Fitzwilliam Museum Education Department

Half term events for children with SEND and their families...

Exciting events for children with SEND! 🌟

Join us for two sessions designed specifically for families with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Enjoy a relaxed and welcoming environment with tailored sensory friendly activities to ensure a fun and inclusive experience for everyone.

Disability Friendly Opening at the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge 🐋
🗓️ Date: Monday 28 October
⏰ Time: 10am - 12pm
📍 Location: Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ

Creative Club at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science🔭
🗓️ Date: Monday 28 October
⏰ Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm
📍 Location: Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH

Find out more and book your place: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/send-events-3671479?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

The Creative Club is back! Aimed at children with special educational needs and their families. Siblings welcome, come and make art together as a family with an artist at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Tickets are free but must be booked.

🎨 Creative Club is back! 🖌️

Join us at Cambridge University Botanic Garden on 24 July from 10am to 12pm to discover the collection of 8,000 plant species and create different artworks in response. These sessions are designed for children aged 8-14 with special educational needs and disabilities.

Find out more on our website and book your free place: https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/events/creative-club-botanic-garden

To hear more about our Creative Club and Families with SEND programme, you can sign up to our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/museums/whats-on-2023 📩

For young people looking get an opportunity and experience in ecology careers -

Are you looking to kickstart your career in conservation and based near Northants? 🦇🌳🛠💚

❓ We’ve got 5 voluntary reserves officer roles in Pitsford, Nene Wetlands and other Northamptonshire based sites.

✅You will gain experience in all aspects of habitat management for conservation, including practical, survey and office based skills. As well as gaining knowledge and experience from working with the skilled reserves team, you will also get opportunities to work with and lead volunteer groups, participate with in-house training and receive external training and assessment in chainsaw use, brushcutter use and First Aid.

✔️A Voluntary Reserve Officer role is suitable for someone looking to begin a career in practical wildlife conservation.

To find out further information and to apply head here 👇https://www.wildlifebcn.org/volunteering-opportunities/voluntary-reserve-officer-x5-based-pitsford-x1-nene-wetlands-x2-0

Join Cambridge University Press & Assessment at the UK Festival of Education, taking place on 4-5 July, where we will be inspiring educators towards a net-zero future! 🌎

As 's official sustainability partners, Cambridge will be sharing innovative ways to make sustainability and climate education engaging for students and teachers 🌱

Visit the 'Cambridge Sustainability Zone' and join a number of engaging sessions including:

- Thursday, 4 July, 10:30 – 11:15 – 'Building the knowledge and skills students need for a sustainable future' panel discussion

- Friday, 5 July, 10:30 – 11:15 – 'Working together to develop life skills for a greener living' panel discussion led by Jodie Bailey-Ho, Department of Education Youth Focal Point and Founder of Teach the Teacher

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/1lUV50Stw4r

😍Any schools looking for a printing press?

🌟*PRESS LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME* 🌟
This much loved lithography press, a Furnival & Co Ltd Reddish press has been with us for some time. We have now been gifted a motorised lithography press and so we are letting this one go.

We are open to reasonable donations for this wonderful piece of machinery. Collection only from CB9 7LF

Send us a message or call us if interested. Please share to any lithographers who may be interested in acquiring this machine! It’s in full working order 👌🏻

Not just any postgrad This time, it’s personal.

Muse enjoyed a close-up study of our guest painting by Botticelli ‘Venus and Mars’ on the start of its U.K. gallery tour.
What gorgeous studies and fascinating conversations thank you everyone at Muse

Young emerging artists opportunity

🌿 Calling all young artists! An exciting opportunity to showcase your talent at an art exhibition in East Anglia focusing on the theme of nature. Submit your work by May 1st for a chance to be featured. 🎨https://cam-arts.net/87051a6e

Disability Friendly opening 8th April 10-12

We look forward to welcoming you to the Fitzwilliam Museum for a relaxed morning aimed at children with sensory sensitivities along with their families, siblings & carers. During this time, the museum will be open exclusively for families with children with sensory sensitivities, so we can ensure a quieter environment. This event is aimed at children with special educational needs who usually find visiting museums overwhelming due to conditions that affect their sensory processing and/or have a developmental disability.

We will be opening up the Egyptian galleries for you to explore. There are very limited spaces to keep the museums from feeling too overwhelming. We will turn off any sounds & will control the lighting as best we can. We provide a chill out space with bottled water if your child needs a break. They can choose to take part in our sensory story and/or work with an animator.
Tickets are free and must be booked for everyone attending in your group. If you gave any questions please email Marie Kennedy, [email protected]
to book:

Disability friendly opening - Egyptians and an animator! Explore the Egyptian galleries and make with animator Charlotte Hill to add to our animated film!

Muse, our adult art group enjoyed looking at our display of recent acquisitions in the Sheba gallery and created their own art works using translucent layers in acetate, tissue and watercolours. Thank you everyone!

Helen’s cabinet of curiosities finished - thank you for this super inspiring drawing - if you’d like to create your own cabinet of curiosities why not get in touch - we’d love to help!

Helen has shown us her completed embroidery (shown below left) created as part of a real family workshop inspired by the artist samira Abbassy’s painting ‘reincarnated fears’. (Shown below right)

Coming soon... ✨

'Sensing Nature' is our next exhibition at Babylon Gallery, opening on Friday 1st March 2024! This exhibition celebrates work made with local communities who have creatively engaged with nature, in a multi-sensory exhibition celebrating local landscapes. It includes commissions from composer Tom Adams and artist Kaitlin Ferguson, as well as a variety of artworks from our recent Sensing Nature Open Call, curated by Basecoat Collective.

Thanks to National Lottery Players and The National Lottery Heritage Fund for making this special project possible.

Ely Museum RNIB National Trust Wicken Fen Nature Reserve Cam Sight Vision Norfolk

Book your place today! Join us and meet recruiting employers!

Fen Ditton Gallery's next Young emerging Artists and Art Collectors event Thursday 9 Nov 6-9pm
Fen Ditton Gallery Babylon Arts

Let's Talk Colour — Young Collectors Fen Ditton Gallery’s current exhibition is all about colour… the colour yellow to be precise! What’s exciting about the series of colour exhibitions, of which ‘Going Yellow’ is the third, is that it puts together artists who ordinarily wouldn’t be hung in the same room, and allows the im...

We loved meeting these fantastic young people last week. Lots of creativity & curiosity about the artworks here The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and at Kettle's Yard.