| Sat 24 January 2015 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Exhibition of the history and evolution of St Michael's Church The History and evolution of St Michael's church. |
| 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
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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 - 4:45PM |
Local History: an introduction Do you want to know more about the history of your local community? |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
World War I consumed vast quantities of money as well as lives. This display of coins, medals, banknotes and government bonds provides an insight into the desperate measures that had to be used to maintain a supply of money, from the transition of gold coinage at the outbreak of war in 1914 to inflationary paper money by 1918 when the great European empires fell. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fatal consequences: the Chapman Brothers and Goya’s disasters of war The Chapman Brothers’ Disasters of War takes Goya’s print series of the same title and reinvents and extends the imagery and horrors with a cornucopia of ideas from later wars and modern culture. This exhibition shows different versions of the Chapman Bothers’ set, together with a selection from Goya’s original series. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Silent partners artist & mannequin from function to fetish Silent Partners is the first exhibition uncovering the evolution of the artist’s mannequin. It will show how, from being an inconspicuous studio tool, a piece of equipment as necessary as easel, pigments and brushes, the lay figure became the fetishised subject of the artist’s painting, and eventually, in the 20th century, a work of art in its own right. |
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| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| 2:00PM |
Masterclass with Sarah Connolly Four of the finest singer/pianist duos in Cambridge will be taking part in a masterclass with world-renowned mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly |
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| 2:00PM - 3:00PM |
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra |
