Sat 26 July 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition by Resident Artist Sula Rubens Sula Rubens reveals the life and soul of Michaelhouse |
8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sula Rubens- artist in residence Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work. |
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9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946 An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, showing books published, mainly in France, after the liberation of Paris and before the end of 1946. |
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9:30AM - 4:00PM |
White heat: art, science and social responsibility in 1960s Britain A one day conference exploring the relationships between art, science and society in 1960s Britain. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Delivery by design: stamps in Antarctica Philately will get you everywhere...even Antarctica! Explore the art and history of stamps from Antarctica. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Reinventing the wheel: bicycles in the Polar Regions An exhibition demonstrating the use of bicycles in the Polar Regions |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Building an Empire: money, trade and power in the age of Charlemagne This exhibition marks the 1200th anniversary of the death of Charlemagne, ‘beacon, king and father of Europe’. A selection of the finest medieval coins from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s own collection (Frankish, Anglo- Saxon, Viking, Byzantine and Islamic) will be on show to illustrate the complex political, economic and cultural ties of the period. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Discoveries: art, science and exploration from the University of Cambridge Museums The first major exhibition to bring together the fascinating collections from all eight University of Cambridge Museums. Discoveries displays objects that span millennia; from artworks to scientific artefacts, historic instruments to rare zoological specimens. This exhibition is a smaller version of that displayed at London’s Two Temple Place. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Extreme engineering Engineering gets extreme this summer at the Cambridge Science Centre. Families! Build and test your ideas this summer as the Cambridge Science Centre celebrates engineering in its latest exhibition, Extreme Engineering, opening on 24 July. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
La Grande Guerre: French prints of the First World War See the first 7 months of WWI dramatically illustrated in the colour lithographs & wood-engravings of the series La Grande Guerre. Scenes of action in the form of battles, sieges & airstrikes are punctuated by moments of relative repose, including commemorations, award ceremonies & depictions of the Allied forces, such as the English & Scottish taking five o’clock tea & Indian soldiers at prayer. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The conservation of illuminated manuscript fragments This focused display highlights the Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscript fragments and provides a unique glimpse behind-the-scenes into the world of contemporary conservation and some of the considerable challenges that these beautiful objects pose. |
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10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
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10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Crafting colour: beads, pattern and painting from the Kalahari Exhibition exploring the art work produced in D'Kar, western Botswana. |
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11:00AM - 12:00PM |
Come along and discover the secrets behind extremely strong Graphene – the wonder material that may hold the promise of see through, light-weight and flexible gadgets in the future. |
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11:30AM - 5:00PM |
Visitors to Lift Off! will be submersed in Gustav Metzger’s world of creative experimentation and activism between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations, this ambitious exhibition focuses on Metzger’s auto-creative work. |
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1:30PM - 2:30PM |
Come along and discover the secrets behind extremely strong Graphene – the wonder material that may hold the promise of see through, light-weight and flexible gadgets in the future. |
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2:30PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition. myths, memories and mysteries: artists revisit the past Jointly hosted with the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Myths, Memories and Mysteries is a mixed-media exhibition which explores the ways in which artists confront and negotiate the past, with a special focus on Greece. |
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5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Gustav Metzger in conversation: music and art in the 1960s Private view of Gustav Metzger: LIFT OFF! and a panel discussion with the artist |