Events

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

Welcome to Fragile Harmony - a temporary exhibition curated by Year 12 students from across the UK. This exhibition is the result of a week long residential at Clare College, where the students came together to explore both nature at the Museum of Zoology and art at Kettle's Yard.

Uncover stories of wildlife that may be living around us with stories and play. Hear about hungry hedgehogs and squabbling squirrels, and make your own hibernating hedgehog to take home with you.  

FREE guided tour of the Museum. Join our expert guide as we uncover fascinating facts about the Museum, from our fin whale to the dodo and the beetles collected by Charles Darwin. 

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

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

Join us as we step back in time to see the changing climate of East Anglia over the years, in fact, over the millenia. That’s right, we are going back into the Pleistocene, sometimes referred to as the Ice Age.

We will be celebrating all winter wildlife at this family event, with crafts, real specimens to handle and a host of other wintry fun! All FREE. Everyone welcome, all ages. No need to book, just pop in. 

'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?

Go to the ends of the Earth and discover the wildlife of the Arctic and Antarctic. Find animals of the cold in the Museum, hear stories of penguins and polar bears, and make a pop up penguin card to take home with you.