Past events

Sound Bath (5:45 - 7pm, 3 and 26 February, and 26 March 2026)

How The British Fell in Love With Curry (5:30 - 6:30pm, 18 March 2026)

Music at MAA: Heron's Creek (7 - 8pm, 12 March 2026)

Friends Event: Von Hügel Lecture 2025-2026: Pasifika Styles and other Pacific Museum Stories (5 - 6pm, 5 March 2026)

Lunar New Year Activities (10am - 12pm and 1 - 3pm, 21 February 2026)

Twilight at the Museums (4:30 - 7:30pm, 18 February 2026)

MAA Voices: Nahoft Ensemble (7 - 8pm, 29 January 2026)

'Nataraja - The lord of Dance' (5:30pm - 6:30pm, 21 January 2026)

CANCELLED Music at MAA: Indonesian Gamelan Music (7pm - 8:30pm, 21 November 2025)

Winter Craft Market (12 - 5pm, 9 November 2025)

Make Japanese winter coasters (boro/sashiko) (10am - 12:30pm, 8 November 2025)

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Altar (28 October 2025 - 7 November 2025)

Día de los Muertos Family Activities (1 - 3pm, 30 and 31 October 2025 and 10am - 4pm, 1 November 2025)

CANCELLED Mindfulness in the Museum 5 - 5:30pm, 23, 30 October, 6 and 13 November 2025)

Voices Across the Pacific (7- 9pm, 17 October 2025)

Tau o Mai – In conversation with Miriama Bono and Tahe Drollet (1 - 2pm, 14 October 2025)

Access and Engagement Power Hour (2 - 3pm, 8 October 2025)

Open Cambridge: Tour of the Stores (2 - 3:30pm. 16 September 2025)

Summer at the Museums: Thursday Fun at MAA (2 - 4pm, 31 July, 7, 14 and 21 August 2025)

Exploring the MAA Centre for Material Culture: Patterns in Print (2 - 4pm, 20 August 2025)

Exploring the MAA Centre for Material Culture: Personal Adornments - Beads and Brooches  (2 - 4pm, 13 August 2025)

Summer at the Museums: Disability Friendly Opening (10am - 12pm, 11 August 2025)

Exploring the MAA Centre for Material Culture: Toys and Games (2 - 4pm, 6 August 2025)

Exploring the MAA Centre for Material Culture: Amulets and Charms (2 - 4pm, 30 July 2025)

Kupala Midsummer Ukrainian Folk Pop-Up Concert (2 - 3pm, 28 June 2025)

New Horizons: Indigenous Collecting, Filming, Exhibiting (14 May 2025 - 16 May 2025)

The Music & Poetry of Queen Idia the Musical - A Work in Progress Sharing (6:00 - 7:45pm, 4 April 2025)

Art and Archaeology : a subversive collaboration (5:30 - 6:30pm, 20 March 2025)

‘Clothing is an armour we all wear’: Street fashion photography in Bhutan (2 - 3pm, 25 February 2025)

Friends Event: 'Nataraja - The lord of Dance' (2 - 3pm, 5 February 2025)

Lunar New Year Activities (10am - 12pm and 1 - 3pm, 1 February 2025)

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altar (30 October 2024 - 10 November 2024)

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Family Activities (10am-4pm, 31 October and 1 and 2 November 2024)

Friends Event: Von Hügel Lecture 2024: Re-Imagining the African Museum (5 - 6pm, 22 October 2024)

The Sensational Museum at MAA (four Saturdays in autumn 2024)

From Dig to Dish: Family Activities (2pm - 4pm, 31 July and 8, 14 and 22 August 2024)

Disability Friendly Opening (10am - 12pm and 2 - 4pm, 19 August 2024)

Friends Event: When do we take our shoes off in the museum? On learning and teaching collections care in the southern Himalayas (2 - 3pm, 26 June 2024)

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)

'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)