How babies see the world around them, the wizardry behind Microsoft’s Kinect and the chance to examine the entrails of a fruit fly are just three of this year’s offerings from the UK’s largest free science festival – held by Cambridge University.

The Fitzwilliam Museum this week launched an ambitious fundraising challenge to bring about a life-changing new project with children in Soham and the surrounding communities.
 

A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.

The artistic legacy of one of the world's greatest literary epics is the subject of a new exhibition at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum.

Hidden treasures are waiting to be discovered in Cambridge’s museums this summer with the help of a free ‘passport’ for children.

For one day only, on Saturday, July 24, the lawns of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum will take on a festival atmosphere to celebrate Chinese culture.

A major exhibition of new sea paintings by one of Britain’s most distinguished contemporary artists – Maggi Hambling – will open at The Fitzwilliam Museum next week

Time is running out to see the celebrated Beijing painter Chen Hong at work in Cambridge, following his month-long residency at the city's Fitzwilliam Museum.

The celebrated Sculpture Promenade is returning to the grounds of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum for a second year from March 23.

Lion dancing and Chinese music provided a spectacular opening to the East of England’s Stories of the World programme at the Fitzwilliam Museum on Thursday evening.