Thu 9 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Artificial Things - Photography Exhibition Photography exhibition curated in collaboration with Shutter Hub. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
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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6:45PM - 8:30PM |
Robert Day from the Hedgehog Hospital in Shepreth will talk about looking after hedgehogs including what to do if you find an injured or poorly hedgehog. |