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Researcher with a box of insect specimens

Cambridge and Oxford join forces to unlock over a million biological records for climate research

15 Jul 2026

The University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford will lead a major new partnership to digitise over 1.1 million natural history specimens...

The Fitzwilliam Museum shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026

20 Apr 2026

The news comes as the Fitzwilliam celebrates record-breaking visitor numbers with 2025 becoming the second-highest attendance on record (493,612)...

ʻAhuʻula (feathered cape) from Hawaii, MAA, 1947.403. Photo ©Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections

08 Dec 2024

'Fault Lines', a new exhibition at MAA, offers an intimate exploration of Pacific cultures guided by Indigenous curators and contemporary artists from...

Ancient Egypt gallery at The Fitzwilliam Museum. Photo: The Fitzwillliam Museum / David Valinsky Photography

Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections

03 Dec 2024

The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa...

Rhododendron brookianum type specimen from the University of Cambridge Herbarium

Collections-based research and innovation receives vital investment from Research England

09 Apr 2024

Research England has supported nine of the University’s museums and collections with £3m a year of Higher Education Museums, Galleries and Collections...

Visitors are welcomed to Cambridge's Zoology Museum beneath its fin whale skeleton

University collections and regional partners secure major AHRC funding to boost PhD research with strong community focus

18 May 2023

The University of Cambridge collections, together with Colchester + Ipswich Museums, Norfolk Museums Service and Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery...

Heritage science investment to unveil secrets of Cambridge University collections

07 Jan 2021

The University of Cambridge has been awarded £3m from the AHRC's Capability for Collections Fund to invest in equipment and refurbishment that will...

Unexpected experiences: George Doji reflects on putting museum storytelling into the digital world

20 Aug 2020

George Doji, host of Museum Remix at the University of Cambridge Museums, describes the digital experiment in museum storytelling that began when the...

Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde

10 May 2019

New exhibition puts the University's collections of two leading figures in Modern British Art into context for the first time.

New Year honours 2019

28 Dec 2018

Members of collegiate Cambridge recognised for outstanding contributions to society in science, education, engineering and art

museums

Cambridge and Oxford join forces to unlock over a million biological records for climate research

The Fitzwilliam Museum shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026

Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections

Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections

Collections-based research and innovation receives vital investment from Research England

University collections and regional partners secure major AHRC funding to boost PhD research with strong community focus

Heritage science investment to unveil secrets of Cambridge University collections

Unexpected experiences: George Doji reflects on putting museum storytelling into the digital world

Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde

New Year honours 2019

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