Cambridge University Reporter


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

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.
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

There will be a talk to accompany the exhibition On the Shoulders of Giants, by the photographer Howard Guest, on 3 July, from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.

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/.