| Today | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Volcanoes: beauty and menace An exhibition of photographs of volcanoes and major volcanic eruptions, their hazards and consequences (1980 to the present). |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. |
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| 10:00AM - 11:30AM |
Monthly drop-in art sessions for pre-school children and their carers. Just come and have fun making whatever you want. Admission is first come, first served. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight These Rough Notes: Captain Scott's last expedition A chance to see unique manuscripts from the archive of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) on show to commemorate the centenary of the first British expedition to the attain the South Pole. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer Coins and medals from the 17th-century |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Discover the extraordinary expressive potential of the pencil in a display ranging from 17th-century miniatures on vellum to compositional sketches by George Romney and William Blake, and drawings by Ingres and Degas. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin This exhibition investigates the appeal of Chardin’s familial imagery for the 18th-century public, and takes a close look at the skill of the printmakers who interpreted his canvases into graphic art. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Braided together Hair in the work of contemporary women artists |
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| 1:00PM - 5:00PM |
Artists in focus: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the closure of the house extension. The first of these displays will look at the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:30PM |
Lecture considering control and ownership issues of intellectual property and its exploitation.. Followed by free drinks reception from 6.30pm. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:30PM |
Highlight Grey matters: A conversation A conversation with artist Christopher Cook, poet John Kinsella and Jane Munro from the Fitzwilliam Museum on the importance of the grey scale in art - an event for the exhibition Grey Matters: Graphite |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight In conversation with Dame Stella Rimington A discussion with the leading author, ex-Director General of MI5 and Chair of the 2011 Man Booker Prize judges |
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| 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
One professor. One student. A man. A girl. Accusations are made. We see no evidence. Truth doesn't matter any more. |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Keeping the skies alive with swifts Dick Newell will talk about reversing the decline in swifts. |
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| 7:45PM - 10:30PM |
You are warmly invited to attend an evening of storytelling. Prepare yourself for bawdiness, humour, tragedy and merriment in a quick tour through Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. |
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| 9:30PM - 11:00PM |
The machine can predict, with complete accuracy, how you are going to die. Morbid, yes. But interesting. And fun. |
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| 11:00PM - 11:59PM |
Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it. |



