| Thu 18 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Exhibition by Cambridge artists Julia Ball and Loukas Morley |
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Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
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Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica Over dinner in the spring of 1950 a party of scientists produced an ambitious proposal for a global year of science: the International Geophysical Year was born. With a heavy emphasis on Antarctica, thousands of people from dozens of countries came together to learn about our planet. |
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Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
A public lecture with Professor Alison Gopnik (University of California at Berkeley) |
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| 5:45PM - 7:00PM |
Lecture by Professor Alison Liebling SOLD OUT 'Women in our own right or ‘Honorary Men’? Reflections on the past, present and future in academic life' |
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| 8:00PM - 9:30PM |
Symphonic Dances: CUMS Concert Orchestra and CUWO Cambridge University Wind Orchestra and CUMS Concert Orchestra join forces for their final concert of the 2016-17 season. |
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| 8:00PM - 10:00PM |
Kettle's Yard chamber series: Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin & Huw Watkins, piano Kettle’s Yard artist-in-residence for 2016-17 Tamsin Waley-Cohen joins forces with her long time collaborator Huw Watkins for a programme that gives us a snapshot of music across Europe in 1917. |
