2024 Cambridge FestivaL PREVIEW

Volunteers from Cambridge Museum of Technology and Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group will be offering free, in-person and online contributions to 2024 Cambridge Festival:

Online industrial gazetteer: take a hike (or get on your bike)!

In 2001, late Museum volunteer Peter Filby co-authored a guide to the industrial archaeology of Cambridgeshire for the Association for Industrial Archaeology.

Inspired by Peter Filby’s contribution to industrial and landscape history of the city, Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group will launch an online gazetteer (hosted on the Museum of Technology’s website), which will provide easy-to-follow routes that explore the city’s industrial heritage.

The first edition of the online gazetteer explores pedestrian and cycle routes that follow the railway track between Cambridge station and Cambridge North station.

VIDEO: Cambridge’s CHANGING Railway Landscapes 1944–2024

Extract from aerial photograph of Cambridge 1944, illustrating (on lower left) railway sidings of the Cambridge University & Town Gas-Light Company (the sidings were on the site of the current Beehive retail centre). © Historic England, licensed to Cambridge Museum of Technology

To mark the launch of the online industrial gazetteer by Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group, an accompanying video – presented as part of the 2024 Cambridge Festival of Film – takes a bird’s eye view of 80 years of changing railway landscapes around the city.

Inspired by the 1944 aerial photography of the city (recently published by Historic England) and complemented with contemporary vistas from drones, this immersive video (produced by Museum volunteer Gordon Davies) will feature contributions courtesy of:

Print Workshop: Shadows and light: Exploring death through art
SATURDAY 16 mARCH 2024

A free, drop-in print workshop (no booking required). Participants will have the opportunity to view art relating to death ceremonies around the world and try their hand at print-making, including: Mexican tin art “hojala” and decorating sugar skulls.

Where: Pye Building, Cambridge Museum of Technology, CB5 8LD

When: Saturday 16 March 2024 (11:00-15:00)

Pop-up museuM Activity at new museums site:
Saturday 23 + sunday 24 march 2024

Education volunteer Amy Hooker will host free pop-up STEM workshops: have a blast creating and launching your own mini rocket! You will also be able to learn about aerodynamics

Where: University of Cambridge Student Services , New Museums Site Bene't Street, CB2 1TN

When: Saturday 23 March 2024 (10:00-16:00) + Sunday 24 March 2024 (11:00-16:00)

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