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Cambridge Wildlife Safari Trail
Go on safari in Cambridge’s green spaces to discover the plants and animals that live in these city centre wildlife havens. Follow the map and clues below to discover the wildlife of central Cambridge. Our Wildlife Safari Trail can be followed on a smartphone here, downloaded to your own device, or printed at home before your journey: Use the Cambridge Wildlife Safari map and the clues below to find … Continue reading Cambridge Wildlife Safari Trail
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Animal Adventurers: the game
The natural world is full of stories to discover. Use the Museum of Zoology collection to explore habitats, complete puzzles and build a team of the animals you meet along the way. Before you begin: Grab a pencil and piece of paper so that you can record your favourite stories or animals while you play. Draw a picture of your ultimate animal team to share … Continue reading Animal Adventurers: the game
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Cambridge Urban Safari Trail
Go on safari in Cambridge’s urban jungle and search for animals of land and sea in the buildings. Follow the map and clues below to discover animals in the architecture of the city’s buildings. Our Urban Safari Trail can be followed on a smartphone here, downloaded to your own device, or printed at home before your expedition: Use the Cambridge Safari map and the clues … Continue reading Cambridge Urban Safari Trail
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Community Gallery
We’re noticing the wildlife around our homes, gardens and during our daily exercise more and more. As the seasons change there are many opportunities to see the creatures that live around us. This page is for our community and that includes you! We’ll be featuring your wildlife sightings, Crafty Creature makes and creations. Check back later for updates and see below for how you can … Continue reading Community Gallery
Winter Wildlife in the City
Join us for our celebration of urban wildlife in the colder months. We will be online on Wednesday November 29th from 7-8pm exploring the nature in and around the Museum and our curator of birds, Prof Daniel Field, will be answering your questions about our feathered friends. Then on Saturday December 2nd you can join us in person in the Museum for poetry workshops, hands … Continue reading Winter Wildlife in the City
Tangled Planet
An exhibition by Cambridge Future Museum Voices Explore the Tangled Planet temporary exhibition at the Museum of Zoology with extended information and images. This exhibition was co-curated with a group of Year 12 students from schools and colleges across the UK. The title, content and text all came from them, created during a week-long residential at Clare College and the Museum of Zoology in April … Continue reading Tangled Planet
Zoology Live! Goes Urban
It’s that time of year again: time for our Zoology Live! festival. For Zoology Live! 2023 we are exploring the wildlife in our towns and cities. Zoology Live! Online Thursday 29th June 2023, 7pm-8pm Join us live on our YouTube channel as we take a deep dive into the wildlife of the city of Cambridge, jump across the world to find out about urban wildlife … Continue reading Zoology Live! Goes Urban
Helping Nature Help Us
For Earth Day 2023, the Museum of Zoology worked with schools and families to create displays all about what nature does for us and what we can do for nature. Read on to see these wonderful creations, and for top tips on helping nature and letting nature help you. Helping Nature Help Us with The Grove Primary, Nelson Academy and Lionel Walden Primary School Beginning … Continue reading Helping Nature Help Us
Create an ocean creature puppet
Create your own ocean creature that can move, swim, act and even dance… if you wanted it to. This page will show you how to make a puppet for all your underwater plays. Watch our Young Zoologists Puppet show for ideas: You will need: If you have a printer, print and use our activity sheet to make your crafting easier: Top tip: use a sharp … Continue reading Create an ocean creature puppet
Quick Tips for ‘quitting’ Fast Fashion
It’s been very easy to get into the habitat of unthinkingly buying new clothes when there’s low costs and prices are low. However due to the high cost to the environment, it’s time we reimagined our relationship with fashion, starting at home. Here are some simple, quick ways to get more wear out of clothes, clean them responsibly and what to look for if buying … Continue reading Quick Tips for ‘quitting’ Fast Fashion
Winter Wildlife 2022: Christmas Corals and Santa Claws
Join us for our Winter Wildlife celebrations online and in the Museum as we explore creatures from under the sea, find a new Santa Claws, and discover how to have a more sustainable festive season. Winter Wildlife Livestream: Thursday 8 December, 7-8pm Join us on our YouTube channel as we broadcast LIVE from the galleries of the Museum of Zoology. Uncover life under the sea, … Continue reading Winter Wildlife 2022: Christmas Corals and Santa Claws
Tips to make your washing routine more sustainable
Oil-based fibres are used to produce synthetic fabrics such as nylon or polyester. However, manufacturing, washing and drying these manmade materials makes them shed pieces called microfibres. Microfibres are fragments of fibres smaller than 5 mm that can break down into even smaller nano-sized particles. Too small to be caught by our current wastewater management systems, they end up entering ecosystems, creating negative impacts for wildlife, … Continue reading Tips to make your washing routine more sustainable
A Children’s Anthology of Insect Recipes
Have you ever eaten a worm? Maybe a locust? Many insects provide more protein per bite than the types of meat and fish that we usually eat. They also take up far less resources to farm, with less land, water, feed, transport and labour going into their production, giving insect protein a much smaller carbon footprint than farming livestock. Caterpillars for dinner? The caterpillar of … Continue reading A Children’s Anthology of Insect Recipes
Create your own Scientist’s Notebook
Find animals in the Museum or in an outside green space and draw or write about what you see. Scientists do this when they explore the natural world. Scientist’s Notebook activity sheet Download our Scientist’s Notebook activity sheet and use the notebook template on there to help you explore the natural world Your Notebooks These Scientist Notebooks were created in the Museum of Zoology on … Continue reading Create your own Scientist’s Notebook
Are you Tomorrow’s Ecologist?
Are you aged between 13-16 and want to develop your knowledge of biodiversity and nature? The Museum of Zoology is running a FREE two-day event in the summer holidays aimed at getting you more involved with nature and building biology-based skills! Attendees will also get the opportunity to design their own project and gain a CREST award to put on university applications. On the 18th … Continue reading Are you Tomorrow’s Ecologist?
Portals to the World: Butterflies Through Time
Explore our Butterflies Through Time exhibition with dementia friendly resources. These resources have been created in partnership with Dementia Compass, for adults with dementia and their care partners in mind. While they were initially created for participants of our Portals to the World course, we hope that they may be used by you at home and in the Museum too. Printable exhibition guide: This guide has … Continue reading Portals to the World: Butterflies Through Time
Zoology Live! 2022: Supporting Wildlife Today
In the Zoology Live! livestream on June 22 we explored how we monitor wildlife today, with Dr Julia Mackenzie from Anglia Ruskin University showing how she monitors the nesting birds in Cambridge University Botanic Garden, and Professor Ed Turner of the Museum of Zoology sharing his research into arthropod biodiversity in Southeast Asia: You too can get involved with monitoring wildlife. Get a taste at … Continue reading Zoology Live! 2022: Supporting Wildlife Today
Zoology Live! 2022 Making Collections
In the Zoology Live! livestream on June 21 we explore museum collections, what they can tell us about animals of the past and how this helps us to understand animals today: The collections at the Museum are of vital importance to our understanding of biodiversity, but we would not go out and collect in the way naturalists did over 100 years ago. Making a collection … Continue reading Zoology Live! 2022 Making Collections
Researcher’s Stories Series Uploads
Over the past 6 weeks we’ve heard a variety of talks from researchers working in butterfly conservation. Our Researcher’s Stories series ran every Wednesday starting from May 4th and wrapping up last week on the 8th June. The series aimed to showcase the research at the forefront of conservation, as well as giving our audience the opportunity to ask researchers their own questions. In case … Continue reading Researcher’s Stories Series Uploads
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