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Happy New Year from all of us at University of Cambridge Museums! 🎉 We hope you had a restful break. Our Museums & Cam Botanic Garden are open with usual hours from this week. The Polar Museum Scott Polar Research Institute & Museum of Classical Archaeology reopen on Tuesday 7 & @whipplemuseum on Thursday 9 January.

📸 Sophus Tromholt, Picture Collection, University of Bergen Library, Norway Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis: Sophus Tromholt Refound is on at The Polar Museum Scott Polar Research Institute until 22 February 2025.

Fancy blowing away those January blues with a jigsaw puzzle🧩? Look no further than the Polar Museum Shop! We have both poles covered!🐻‍❄️🌐🐧

Mark your calendars! The Friends of SPRI are hosting a talk at the Scott Polar Research Institute on 18 February, A lecture with Nick Cox: 'Surviving Antarctic Winters.' Reserve your place here: eventbrite.com/e/a-lecture-wi… @FoSPRI #cambridge

"Particularly because they're black & white, we're not dizzied by the amazing colours; you can actually see the shape and the contours." Click below to watch the full interview with Christine Finn, Guest Curator. 'Under the Rays' runs until Feb 22. youtu.be/-__8Y05XD7o?si…

This month Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is hiring for three exciting #MuseumJobs: 🔹Front of House Assistant (PT) 🔹Senior Education & Outreach Assistant Closes 30 January 🔹Studio & Digitisation Assistant - Photographic Collections (PT) Closes 4 February Find out more ➡️museums.cam.ac.uk/Opportunities

#Greenland Minister of Statehood and Foreign Affairs (and Research) visited London for meetings with the British Government as well as #Arctic science related meetings with British Antarctic Survey 🐧 and Scott Polar Research Institute. Important partnership potential 🇬🇱🇬🇧 naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2025/0…

📢We're hiring! 📢Do you have great communication & organisational skills? We're seeking someone to support our corporate venue hire & public engagement programme. We're a small, friendly team, come & join us! Closing date 9 Feb University of Cambridge Museums jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49969/

We were honoured to host Greenland MFA 🇬🇱'ss Minister for Statehood & Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt, at SPRI last week. Minister Motzfeldt and the Greenlandic delegation spent the afternoon at SPRI, exchanging ideas about how we can co-operate even more on research in Greenland.

The Polar Museum has been shortlisted for Cambridge Edition People’s Choice Awards as ‘Best Tourist Attraction’! Please vote for us before the vote closes on 14th February! VOTE HERE: surveymonkey.com/r/5CXJ2MF

Please vote for the Polar Museum!🐧🐻‍❄️

Make sure you're watching Channel 5 on Sunday (9th Feb) at 7.30pm! Our Polar Museum Curator, Dr David Waterhouse features in 'Ice Age: apocalypse' both on screen and as one of the mini-series' consultants. channel5.com/show/ice-age-a…

If you missed Polar Museum Curator, Dr David Waterhouse talking to Michaela Strachan on 'Ice Age: apocalypse/a frozen world' on Channel 5 on Sunday, then you can catch up here: channel5.com/show/ice-age-a…

Interested in polar archives? A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal. Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/arch…

🌍 New SCAR Visiting Scholar Report! ❄️ Prof. Silvia Dotta (UFABC) visited Scott Polar Research Institute to explore polar education in museums, share insights from Brazil & spark new collaborations. Full report: scar.org/scar-news/dott…

Can't join us in the evening? Visit during the day to 'meet' Mary Anning The Sedgwick Museum, learn about penguins Scott Polar Research Institute, join a Discovery Day Cambridge Museum of Technology, or go on Crazy Cone Caper Cam Botanic Garden. See all events: museums.cam.ac.uk/whats-on (3/3) #TwilightAtTheMuseums

Great new exhibition of former Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute Artists in Residence, opened this evening by Captain Scott’s granddaughter, artist Dafila Scott. My yearning continues!

Join the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on Tues 3rd June 2025, for a special fundraising event honouring the life of polar pioneer Prof. David Vaughan OBE FRGS. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start £25 per person⬇️

Join Scott Polar Research Institute's very own Dr Rebecca Dell at 12.30pm on Tuesday 13th May for a live alumni webinar: 'Melting Ice & Rising Seas: How Cambridge research is deepening our understanding of climate challenges' alumni.cam.ac.uk/events/the-fut…

A great article about some of the work we've been doing building connections between communities and objects in the Polar Museum: ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/inuit-mat… Thank you Dr Elizabeth Walsh and Corina Qaaġraq Kramer!