Thu 31 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 - 5:00PM |
Turning ideas into reality, award winning designer Tom Karen showcases examples of his drawings spanning more than six decades in the design industry. |
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9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Structure; visualising the unseen A fine art, print & sculpture exhibition by Elizabeth Fraser, Charlotte Morrison, Elizabeth Walker and Jane Pryor |
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9:00AM - 6:00PM |
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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10:00AM - 12:00PM |
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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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 Exhibition. myths, memories and mysteries: artists revisit the past Jointly hosted with Wolfson College, 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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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 - 11:30AM |
Boy's cave is cold. Can he find somewhere warm to sleep? Join him on his prehistoric adventure to find out! |
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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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11:30AM - 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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11:45AM - 12:45PM |
Summer at the museums - Oscar and Arabella: hot hot hot Meet two woolly mammoths who don't like hot weather - and find out what they do about it! Family story telling for under 5's. |
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12:00PM - 4:00PM |
Summer at the museums - eels alive! Come and learn about these fascinating creatures, and find out more about where they lived. Follow the slippery trail and make your own eel-man. |
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2:00PM - 3:00PM |
Summer at the Museums - awesome artefacts: Romans handling session Fancy a chance to handle real Roman artefacts? Come along to find out what these 2,000-year-old objects can teach us about life in ancient Rome. |
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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. |