Events

Starting on International Women's Day, Saturday 8th March 2025 - discover the research projects of twenty women scientists in zoology. Labels throughout the Museum will introduce you to the women working in science today and explain the amazing research work that they are undertaking in the Department of Zoology. 

Have you ever wanted to chat with an animal? Now you can chat with 13 of our specimens with our AI experiment.

Discover life under the sea with stories and play. The Museum of Zoology is the ‘plaice’ learn about fishes and their friends.

This event is suitable for ages 2-5. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Only children need tickets. Adults and children under 1 do not need a ticket to attend.

Why is there a fin whale skeleton in Cambridge? What can we learn from our Dodo skeleton? What did Darwin collect here and on the Voyage of the Beagle, and what can these collections tell us about him and is ideas on evolution? Hear these stories and more on an expert guided tour around the Museum of Zoology.

FREE

'Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’

From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?

'Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’

From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?

'Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’

From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?

Come along to the Museum for a day of crafts and specimen handling in celebration of World Lizard Day! Handle a turtle shell, lizard & crocodile skulls and then create your own reptile with our craft activity in the Museum's Discovery Room (where you can also see all our collection of over 200 taxidermy British Birds!)

Get ready to roar like a lion and move like a giraffe as we go on safari around the Museum of Zoology, then hear stories and make a finger puppet to take home with you.