While there is no formal program, ICSA would be delighted to help with connecting Accompanying Persons and any queries.

The eight University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden represent the UK’s highest concentration of internationally important collections outside London. With more than five million works of art, artefacts, and specimens, the collections have supported nearly 300 years of investigation into the world around us.

• The Fitzwilliam Museum
  The art and antiquities and primary museum of the University of Cambridge – free entry.
• Cambridge University Botanic Garden
  The Botanic Garden is a treasure trove of over 8,000 plant species, including nine National Collections and a wonderful arboretum.
• Kettle’s Yard
  Set in a beautiful house, it hosts a remarkable collection of modern art and regular contemporary art exhibitions.

• The Polar Museum
  From penguins to paintings, sleeping bags to sextants, Inuit art to explorers’ diaries, find out about exploration and survival at the extreme ends of the earth – free entry. 
• Museum of Classical Archaeology
  Walk among the gods and heroes in one of the largest surviving collections of plaster casts of Greek and Roman statues in the world – free entry.
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  Two million years of human history and one million artefacts. Discover the earliest African stone tools, recent finds, and Captain Cook’s voyages – free entry.
• Museum of Zoology
  Thousands of specimens spanning the entire animal kingdom, from elephants, giant ground sloths and giraffes, to birds, reptiles, insects and molluscs – free entry.
• Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
  The University’s oldest museum takes you on a 4.5 billion year journey through time, from the meteoritic building blocks of planets, to the thousands of fossils of animals and plants that illustrate the evolution of life in the oceans, on land and in the air. 
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science
  Discover a vast array of scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the present day. From microscopes and telescopes to pocket calculators and slide rules, find out more about the tools that scientists have used to understand the world around us.

More about the museums including opening times and addresses can be found at https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/

•  The Orchard Tea Garden
  Just a fifteen-minute taxi from the bustle of Cambridge, The Orchard in Grantchester is an oasis of thought-provoking calm that has been an essential part of Cambridge life for over 125 years.  Sitting under its trees or snuggling in its old pavilion, customers have included Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, Rupert Brooke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and generations of Cambridge students.https://www.theorchardteagarden.co.uk/

• The Eagle Pub
  Established in 1667, The Eagle has poured pints for patrons including discoverers of DNA Watson and Crick and hundreds of WWII RAF pilots who left behind a wall of messages in the hope they would never be forgotten.
  https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/cambridgeshire/eagle
   
• Cambridge Gin Laboratory
  Owned and operated by the world-famous Cambridge Distillery, this interactive space in the heart of Cambridge is dedicated to the appreciation of everyone's favourite spirit.
  https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/pages/laboratory
   
• Audley End
  One of England’s grandest mansions, with state rooms, stables, servant wing, kitchen garden, and beautiful grounds. Twenty-minute train from Cambridge to Audley End station + taxi from rank.
  https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/audley-end-house-and-gardens/
   
• Ely
  The 14^th century Cathedral is widely recognised as one of the wonders of the medieval world.  Sixteen-minute train from Cambridge to Ely.
  https://www.visitely.org.uk/establishments/ely-cathedral/
   
• Newmarket
  Horseracing in Newmarket was recorded in the time of James I, with the racecourse founded in 1636. Visit the National Horseracing Museum and explore the Trainer’s House and King’s Yard galleries, the Packard Galleries of British Sporting Art, and meet former racehorses in the flagship home of Retraining of Racehorses.  Twenty-minute train to Newmarket + 10-minute walk to museum.
  Museum https://www.nhrm.co.uk/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6uHl0bGmhwMVyJZQBh2oLAfOEAAYASAAEgIhSvD_BwE
  Racecourse https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/newmarket/visitor-info/directions-and-parking/
   
• More Ideas – “Visit Cambridge” https://www.visitcambridge.org/  

Cambridge has three shopping centres

1. The Grafton, Lion Yard, and Grand Arcade - within a ten-minute walk from the University Arms Hotel. The historic core and cobbled streets are home to a vast array of independent boutiques. 
2. King’s Parade features shops selling University souvenirs. The centrally located Market Square where traders have been running stalls since the Middle Ages offers street food, art, clothes, jewellery, books, music, and souvenirs.
3. Mills Road is a long, street art-splashed road with quaint terraces and cool independent shops.

More ideas: https://www.visitcambridge.org/place-categories/shopping/   

• Midsummer House
  Two-Michelin-starred restaurant on the River Cam.
  https://midsummerhouse.co.uk/

• Restaurant Twenty-Two
  Michelin-starred restaurant in a Victorian townhouse.
  https://www.restaurant22.co.uk/

• The Ivy
  Brasserie offering relaxed, sophisticated all-day dining from modern British cuisine to café-style classics and vegan and vegetarian dishes.
  https://ivycollection.com/restaurants/the-ivy-cambridge-brasserie/
   
• Cotto
  Fine dining restaurant based at Gonville Hotel across from the University Arms Hotel on Parker's Piece.
  https://www.cottocambridge.co.uk/
   
• Parker’s Tavern
  Gastropub in the University Arms Hotel featuring classic British food.
  https://parkerstavern.com/
   
• The Tiffin Truck
  Street food, curries, and a healthy selection of lassis, cooked up by the team from top Indian restaurant Navadhanya (across from University Arms Hotel).
  https://thetiffintruck.co.uk/

• Cambridge Chop House

               Old-school British restaurant on King’s Parade with a vaulted cellar dining room.
             https://cambridgechophouse.co.uk/

• Fitzbillies

               100+ year old Cambridge institution famous for Chelsea buns and cream teas.
             https://www.fitzbillies.com/

• Stem + Glory

               Plant-based sustainable gastronomic restaurant near the rail station.
             https://stemandglory.uk/cambridge

• The Old Bicycle Shop

                Inventive British dishes served in what once was Britain’s oldest bike shop.
             https://www.oldbicycleshop.com/

• The Oak Bistro

                A cosy bistro housed in a former historic coaching inn.
              https://www.theoakbistro.co.uk/

• Pint Shop

               Fancy pub grub served in a Grade II-listed building that was once home to E.M. Forster, author of A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India.
             https://pintshop.co.uk/locations/cambridge/

• Al Casbah

               A North African restaurant that mixes traditional and modern cuisine.
             https://www.al-casbah.com/

• Jack’s Gelato

               Beautiful hand-made ice cream and sorbets.
             https://www.jacksgelato.com/

“When one is tired of London, one is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.” - Samuel Johnson

Trains from Cambridge to London King’s Cross take as little as 48-minutes. https://www.thetrainline.com/ 

Many of the most visited attractions in London are free, including the British Museum, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, Southbank Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Gallery, Science Museum, Buckingham Palace, and Hyde Park.

Websites detailing sights and things to do: 
     “Visit London”  https://www.visitlondon.com/ 
     “TimeOut” https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/london-for-visitors 
     “U.S. News Travel” https://travel.usnews.com/London_England/Things_To_Do/ 

The Transport for London website includes tube, train, and bus maps and a journey