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Sun 24 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.

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Luciano Rosado: the spare room

Luciana Rosado's drawing is exhibited alongside her painting, for the first time, and is part of a body of work that focuses on self-portraiture as the main subject and that assumes a more immediate and spontaneous approach to artistic creation.

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.

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.

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.

12:00PM - 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.

12:00PM - 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.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the museums - studio Sunday

Join us in the learning studio to make your own artwork inspired by our exhibitions and collection. A chance to explore, chat, sketch, make and play.

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.