History and culture festival Open Cambridge starts in September, with a number of free drop-in events.
The 10-day festival, which starts on Friday, September 8, features more than 30 drop-in events and a further 70 bookable events, with tickets available now.
Free events include an evening of lively 17th century traditional music from Cambridgeshire's Button End Band on September 9.
The group performs early music, social and ritual dance tunes, popular ballads, protest songs and contemporary folk music on the fiddle, guitar, banjo, hurdy gurdy, recorder, piano and melodeon.
On September 10 the Soham Comrades Band will perform as part of Music in the Parks, while on September 8 Shakespeare and Theatre in Cambridge will present an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays.
King's College will present the King's Library copy, alongside other early editions and archival materials.
Several walks and trails will be available, including the Wolfson's Tree Trail - a self-guided trail around the garden 'rooms' of the grounds of Wolfson's College - and the Wildlife in the City Trail at the Museum of Zoology.
Visitors can also attend the Abbey House Open Day on September 16, to find out more about the house - which was built in 1578 - and stories of its ghosts and former owners.
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Westminster College will also hold an open day on September 17, with 'self-guided tour' and 'treasure hunt' leaflets provided by the college's archivist Helen Weller.
All Saint's Church in Cottenham - a Grade I listed building with a distinctive 17th century tower - will hold an open day on September 16, and visitors can explore Girton's only nature reserve at the Town End Close Open Day on September 11.
Further drop-in events include a visit to the neo-classical Cambridge Observatory building, which turns 200 this year, during Open Observatory on September 8.
On September 15, visitors can discover the story of how the Scott Polar Research Institute was founded with 'On the Coat Tails of History: From the slopes of an Antarctic volcano to Cambridge'.
The full programme of drop-in and bookable events is available at https://www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/.
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