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9 Feb 2024: Join The Herd for early years free play in a room filled with possibilities - explore, touch, build, imagine, play. We’re transforming a part of Cambridge Festival into a pop-up playground filled with recycled materials. Every item in the space

14 Jul 2024: Faculty of Classics. 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March. East Barnwell Community Centre.

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever wondered how doctors calculate your heart health? Did you know researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit can predict if you are likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years?

9 Feb 2024: Kapla workshops are a wonderful way for children to discover their creativity and building skills. Join us in one of our workshops, facilitated by Jennier Norie of KAPLA UK, to have a go for yourselves.

9 Feb 2024: During the Cambridge Festival, students and staff from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts will be attending a variety of talks, events, workshops and activities.

9 Feb 2024: 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

9 Feb 2024: Come and learn about cells: the building blocks of our bodies! Our bodies contain around 100 trillion cells, which carry out a huge range of important jobs such as making energy from food, communicating messages from one part of the body to another,

9 Feb 2024: Play our game of statistics, skill and luck, and find out if you are truly better at throwing than your friend, or are you just lucky? Or try our bespoke board game to find out how Dr Marble will find out the best treatment to give to patients.

9 Feb 2024: Explore the history of science through the Whipple Museum’s collection of instruments, models and pictures. Use the handling boxes in the learning gallery to explore the human body, light and shadows, and a range of other scientific concepts.

14 Jul 2024: Faculty of Classics. 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March. East Barnwell Community Centre.

9 Feb 2024: Some of the team from the Department of Archaeology, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be showcasing the variety of research within archaeology, through a range of hands-on activities

9 Feb 2024: Join Dr Jo for a fun and informative, interactive show as we journey around the human body, discovering wonders of biology along the way.

9 Feb 2024: Most diseases start in childhood, but most health research is carried out in adults.

9 Feb 2024: Join researchers from the Department of Genetics for a variety of hands-on activities showing how genetics pops up in our everyday life.

9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family! From Amazing Animals to Romani storytelling, from bubble science to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity

9 Feb 2024: Join the enchanting Romani storyteller, renowned author and toymaker Richard O’Neill, often dubbed the “Romani Hans Christian Anderson”. Prepare to be captivated as he weaves his spellbinding tales, offering a delightful array of original and

9 Feb 2024: How do you wash hands correctly to help prevent the spread of infectious microbes? What do bacteria look like? Find out by looking at them through a microscope. Use craft materials to build your own microbes to learn about the structure of bacteria

9 Feb 2024: Come and join us for a chat and an ice cream with some rare flavours that may not be around much longer. What can we do to take action? How can we contribute to solve the climate crisis? Can we find solutions so we do not have to shout Ice Cream!

9 Feb 2024: In the Bubble Superstars Show, we'll be exploring bubbles of different sizes and investigating their shapes and colours too. The show is specially designed for very young children and children with special needs, so everyone can join in making

9 Feb 2024: Get hands-on with scientists from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute to learn about the work they are doing as part of our mission for 3 in 4 people to survive cancer by 2034.