Sunday 21st February 2016

WALKING THE REALLY HORRIBLE HIDDEN HISTORY OF RIVERSIDE AND ABBEY

11am (90 mins) with Professor Helen Weinstein, Director of Historyworks and Allan Brigham, Local Historian and Blue Badge Guide, Chair of the Friends at the Museum of Cambridge and Pam Halls, Curator of Cambridge Museum of Technology. This walk is a Cambridge History Festival event. To find out more about the History Festival and find more events in the programme go to: http://www.folkmuseum.org.uk/page.php?id=530

Starts at the front gate of Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside CB5 and ends with a welcome to Cambridge Museum of Technology, by the Curator Pam Halls, with time for self guided tours.  

Ticket Info: You can turn up on the day! But places are limited, so to guarantee a place, do book in advance via this Eventbrite page and donate minimum £5 per person via eventbrite PayPal service, unless you qualify for a FREE  place as an Abbey Meadows School affiliate - with family as staff member, family of pupil, or family of alumnae. Sponsored by: Historyworks (free places for Abbey Meadows children and staff and alumnae and their families). Sign-up via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abbey-ward-history-walk-tickets-19478865812

Description: Join Professor Helen Weinstein, (Director of Historyworks) and Allan Brigham (Blue Badge guide and Chair of the Friends at the Museum of Cambridge) for a 90 minute guided walk discovering the stinking industrial history of Newmarket Road, the remains of Barnwell Priory, the site of the largest medieval fair at Stourbridge, revealing the problems of Leprosy and the gem of the Leper Chapel, uncovering the explosive dinosaur deposits of Coldhams Common, then burrowing deep in the smelliest crevices of Riverside’s past to see how Victorian technology saved the city from a growing mound of refuse and a river full of sewage. The walk ends with the Curator of Cambridge Museum of Technology, Pam Halls, welcoming visitors and introducing the self-guided tours. For further information please go to: www.creatingmycambridge.com

1pm - 5pm Sunday 21st February: FAMILY FUN DAY - FREE - all Welcome! 

Creative STEM Doing and Art Activities for families delivered by Volunteers from Cambridge Museum of Technology, from MakeSpace, ARM, CamCreatives, Great St Mary's Heritage Centre, Cambridge University Eco Racing (Electronic Car Club), E Luminate, and the University of Cambridge's Doctoral Training Programme  

Enjoy a STEAM taster day of creative thinking and doing activities at the Museum for children and adults together!

The family funday will take inspiration from the past, present and future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths and will include Art workshops to illustrate Cambridge's history of technology, using Minecraft to recreate historic buildings, pop-up moving-part chimney cards, mega newspaper engineering sessions, balloon-powered cars, Raspberry Pi robo crocodile coding, and spectacular rocket making and launching!

The future will be represented by the ingenuity of families participating, and supported by volunteers from Cambridge Museum of Technology, ARM, Makespace and CamCreatives in particular, who will share and showcase Robots, Zoetropes, and prototypes of new inventions!  

For further information, please go to www.creatingmycambridge.com