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Friends Event: Quimbaya. Metallurgy of the early period in pre-Columbian Colombia (4 - 5pm, 5 March 2024)


Twilight at the Museums (5 - 7pm, 21 February 2024)


Friends Event: Gauguin and Polynesia (2 - 3pm, 20 February 2024)


Lunar New Year Activities (10am - 4pm, 10 February 2024)


Friends Event: The Last Mughal Emperor’s Snakes and Ladders Board (2 - 3pm, 28 November 2023)


CANCELLED Friends Event: Beneath our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region (5:30 - 6:30pm, 14 November 2023)


Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Altar (27 October 2023 – 5 November 2023)


Taruwa at MAA (6 - 8pm, 31 October 2023)


Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Activities (10am - 5pm, 27 - 28 October 2023 and 12 - 5pm, 29 October 2023)


Strong female figures across the islands (1 - 2pm, 26 October 2023)


Baila Peru performance (3 - 4pm, 24 October 2023)


Revolutions and uprisings across the Caribbean (1 - 2pm, 12 October 2023)


Friends Event: Von Hügel Lecture 2023: Torres Strait collections and “the things we like best to know” (5 - 6pm, 11 October 2023)


Friends Event: 'Lady Clementine Spencer Churchill's Asmat Shield collection' (2 - 3pm, 6 September 2023)


Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology Inspired Family Activities (10am - 12pm, 3, 10, 17 and 24 August 2023)


Raksha Dave at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (3 - 4:30pm, 16 July 2023)


Friends Event: Documenting hazards and legacies of colonial knowledge production by Dr Ayesha Fuentes (2 - 3pm, 12 July 2023)


Arts and Minds: Free art workshops


Museum Ethnographers Group Conference (MEG): Un-Disciplining the Museum? Changing Practices of Care, Knowledge and Display (18 to 19 April 2023)


Museum Late for Teachers (6 - 8pm, 10 February 2023)


Devolving Restitution #4: Objects of Sovereignty (Online, 23 February 2022)


Twilight with the Museums: Digital Sleepover (From 4.30pm, 16 February 2022)


CANCELLED ‘Museum-Cased’ Ladies: A Special Evening Event (6pm – 8pm, 19 March 2020)


Bridging Binaries: LGBTQ+ Tours at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (22 February – 21 June 2020)


Twilight at the Museums (4.30pm – 7.30pm, 19 February 2020)


The Write Stuff (11am – 4pm, 22 October)


Could You Make it as an Anglo-Saxon? (11am – 4pm, 23 October; 11am – 4pm, 24 October)


Day of the Dead at MAA (11am – 4pm, 25-26 October; 12pm – 4pm, 27 October)


Summer at the Museums: Climate Change Challenge (12.30pm – 4pm, 29 August)


Summer at the Museums: Arty Antlers (12.30pm – 4pm, 22 August)


Summer at the Museums: Corals and Kiribati (12.30pm – 4pm, 15 August)


Erub Arts Teachers and Artists Workshop: 'Ghost Nets' (1pm – 4pm, 16 June)


Erub Arts Family Workshops: 'Ghost Nets' (1pm – 4pm, 16 June)


Pacific Late (7pm – 9.30pm, 7 March)


Exploradores en el Museo (2pm – 4pm, 16 February)


Twilight at the Museums: MAA's Magical Musical Tour (4.30pm – 7.30pm, 20 February)


Pacific Drumming Family Workshop (1pm – 2pm, 20 February)


Britten Sinfonia Academy Musical Museum Trail (12.30pm – 3.30pm, 31 March)


#ThanksToYou MAA Highlights Tour (1.30pm – 2pm, 5 December; 2pm – 2.30pm 8 December)


Museum Shop Sunday (12pm – 4pm, 25 November)


Plague Late (7pm – 10pm, 24 October)


Untold Histories Museum Tours (3pm – 4pm, 26 October; 12pm – 1pm, 27-28 October)


Read a Cuneiform Inscription (11am – 4pm, 23-24 October)


Build a Day of the Dead Altar (11am – 4pm, 26-27 October; 12pm – 4pm, 28 October)


Under the (plastic) sea (23 – 25 October)


'Relaxed opening' (10am – 12pm, 20 August)


Summer Drop In: Pacific Weaving (10:30am – 12:30pm, 1 August)


Summer Drop In: Arty Antlers (10:30am – 12:30pm, 31 July; 10:30am – 12:30pm, 21 August)


Summer Drop In: All at Sea (1pm – 4pm, 30 August)


Tour for blind and partially sighted adults: Exploring the Pacific (2pm – 3:30pm, 25 July)


Engaging 21st Century Researchers (12:30 – 6:00pm, 2 July 2018)


take-hold (Until 17 June 2018)


Exploradores en el Museo: Be a Spanish Explorer in the Museum (2pm – 4pm, 14 April)


SWICH Conference 2018  (11 – 13 July 2018)


Climate Hack Showcase (2pm – 4pm, 21 January)


Twilight at the Museums (4:30pm – 7:30pm, 13 February)


The Edge of India: Untold Stories, After Hours (7pm – 9:30pm, 1 December 2017)


Being and Change (10:30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 21 October)


Moot Point: Being and Change (9:30am – 5pm, 21 October, at Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RH)


Another India: Drop In (11am – 4pm, 24 October 2017 to 27th October 2017)


India Unboxed Family Festival (10:30am – 4pm, 29 July)


Summer Drop In: Indian Accessories (10.30am – 12pm, 2 August)


Summer Drop In: Indian Animals (10.30am – 12pm, 9 August; 10.30am – 12pm, 16 August)


Summer Drop In: Stories on Indian Scrolls  (10.30am – 12pm, 23 August)


Von Hügel Lecture 2018 - Professor John Mack (13 June 2018)


Weaving workshop with Kaetaeta Wilson, Lizzy Leckie and Chris Charteris (2pm – 4pm, 15 April)


Weaving armour with Kaetaeta Watson, Lizzy Leckie and Chris Charteris (11am – 1pm, 15 April)


Twilight at the Museum: MAA Versus Wild (4.30pm – 7.30pm, 15 February)


Exhibition Closing Event: Hide and Seek (2pm – 7pm, 28 January)


Roundtable discussion - South Africa: The Art of a Nation (5.30pm, 27 October)


Esagil: Treasure Hunt in Babylon (11am – 4pm, 25 – 28 October)


Missionaries and Moving Objects: Collecting on the Congo River (1pm – 2pm, 19 October)


Two million years of human history. One million artefacts. Countless astonishing stories.