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Mon 18 August 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.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Inspiration in 5000 sketches

Turning ideas into reality, award winning designer Tom Karen showcases examples of his drawings spanning more than six decades in the design industry.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Structure; visualising the unseen

A fine art, print & sculpture exhibition by Elizabeth Fraser, Charlotte Morrison, Elizabeth Walker and Jane Pryor

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.

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.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Brass rubbing and family activities

Brass rubbing and a range of activities for discovering the remarkable history of the University Church.

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'.

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.

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.

10:30AM - 1:00PM

Summer at the museums - can you believe your eyes?

Explore the magical world of optical illusions through amazing scientific instruments at the Whipple Museum and make your own spyglasses and thaumatrope to take home.

11:30AM - 12:15PM

Summer at the museums - animal architects

Funnels, tunnels, nests and hives! Who are the chief construction workers of the animal kingdom? Discover more about the ingenious structures created by animals at this pop-up event with the Museum of Zoology.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Gustav Metzger: lift off!

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.

2:00PM - 2:30PM

Summer at the museums - building bilaterian bodies

Ever wondered why we have two of most things on our bodies? Come along to this drop-in session with the Museum of Zoology to find out about how our bilaterian bodies develop.

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.

3:00PM - 3:30PM

Summer at the museums - building bilaterian bodies

Ever wondered why we have two of most things on our bodies? Come along to this drop-in session with the Museum of Zoology to find out about how our bilaterian bodies develop.

4:00PM - 5:00PM on Wed 20 August 2014

Japanese summer school

A free residential summer school in Japanese aimed at students with an interest in studying Japanese at university.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Highlight O Radiant Dawn - Stile Antico

Stile Antico sings music by William Byrd and James MacMillan