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🍄 Get ready for Fungi Field Day!

Explore the fascinating world of fungi with guided walks, games, crafts, face painting & hands-on activities. There’s plenty to discover for curious minds of all ages!

📅 Saturday 10 October from 10am and make a day of it.
👉 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rNOQ2O

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🍏 Join us for Apple Day 2026 🍎
Sunday 18 October 2026 10am – 4pm
🍏 Apple tasting & sales
🍎 Apple identification & growing advice
🍏 Craft activities
🍎 Free Garden highlight tours
🍏 Live entertainment
🍎 Pop-up food trucks
🍏 Local craft & produce stalls
Tickets available now: bit.ly/3TGHy4g

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✨What makes Cambridge Botanic Lights the perfect winter night out? ✨

We’ve highlight 10 reasons why this enchanting trail of light, sound and beautiful installations is one not to miss – and why you should book your tickets today!

🎟️Find out more and book tickets: https://bit.ly/4fsgv5o

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Our Photographic Collections team has achieved the remarkable target of digitalising 92% of the catalogued collections! This image was the 167,233rd photograph digitised to reach this figure. The next step is to add the images to our collections portal and digitalise 1,431 more photos to reach 93%.

Two men sit on small raised wooden platforms. A pyramid-like structure made from poles stands over each platform, from which hangs a small loom.
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Are you a Cambridge University student & interested in the work of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social?
We are seeking a student member of the Garden Syndicate, our governing body.
A fantastic opportunity to bring your perspective to the Garden & play a role in its future.
Find out more: bit.ly/4jrZHgL

A group of students walking in front of a Glasshouse Range
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✨ 10 weeks until Cambridge Botanic Lights!

From 27 November, explore the Garden in a different light as it transforms into a magical, illuminated trail. Bring your favourite people - groups of 6+ can save 10% on tickets with prices as low as £13.50✨

Tickets on sale: https://bit.ly/4fsgv5o

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🐳Did you know the Museum has been on the same site in Cambridge since 1865? Named the 'New Museums' site, it was home to a botanic garden until 1846. Many of the early specimens can still be seen, including our fin whale, owned by the Museum since 1866. Entry FREE 🙂 University of Cambridge Museums

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Have you seen our 'Moving Objects' exhibition?   There's still time to join us as we share stories about objects we transported across Cambridge as part of our Stores Move project, from the people who have worked with them. These are things that moved us. We invite you to be moved by them too.

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📸 Got a favourite Garden photo or fancy capturing something new?

There’s still time to enter our free ‘Whatever the Weather’ photography competition. Show the Garden through the seasons – from sunshine and showers to autumn colour and frost.

🌿 Enter by 31 October
https://bit.ly/3PAfEFe

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🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We're looking to appoint a part-time Archivist (fixed-term) to help make our archival material more accessible. These documents are key to research on art and archaeology, Indigenous cultures, and artefact provenances.

Closing date: 02/10/2026
Apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/archivi...

A shelf of old books in the museum's archive. They are numbered 9 to 17 and labels on two of the show they cover the period 29 January 1908 to 31 July 1908 and 1 August 1908 to 6 February 1909.
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🚨 Job alert!

MAA and @cam-archaeology.bsky.social are looking to appoint a full-time Research Associate and Exhibition Project Curator (Fixed Term) for the 'Between the Lines: Mapping histories in the margins' project exhibition.

Closing date: 04/10/2026
Apply now: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

A bearded man wearing a turban and a knee-length robe or tunic stands with two camels behind him. The ground appears arid and there is a mountainous landscape in the background.
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📢Don't miss these events coming up at the Museum!📢

🐧 Pride in Nature Tour: Sun 27 Sept (All welcome)
🐳From Darwin to Dodos Gallery Tour: Fri 2 Oct (All welcome)
🦁Animal Tails: Fossil Fun: Fri 2 Oct, 10.30 & 11.30am (Ages 2 -5)
All FREE - https://ow.ly/cOzx50ZNmhp
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Since joining the team in 2013, Marie has introduced a number of programmes across our eight Museums & Botanic Garden focused on welcoming young people and families with children with SEND, including: 🔕 Disability Friendly Openings for Families 🎨 Arts Pioneers & 🛍️ Art at Home packs.

Four children, one wearing headphones with parents/ carers, in the Museum of Zoology gallery, filled with animal skeletons.
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The lovely pond in our Tropical Forests house has had a makeover! 💦

The plants around it have been replanted to make it less compact & the Grammatophyllum speciosum orchid has a new home next to the pond, rather than above it 🌱

Come in and see its fresh, new look!

#MondayMood #GlasshouseRange

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We're hiring! Join our team as Impact Evaluation Lead. Are you passionate about the potential of collections, culture and research to create meaningful change? This new role will support a shared approach to evaluating the social and economic impact of participation with our collections. (1/2)

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