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Thu 20 June 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

9:00AM - 10:00PM

MRC open week

To celebrate the MRC’s 100th birthday, MRC scientists the length and breadth of the country are taking part in Open Week, throwing open their doors to give visitors a taste of some of the awe-inspiring science that goes on in our establishments.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Gathering light

The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Monumental ceramic vessels of colour and Navajo style weaving

A much anticipated joint exhibition by internationally collected and award winning sculptor Nicholas Rena whose work has just been singled out for praise by celebrated ceramicist Edmund de Waal along with the highly specialist weaving in abstract designs by St Ives artist Stella Benjamin.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Ingeborg Zu Schleswig-Holstein: new dimensions of abstraction

Werkstattgalerie presents works by Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein: a new abstractness that, in reality, is a different kind of concretion.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Creativity in the bronze age - a response

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

House guests

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

1:10PM - 1:40PM

House guests

Join Dr Mark Elliot, Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology for a lunchtime talk.

1:10PM - 1:40PM

House guests

Join Heather Lane, Librarian and Keeper of Collections, The Polar Museum for a lunchtime talk.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Clive Wilmer: poetry reading

A reading to launch Clive Wilmer's 'New and Collected Poems' from Carcanet Press.

6:30PM - 7:30PM

Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS: putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health care

As part of the International Year of Statistics 2013 the Statistical Laboratory and the MRC Biostatistics Unit are co-hosting a celebratory series of 1-hour public lectures

11:00PM - 11:45PM

The twits

With UV backlight technology, puppets and original music, this production promises to turn your world upside down!