| Wed 20 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. |
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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 - 12:30PM |
Summer at the museums - rockets! Another chance to design, build and launch rockets with our friends from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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 - 2:30PM |
Summer at the museums - King Arthur Join us for some family crafts with an Arthurian theme. Make your own Excalibur sword and a crown fit for King Arthur or Queen Guinevere. |
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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 - 3:00PM |
Summer at the Museums - meet your ancestor! Meet a Stone Age man, discover how he lived and then create some mini rock art to take home. |
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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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| 12:00PM - 4:00PM |
Summer at the Museums - hands-on with clay Hedgehogs, monsters, dinosaurs... It doesn’t matter at our family craft activity; just roll up your sleeves and enjoy making whatever you like with clay. |
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| 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Coins and currency in the crusader states With Dr Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper (Coins and Medals). Winner of the British Numismatic Society’s Blunt Prize for 2014. |
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| 2:00PM - 2:30PM |
Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do! Join Sinan Acikgoz of Cambridge University's Engineering Department to explore how buildings can be designed to withstand earthquakes, and answer the question "can a building be 100% earthquake-proof? |
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| 2:00PM - 3:30PM |
Summer at the Museums - life on the high seas Step back into a world of pirates, battleships and sea monsters. We’ll be learning all about life on the high seas in ancient Greece and taking inspiration from our Myths, Memories and Mysteries exhibition to create our own sea-inspired artwork. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Summer at the museums - amazing automata Get hands-on at this family workshop and make your own moving creation using some model engineering. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Summer at the museums - glass and precious metals: glass fusing workshop II Come to this sandwich fusing workshop! Design and make your own piece of fused glass art inspired by the Museum’s collection. This workshop is run by a local artist who specialises in stained and fused glass. |
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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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| 6:30PM - 8:00PM |
Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday. |
