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New Museums Site and Kings College lawn, New Museums site, Bene't Street, CB2 3PT
Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family! From Amazing Animals to Romani storytelling, from bubble science to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity and imagination.
Here's what to expect across the site during the weekend:
Medicine makers: Come see what science can do
Toxicology (temporary) tattoo parlour
What Would Nature Do? An Imaginarium Takeover At King’s
On the same (brain) wavelength: Neural synchronisation during social interactions
Bridging lived experience and scientific inquiry: A personal journey through OCD research
Breaking bad and building good: the science of habits
Sustain/Education presents: The Sustainability Quest
Recording data in yarn and thread
From poisons to medicines: Get hands-on with the Department of Pharmacology
Calling all super sleuths: Can you use science to discover the mystery of the whodunnit?
Tidy that room right now! How to tame our clutter chaos
Supporting your Mental Health- it's not all in the Mind
Cambridge Museum of Technology pop-up activity
SunSpaceArt ‘drop-in’ activities at the family weekend
See how technology utilises electricity & magnetism
The Meta Lab: Accelerating learning with AI and VR
Researching cancer in Cambridge
Understanding health inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic
Big World, Big Questions: Is there space for faith in a scientific world?
KAPLA Workshop & laptop games!
The nomadic storyteller from the North
"Seeing is Believing? The Secrets of Visual Illusions Unveiled"
Family arts, crafts and puzzles
Tuberculosis: A Fishy Tale about a Deadly Disease
The Ugly Animal Preservation Society - Weird Life Underwater
What does an Artist in Residence in a University of Cambridge Science department do?
The canoe race: the art and science of creation myths
Newborn language and communication signals
Can you blow up the Sun, and other dastardly space questions
Digging up the Past: The Archaeology of Must Farm
East Anglian Air Ambulance experience
FoodPark Cambridge will be onsite with some delicious food options.
Getting here
The New Museums Site is located on Pembroke Street, Bene't Street and Free School Lane. There is no parking onsite but plenty of cycle storage. The site is a 5-10 minute walk from various bus stops which serve the city and beyond. Accessibility information can be found here.
