Wednesday 19th February 2020 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM FREE One night. 15 museums. An unmissable evening of family adventure Don’t get left behind at Twilight, get ahead! Grab a torch and head out to the Museum of Archaeology and…
Tuesday 22nd of October
11am – 4pm
Discover how people from different times and places wrote messages or record numbers. Decipher ancient languages and make your own secret message to take home.
Wednesday 23rd of October 11am – 4pm
Thursday 24th of October
11am – 4pm
Challenges and makes inspired by the museum’s Anglo-Saxon collection.
Friday 25 October: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday 26 October: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Sunday 27 October: 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Take part in the Day of the Dead celebrations by helping the Museum and the Mexican Society build an Altar.
Date: Thursday 29th of August
Time: 12:30pm – 4pm
Ages: 5+
Date: Thursday 15th of August
Time: 12:30pm – 4pm
Ages: 5+
Date: Sunday, 16th of June
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Where: Babington Room, MAA
This workshop is for teachers or artists looking to lead a long-term recycled art project in their schools or studios.
Date: Sunday, 16th of June
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Where: MAA Gallery
Free, drop-in activity
Make a fish scale from ‘ghost nets’ (abandoned or lost fishing nets).
Thursday 7th of March
7pm – 9:30pm
Join the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for a celebration of all things Pacific.
Saturday 16th February
2pm-4pm
Organised by the Cambridge Spanish Centre.
Explorer teachers will lead a two-hours of fun Spanish workshop in the museum.
Wednesday 20th of February
4:30pm – 7:30pm
The lights are off, but the music is on!
FREE Family Workshop
Wednesday 20th of February
1pm – 2pm
Beats of Polynesia are coming to MAA for a family workshop!
Sunday 31st of March
Join us for a family-friendly musical tour across the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
and Museum of Zoology.
Play the Lottery? Enjoy a free tour on us.
Wednesday 5 December (1.30 – 2pm)
Saturday 8 December (2 – 2.30pm)
FREE
Wednesday 24 October, 7-10pm
Special evening opening, with researchers, cocktails and corpse medicine
Friday 26 October 3pm – 4pm
Saturday 27 October and Sunday 28 October 12noon – 1pm
Tuesday 23 October
Wednesday 24 October
11am – 4pm Drop in, suitable for all ages.
Friday 26 October, Saturday 27 October 11am – 4pm
Sunday 28 October 12noon – 4pm
Drop in, suitable for all ages
Tuesday 23 October
Wednesday 24 October
Thursday 25 October
11am – 4pm Drop in, suitable for all ages.
Join us for a relaxed morning aimed at children with sensory sensitivities along with their families, siblings & carers on Monday 20 August between 10am – 12pm. We will be opening our museum at this time when we are normally…
Wednesday 1st of August
10:30am – 12:30pm
Be inspired by MAA’s collection of woven objects from the Pacific and weave your own fish or bag to take home.
Tuesday 31st of July, 10:30am – 12:30pm
Tuesday 21st of August, 10:30am – 12:30pm
Discover the mysterious antler headdresses of prehistoric Star Carr in Yorkshire and make your own headdress to take away.
Thursday 30th of August
1pm – 4pm
Learn how people from across the world have navigated the oceans with help from the Whipple Museum.
Wednesday 25th of July
2pm – 3:30pm
Free
A chance to discover the new Pacific displays at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology through audio description and object handling.
Monday 2nd July 2018, 12:30 – 6:00pm
A workshop exploring museum engagements with academic and community researchers, related to Engaging Collections Online, a project funded by the Designated Development Fund, Arts Council England.
Exploradores en el Museo:
Be a Spanish Explorer in the Museum
Saturday 14th April
2pm-4pm
11 July – 13 July 2018
This conference builds on the five-year Creative Europe project, Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage. SWICH has connected museums of ethnography and world cultures across ten countries.
Speakers include Arapata Hakiwai (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) and Sharon MacDonald (Humboldt University, Berlin).
Sunday 21st of January
2pm – 4pm
For one day only – see exciting new prototypes across four museums!
Friday 1st December 2017, 7:00pm – 9:30pm Prepare to be challenged. Inspired by our exhibition Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores stories of struggles and resistance from South Asia’s Adivasi (Indigenous) communities.…
Saturday 21st October 10:30am – 16:30pm
Drop in event for families.
Things to do and things to think about that get the whole family talking.
Saturday 21st October, 9:30-17:00
Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RH
A unique art event with artists, scientists, and anthropologists will exploring the question of climate change but from a different angle
Tuesday 24th October 2017 11:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday 25th October 2017 11:00am – 4:00pm
Thursday 26th October 2017 11:00am – 4:00pm
Friday 27th October 11:00am – 4:00pm
Drop-in crafts and activities based on our special exhibition Another India.
Saturday 29th of July
10:30am – 4pm
Join the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for a day-long family festival both inside and outside the Museum this summer.
Summer at the Museums drop in event
Wednesday 2nd August, 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Summer at the Museums drop in event
Wednesday 9th August, 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Wednesday 16th August, 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Summer at the Museums drop in event
Wednesday 23rd August 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Professor John Mack Narrating and Curating the ‘Ritual Object’ The lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday 13 June 2018 at 5.30pm and will take place at the McCrum Lecture Theatre at Corpus Christi College followed by a reception at the Museum.…
15 April 2017
2:00pm – 4:00pm
A weaving workshop which will allow participants to explore Pasifika weaving techniques and make a small container to take home.
15 April 2017
11:00am to 1:00pm
A weaving workshop to explore weaving techniques used in the production of coconut fibre armour from Kiribati.
15 February
4.30pm to 7.30pm
Against the odds, humans have survived and even thrived. MAA will show you how. See ancient weapons, clever tools, and canoes that have travelled miles. Pick the objects that you would use to survive in our special torchlight trail.
Saturday 28th January
14.00pm to 7.00pm
Join us to mark the closing of the exhibition, Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past, with a selection of events.
27 October: 5:30pm
Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 1
A roundtable discussion between seven curators and academics, visiting from South Africa, to mark the opening of the British Museum’s autumn exhibition South Africa: the art of a nation.
Tuesday 25 October: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday 26 October: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Thursday 27 October: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Friday 28 October: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Discover ancient Babylon with this board game. Seek a treasure for the great god Marduk in the maze of the city. Every encounter may change your fate… Will the odds be in your favour?
Wednesday 19 October
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A gallery talk by curator Dr Chris Wingfield about the temporary exhibition Carriers of Culture: Women, Food and Power from the Congo Basin
Tuesday 25 October 11:00am to 4:00pm
Wednesday 26 October: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Thursday 27 October: 11:00am to 4:00pm
The objects in the Museum’s Hide and Seek exhibition show that growing up can be hard work. Drop in and try out our activities. Can you complete the Museum’s Childhood Challenge?
Friday 28 October 11:00am to 4:00pm
Saturday 29 October 11:00am to 4:00pm
Sunday 30 October 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Join with Cambridge Mexican Society and MAA to help decorate our Day of the Dead altar in the Museum. Every 2nd of November, Mexicans decorate and prepare colourful home altars to honour deceased relatives for the Day of the Dead. Drop in and join in the crafts and trails or just see the altar as it grows over the weekend.
Two million years of human history
One million artefacts
Countless astonishing stories
The Museum is now closed until further notice. We cannot say when we will reopen, but we look forward to welcoming you back when we do.
Admission free
Tuesday – Saturday
10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. CLOSED
Sunday
12.00 noon – 4:30 p.m. CLOSED
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