Whipple Library rare book collection, featuring some of the earliest Western Scientific books, works by Darwin, Galileo, Newton and more, and (possibly) the smallest scientific book ever printed… This

10 Aug 2023: Sustainability is a big theme: but it also starts with You. Eddington, the growing neighbourhood in Cambridge, hosts a family friendly event where you can learn tips to lead a more environmentally sustainable life.

10 Aug 2023: The Leper Chapel dates from 1125 when it was built as a place of worship for Lepers at an adjacent hospital. The building has 900 years of fascinating history, in that time being used as bar, warehouse, dwelling, for animals and a place of worship.

10 Aug 2023: Town End Close is a small nature reserve with ridge and furrow pattern. Join volunteers from the Girton Green Team and the Local Nature Recovery Plan to find out more about the plants, birds, insects and pond life found at the reserve. Drop in for a

10 Aug 2023: This event is now fully booked. We are operating a waitlist and you can join this via the Eventbrite booking link. Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Cambridge University Farm.

10 Aug 2023: Take some time out of your day to engage your senses with the sights and sounds of Wolfson's plants and wildlife. A guided talk and discovery tour of Wolfson College gardens: a series of lawned courtyards forming a set of garden ‘rooms’, with

10 Aug 2023: Do you have to be a pacifist? Are you all vegetarian? Do you have to believe in God? The answer to all these questions is no, but there is common ground between Quakers and there are things that unite our community.

10 Aug 2023: An informal, one hour tour of the Girton College gardens led by the head gardener. Including the fellow’s garden and the new sensory garden.

29 Aug 2023: Table Tennis is loved and enjoyed by all ages across the world. This is your opportunity to take part in this action packed Sport. All ability levels are welcome and invited to come down and take on the challenge of this quick and addictive Sport.

10 Aug 2023: An opportunity to discover about the single Grade I listed building in Cottenham, a medieval church with distinctive 17th-century tower. Further information on website https://friendsofallsaintscottenham.com/

10 Aug 2023: Gurpran Rau - Artist statement These paintings were inspired by my walks in the woods of Cambridgeshire during the challenging days of lockdown.

10 Aug 2023: This short film takes a free interpretive approach, capturing the restored steam boiler and engines at Cambridge Museum of Technology – and the actions of the volunteers who run them – with a creative, audio description.

10 Aug 2023: The tour takes you around the gardens, which are a combination of several original gardens. The largest is the central one of Thorneycreek House, built in 1895. Four original formal gardens of other houses now link into this on the Adams Road side

10 Aug 2023: Come and explore Woodwalton Fen NNR and enjoy the opportunity to go inside the historic Rothschild Bungalow. Pick up a trail leaflet and get to know the heritage and wildlife of this incredible site.

10 Aug 2023: Explore hidden aspects of plant science research at the Sainsbury Laboratory. You will get to use scientific tools, tour the lab and generate and interpret data relating to current SLCU research. Further details will be posted on https://www.slcu.cam

10 Aug 2023: Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623, we are delighted to exhibit the King's Library copy (one of only four copies in Cambridge) alongside other early editions of his plays and archival

10 Aug 2023: “Fenner’s” is well known in Cambridge, even amongst those who know little about cricket, but being named after the University Cricket Ground is currently Frank Fenner’s only legacy.

10 Aug 2023: An exhibition of items associated with monarchs called Charles, marking the Coronation of Charles III. The centrepiece is a magnificent folio edition of the works of Charles I, purchased in 1662 by a college eager to disassociate itself from Oliver

10 Aug 2023: Early Quakers reused fabric for personal quilts and had a tradition of making quilts to mark important events, and celebrate community. Quaker Friendship quilts were sometimes made by young women to say goodbye to their family, or as mementoes to

10 Aug 2023: As part of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre Open Day, there will be tours of the Grade II listed Festival Theatre, taster sessions on meditation, mindfulness-based stress reduction, yoga, and pilates, as well as introductions to Buddhism, and the

10 Aug 2023: The gardens are a much-appreciated amenity appreciated by college members and visitors.

10 Aug 2023: Join us to explore the many volumes collected by Karen Spärck Jones, the scientist often known as the woman who laid the foundation for the internet search engine.

10 Aug 2023: Hand stitching is a slow rhythmic craft that describes both the functional and symbolic dimensions of joining and being attached, and as such it has become a daily social encounter for Gavin Fry.

10 Aug 2023: Ian Giles' 'Edward/Maurice' explores the legacy of two of Cambridge's most acclaimed, and queer, writers: Christopher Marlowe and E.M Forster.

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: 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.