Join us for Making Marks, a day celebrating pioneering women in science, with a special focus on physicist, inventor and suffrage campaigner Hertha Ayrton. ⚡️🎵 Saturday 12 September 2026, 10am–5pm

Ever fancied sketching among telescopes, globes, and historic scientific instruments? Join us for our second Whipple Scribble of the year – a relaxed evening of creativity in the museum. Tuesday 28 July, 17:00-19:30. Grab your free ticket: whipplescribble.eventbrite.co.uk Image by John Tordoff.

Come and join our team at the Whipple Museum! ⭐️ Visitor Experience Assistants (Temporary) We’re looking for two enthusiastic Visitor Experience Assistants to welcome and support our visitors on Saturdays, with the possibility of additional weekday shifts. Find out more and apply via our website.

Join us this Monday for our free Whipple Highlights Tour ✨ What exactly is an orrery? Why does our clock chime 13? And why would anyone collect plaster horses’ teeth, green spectacles, or hundreds of pocket calculators? 👀 🐴 🔭 🌍 🕝 Monday 18 May, 2.30-3pm 🎟️ Book your free tickets via our website

Fascinating visit to @whipplemuseum.bsky.social 🔬 @camunivmuseums.bsky.social 🏛 for their excellent exhibition 'The Art of Deception' 😊 Generally #museum are not that keen on showing off the 'fakes' in their collection 🤔 Robert Whipple did seem to buy alot thou 🤷‍♂️ #science #heritage #forgery

Wonderful days in Cambridge with Visualizing the Unknown @huygensknaw.bsky.social and Visualizing Science @bhmpi.bsky.social teams to explore collections and exchange with scholars working on Visual Culture and Natural History. @Fitzwilliammuseum @hpscambridge.bsky.social @whipplemuseum.bsky.social

🚨 Museum Closure 🚨 The Whipple Museum will be closed to visitors from 13–15 May 2026 due to University-wide industrial action over pay. Further strike action is planned for 20–22 May and 26–29 May. We will be open as usual on Saturday 16 May, 10.00am–4.00pm.

Easter Opening Hours 2026 ⭐ Open on Good Friday 3 April: 12:30–16:30 Closed: Saturday 4 April – Monday 6 April

We're hiring! 📢 Join our team as Inclusion Assistant. Help us to ensure as many people as possible can access, enjoy & benefit from our Museums & Garden. This role provides crucial support to plan, deliver & evaluate our work. Find out more & apply: museums.cam.ac.uk/opportunities 🗓 21 April

Fabulous photos from yesterday’s #IWD lecture for Cambridge Uni #HPS at the @whipplemuseum.bsky.social … I love the maths on the blackboards behind me, but who knew I gesticulate so much when I talk!!

Access Update The Museum’s lift has served us well for over fifteen years and is now due for replacement. From February–April 26, the lift will be out of service while these essential works are carried out. We apologise for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding during this period.

Can you make a fake? 🕵️‍♂️ 🔍 Looking for a half-term activity? Put your detective skills to the test in our new exhibition The Art of Deception, all about the curious world of fake scientific instruments. 📅 Monday 16 February ⏰ 1–4pm (drop-in) 📍 Meet in the Learning Gallery

Join us this Saturday and be among the first to explore our new exhibition, The Art of Deception. ✨🔎 The Art of Deception reveals the hidden world of forged scientific instruments, showing how fake artefacts have fooled collectors and experts from the Middle Ages to today.

Out to the Whipple Library @whipplemuseum.bsky.social as part of Open Cambridge for '500 years of science in print' 📚 Thank you to Jack & Liz from the #Library for showing, explaining & allowing us to touch (only some) some of the libraries absolute treasure 📜 #science #archive #printing #knowledge

Whipple Scribble this Thursday! Sketch or just unwind with a friend at our after-hours drawing session. ✏️ Thu 18 Sept, 5:30–7:30pm 📍 Kick off with a optional intro tour at 5:30pm 🎟 Free, booking essential. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whipple-sc...

✨ 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.

✏️ After-hours sketching at the Whipple Museum Thu 18 Sept, 5:30–7:30pm Sketch among telescopes, globes & centuries-old instruments in Cambridge’s history of science museum. Free, all welcome! Optional 20-min intro tour at 5:30pm! ✨ Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whipple-sc...

🔍 Whipple Highlights Tour Wed 13 Aug, 1pm and Thur 21 Aug, 3:30pm What is an orrery? Why does the clock chime 13? And what’s with the green specs and horses’ teeth? Explore the Whipple in 10 objects! Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whipple-hi...

We’re open tomorrow—here’s what’s on! ⭐️ 🌈 Bridging Binaries Tour: LGBTQ+ History of Science 🕜 1:30pm | 🎟 Free (book via website) 🔬 Curator’s Talk: Physics & Glass 🕝 2:30pm | 🎟 Free, no booking needed – just meet us at the front desk

🔍 Whipple Highlights Tour 📅 Sat 16 Aug, 10:30am, Free What is an orrery? Why does the clock chime 13? And what’s with the green specs and horses’ teeth? Explore the Whipple in 10 objects—curious artefacts, big scientific ideas, and famous Cambridge connections. www.eventbrite.com/e/whipple-hi...

Whipple Highlights Tour

This free tour showcases a selection of must-see museum objects – your perfect introduction to the Whipple.

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H is for the History of Science – no better place than Cambridge if you have a passion for HoS. Whipple Museum, Hawking, Newton (we’ll get to that)… #HistoryOfScience #WhippleMuseum @whipplemuseum.bsky.social

We’re open this Saturday – and there’s something new to see! 👀 Explore Human Body in the Learning Gallery: from electric nerve zappers to vitamin C syrup jars, an ivory eye, and a full papier-mâché person! 🧠⚡️ 📍 Free School Lane, Cambridge 10am - 4pm 🎟 Free entry!

✨ Physics & Glass ✨ Now on at the Whipple Museum, Physics & Glass is a tribute to the art of the scientific glassblower. Glass has been one of the most important materials in the history of physics, and this display highlights some of the most intricate pieces in the Whipple’s collection.

After-hours sketching at the Whipple Museum Thursday 8 May, 5.30-7.30pm Free! Ever fancied sketching among telescopes, globes, and ancient scientific instruments? Step into Cambridge University's home for the history of science for a relaxed, creative evening. www.eventbrite.com/e/whipple-sc...

Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Museum Tour, this Wednesday! ⭐️📣 We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tours at the Whipple Museum. 📍 Every Wednesday, 2.30pm. Tours are aimed at an adult audience. Book your FREE tickets our website.

This Saturday get hands-on with creative activities that will help shape our new Learning Gallery installation—join us for Lightworks! 🎨🔭 🎨 Lightworks Workshop: Exploring Light, Colour & Lenses 🔎 Led by artist James Tunnard 📅 15 March ⏰ Drop in between 10–12pm & 1–3pm 💫 Free 📸 My Linh Le for UCM

📖What kinds of scientific instruments were used around the turn of the nineteenth century in Greece, then a province of the Ottoman Empire? Artemis Yagou (Deutsches Museum) outlines the uses of scientific instruments and the associated emerging practices and mentalities in Greece.

Scientific Instruments in the Greek Enlightenment

In diesem Beitrag skizziert Artemis Yagou die Verwendung wissenschaftlicher Instrumente und die damit verbundenen neuen Praktiken und Mentalitäten in Griechenland um die Wende zum 19. Jahrhundert.

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What’s On at the Whipple Museum this February Half Term? 🖼 🔦 🌟 We’re taking part in #TwilightAtTheMuseums with Cambridge University Museums! Grab your torch and explore our collections after dark with our space-themed family trail, Space Explorers. 🔭🪐☄️ Wednesday 19 Feb, 5-7pm. Free, drop-in.

Just realised that our amazing Whipple Museum of History of Science is on Bluesky. Follow @whipplemuseum.bsky.social for more #HistSci, #HistMed, #SciArt, broken scientific instruments in Cambridge, and more! 📜 🗃️

📣🌟 Exhibition Talk 📣 🌟 The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age. Meet the remarkable scientific community behind the Cavendish Laboratory’s astonishing physics in this talk with Whipple Museum curator Dr Hannah Price. Free, no need to book. Saturday, 15 February, 2025 - 2pm