University of Cambridge Museums

A picture of two Sedgwick Museum staff members looking at a book from the Archive. Across the picture are the words ‘We’re hiring’.

A page of text that reads: Archive Assistant Interested in developing your career in archives management? This new role provides an exciting opportunity to work alongside the Museum Archivist, and contribute to the development and promotion of the Museum's archive as an international focus for collections research. Hours: Full time, Fixed term (4 years) Salary: £27,319-£31,236 Closing date: 12th October 2025

Interested in developing your career in archives management? 

Keen to contribute to delivering a high quality service to archive users, and a great communicator?

This role could be for you.

Further information:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/archive...

Made in Ancient Egypt Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

🏺 The doors are open! Step into 'Made in Ancient Egypt' from today.

The Fitzwilliam Museum's latest exhibition reveals the stories of ancient Egyptian makers and craftspeople through the objects they created.

🔗 Find out more & book your tickets: bit.ly/4cCiznX

📸 Image: Vecteezy

An older woman with her arms outstretched in a room full of other dancers.

✨ Museum Boost: Dance for Older People ✨
Are you, or is someone you know, looking to bounce back, stay active & have fun? Join our monthly dance sessions with @camcitco.bsky.social, inspired by stories from our Museums & Botanic Garden.
Find out more: museums.cam.ac.uk/events/museum-boost

A wooden table filled with historic books and documents alongside explanatory labels at the Sedgwick Museum archive.

A corner of the Kettle's Yard house with a wooden chair and table, on top of which is a statue of a dancing figure.

🟡 Archive Assistant
@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social

🟡 Learning Host (Part Time) [Fixed Term]
@kettlesyard.bsky.social
📸 Jasper Fry

Find out more & keep up to date with new opportunities: museums.cam.ac.uk/opportunities (3/3)

🟡 Artist Brief: Winter Wildlife 2025 @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

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Trees with autumn foliage around the lake at the Botanic Garden.

Looking for a new challenge? 🍂 We are hiring! Take a look at the range of #MuseumJobs currently on offer across our Museums and Garden:

🟡 Interpretation and Learning Coordinator (Maternity Cover)
🟡 Team Leader - Garden Landscapes
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

📸 Howard Rice (1/3)

Nick Bailey and Beverley Glover standing together, both smiling, outside the CUBG Glasshouse Range

CUBG Director, Beverley Glover, seen through a TV camera lens, looking at a jar of red cabbage

A cameraman getting a close-up of CUBG Director Beverley Glover examining a red flower while filming for an episode of Gardeners' World in the CUBG Glasshouse Range

🎥Watch CUBG Director @beverleycubg.bsky.social talk to presenter Nick Bailey on Gardeners’ World this Fri 3 Oct at 8pm on BBC2. Nick & the crew visited the Garden this summer to film a piece on how flowers make colour & use it to attract pollinators.🌸🐝http://bit.ly/4838O1P
@camplantsci.bsky.social

What's in the box?

We were delighted to welcome researchers Patricia Hardwick and Jocelyn Ng from Sunway University to the Centre for Material Culture to explore and photograph a remarkable collection of shadow puppets!

Fragments of a plate with moulded alphabet on the rim and the manual British Sign Language alphabet round the centre. In the centre of the plate is a scene featuring five dolls seated in a circle with an open book between them.

This plate depicting the BSL alphabet dates from a time when sign language wasn't taught in schools and shows the importance of the Deaf community being able to express themselves.
#InternationalSignLanguageDay 

📸 MN0221.16 Plate, Cambridge, c1913-25
🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/575227

🦋We're working with the Wildlife Trust to understand how to improve the habitat for butterflies & other insects - by creating some giant letter 'E's from soil.... see more below!🦋

Presenters of ITV Anglia news, David Whiteley and Becky Jago, posing in a garden.

A pale pink and white dahlia with other types of dahlia and green foliage in the background.

Three vibrant pink dahlias in bloom.

Dark red dahlias with purple dahlias in the foreground.

It’s a beautiful day in the Garden! 🌺 Our dahlias are glowing - photos don’t do them justice, come see for yourself!

We were on @itvanglia.bsky.social - watch it here: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/live-from-the-garden-itv-anglia-climate-change-special/

#CUBG
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social

Artist opportunity! 📢🎨❄️

Work with @zoologymuseum.bsky.social and local schools on the Winter Wildlife festival this November.

We're delighted to support this project through Arts Council England funding.

Find out more and submit a proposal 👇

🏳️‍🌈Our Pride in Nature tours are back this October! 🏳️‍🌈Book onto one of these FREE tours to discover how queer perspectives help us to better understand the natural world. These tours are run by our expert volunteers. All welcome. ow.ly/AzRw50WY0jp @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

🐝We’re buzzing that Secrets of Bees has won The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction - the world’s top award for nature & conservation writing! Created with expert input from the Garden this children's book from @nosycrow.bsky.social brings the fascinating world of bees to life. [1/2]

🌿 Apple Day is back at the Garden — Sunday 19 October, 10am–5pm!
🍎 Join us for apple tasting, food trucks, live music, crafts, tours & more.
🍏 A perfect autumn day out with friends, family or neighbours
🍎 Tickets on sale soon via our website.

#CUBG #AppleDay #CambridgeEvents

✨ 1618 Day, Saturday 20 Sept, 10–4pm ✨

Step back into the 17th century and discover the stories of our beautiful Jacobean building (once Cambridge’s Free School). Explore historic instruments, uncover hidden corners of the museum, and enjoy family activities, curator talks, and special tours.

Photo of a leaf insect in the Museum's upper gallery

Leaf or a leaf insect? 😉Stick & leaf insects mimic twigs & leaves to avoid predators. Even their eggs are camouflaged to look like seeds. There are about 3000 known species & they are largely nocturnal herbivores. On display in our upper gallery. FREE entry! @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

Promotional poster for Fungi Field Day event on Saturday, 4 October from 10am to 4pm. Features illustrations of various types of mushrooms.

🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here!
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm

Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!

We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿

#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents

A conservator shines a light from her phone onto the surface of an object.

A couple stand in front of an interactive display with a replica pot and small screen. One of them holds a pair of headphones to his ear.

Join Dr Sarah-Jane Harknett and Dr Ayesha Fuentes as they share their recent research in impact evaluation and guidance for handling hazards in museum collections.

🗓️ 08/10/2025, 2pm
🎟️ Free
🌐 Online

Visit our website to find out more:
maa.cam.ac.uk/maa-access-and-engagement-power-hour

🍁Come and explore, unwind & be inspired by the changing seasons in the Garden. We have an exciting line up of events & activities to enjoy this Autumn. Full event details on our website: bit.ly/4n3mJty

Terra Nova: Captain Scott’s polar ship filmed on the sea floor The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.

Check out this BBC article for a few quotes from SPRI staff alongside exciting footage of the Terra Nova shipwreck.

🌿 We’re hiring a Team Leader for our Garden Landscapes team!
Lead a skilled crew, care for our plant collections, and support research, learning & conservation at a world-class botanic garden.
📆 Apply by 12 Oct
🔗 https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/team-leader-garden-landscapes/

#CUBG #horticulture #job

A family of two parents and three children look in a display case at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

If you attended one of our events, we’d love to hear what you thought!

Fill in our quick five minute survey and you could win a £50 Love2Shop voucher: bit.ly/4p4CXUF

Keep in touch and hear what's on throughout the year by signing up to our monthly newsletter: mailchi.mp/museums/whats-on-2023

An illustration with text in the centre reading Summer at the Museums, What will you discover this summer? Surrounded by museum drawings, including a sun, crayons, butterfly, magnifying glass, telescope and dinosaur.

Families take part in craft activities at the Polar Museum lecture theatre. A staff member with blonde hair and a lanyard smiles at visitors.

A woman dressed at Mary Anning in a bonnet with red ribbon presents a fossils to two surprised looking young women sat a table at the Sedgwick Museum.

A group of five children and an older man gather round a table of dinosaur bones at the Sedgwick Museum.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this
#SummerAtTheMuseums! Here are a few snapshots from the holidays.

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Have a great term ahead and see you soon! 👋

Images: Seb & Charlie Design, My Linh Le & @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social.

Don't miss out - many of these roles close for applications this weekend!

Find out more and see upcoming opportunities on our website: museums.cam.ac.uk/opportunities (3/3)

A man wearing glasses sits opposite from a young girl, both looking at shards of pottery laid out on a table.

With the Fitzwilliam Museum:
Communications Assistant
Membership & Individual Giving Coordinator

With @maacambridge.bsky.social:
Senior Teaching & Collections Assistant

With @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social:
Learning & Engagement Assistant
Visitor Services Assistant

📸 My Linh Le (2/3)

The Botanic Garden in autumn sunlight lighting up the trees and lake.

As we move into a new season, there are an exciting array of #MuseumJobs on offer across our Museums & Garden:

With @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social:
Family Learning Coordinator
Interpretation & Learning Coordinator
Team Leader - Garden Landscapes
Research Grants Facilitator

📸 Howard Rice (1/3)

Bound Together: Nigerian Leather and Luxury Fashion - Collections Connections Communities Dr Eva Namusoke, Senior Curator, African Collections Futures In Bound Together, Nigerian leather is the star, worked and remade by people on two continents, Africa and Europe, that were connected by e...

🚨Blog edition from the Bound Together exhibition!
Want to know more of about the leather handbag from British-Nigerian luxury leather brand, Zashadu, Lagos?

Read the blog by the curator of the exhibition @enamusoke.bsky.social
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
#AFRICA
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/bound-t...

Job Opportunities - Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Join our Learning Team! We have two roles:
Family Learning Coordinator: Create nature experiences for families
Interpretation & Learning Coordinator: Share stories of our plant collections & lead adult learning programmes
Apply at: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/job-opportunities/