Open Cambridge is back! This year’s theme: Astounding Inventions
Open Cambridge returns from 9-18 September, offering ten days of free walks, talks, tours and online events aimed at celebrating local history and culture, with a focus on 2022’s theme of ‘Astounding Inventions’. The festival forms part of the national initiative Heritage Open Days, bringing together tens of thousands of volunteers and organisers to host free events in their local community.
A hotbed of ingenuity and technical innovation over the centuries, Cambridge is well-placed when it comes to putting the spotlight on groundbreaking inventions created in the UK. To pay homage to this year’s theme, the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge will hold an event on 15 September that looks at the technologies contributing to global food security, some of which were invented in Cambridge and now play a vital part in ensuring we have food on our plates.
There will also be plenty of opportunities to delve behind the scenes and explore places that aren’t often open to the public, such as the Grade I-listed Leper Chapel – one of Cambridge’s oldest buildings – which opens its doors on 18 September. Discover why there’s more to Cambridge University Farm than first meets the eye on an exclusive tour on 10 September, or venture beyond the gates of Magdalene College for a one-off tour of the Pepys Library and Robert Cripps’ Art Collection exhibition on 11 September.
To keep reading this article, head to our September issue here.
