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Fitzwilliam Museum: Events

Exhibitions

20 May - 28 September Shiba Gallery Christopher Le Brun - fifty etchings 2005
23 May - 7 September Octagon Anglo-Saxon art in the round
27 May - 7 September Charrington Print Room 'The field calls me to labour': Watercolours of nineteenth-century rural Britain by Robert Hills (1769-1844) and his contemporaries
8 June - 28 September Mellon Gallery 'On the Shoulders of Giants', Photographic portraits from the University of Cambridge
1 May - 29 June Chinese Gallery (Gallery 28) Special Display: Chinese Imperial jades

Lunchtime talks

Art in Context talks take place in the Seminar Room on Wednesdays from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.

30 April An overlooked Fitzwilliam treasure; an Italian fourteenth-century gilded glass plaque, by Irene Cooper, Research Assistant, Applied Arts
7 May Guercino's 'The Betrayal of Christ', by David Oldfield, of the Department of History of Art
14 May Voyage to the afterlife: travelling in style in ancient Egypt, by Helen Strudwick, Senior Assistant Keeper, Antiquities, and Thomas Mann, of Downing College
21 May Hidden histories - Qing dynasty Imperial jades in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, by James Lin, Assistant Keeper, Applied Arts
11 June Fifty etchings, by Christopher Le Brun, Artist
18 June Hidden histories - Buried treasure in Medieval Cambridge, by Martin Allen, Assistant Keeper, Coins and Medals
25 June Impressionism - 'Palette scrapings on a grubby canvas' ?, by Julia Tozer, Head of Education

General talks

Talks to accompany the exhibition Anglo-Saxon art in the round take place in the Seminar Room on the following dates from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.

4 June Money in Anglo-Saxon England, by Dr Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals
17 July The art of Anglo-Saxon coinage, by Dr Anna Gannon, Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art
24 July Life in the Anglo-Saxon period, by Dr Tim Pestell, Curator of Archaeology, Norwich Castle Museum
31 July Anglo-Saxon dress and jewellery, by Dr Sonja Marzinzik, Curator of Prehistory and Europe, The British Museum

Music

Promenade Concerts will take place on Sundays from 1.15 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Gallery 3 on the following dates: 27 April, 4, 11, 18, 25 May, 1, 8 June.

Introduced Harpsichord Recitals by Dr Gerald Gifford (Honorary Keeper of Music) will take place on Fridays from 1.15 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Gallery 3 as follows:

2 May Keyboard transcriptions of orchestral music in the Fitzwilliam collection: a special enthusiasm of the Founder?
23 May Treasures of Georgian harpsichord music from the Fitzwilliam collection

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sundays, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For further information, telephone 01223 332900, or see the website at http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/.