Victoria-Anne Michel, a PhD researcher at Anglia-Ruskin University with OdEuropa project, explores how the smells of Cambridge Museum of Technology create multi-sensory environments for visitors to explore the city’s industrial heritage: with their noses!
Congratulations to “The Steaming Fartleks”, Cambridge Museum of Technology volunteers, who completed 2023 Chariots of Fire relay race in Cambridge.
Museum of Technology features in Cambridge Festival’s virtual exhibition and online festival of film
Museum volunteers have partnered with Cambridge Carbon Footprint to support sustainability in the local community through a repair café. Volunteers re-used and repurposed technology with the aim of minimizing recycling and waste.
The new Radio Enters the Home exhibition has been opened to great acclaim at Cambridge Museum of Technology . It is located in the Pye Building alongside the permanent Pye exhibition. It celebrates 100 Years of the BBC bringing radio into the home and the first radios made by Cambridge company Pye. Some 25 of the earliest Pye radios made between 1922 and 1932 are on display, together with panels outlining the history of the BBC and how radio helped Pye grow to become the largest company in Cambridge.
It is open to the public every Saturday and Sunday between 10.30am and 4pm until October included in the normal museum ticket. Tours of the exhibition are given by ex-Pye emplyees on the second Sunday of the month starting on 12 Februarys at 2 pm. The opening has been widely featured on BBC Look East , ITV Anglia news and BBC radio Cambridgeshire.
