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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Fri 1 July 2016 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibitions by Beata Zygarlowska and Sandra Scott

Works by photographer Beata Zygarlowska and textile artist Sandra Scott

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World

The first of two stunning exhibitions marking the 600th anniversary of Cambridge University Library, Lines of Thought includes iconic treasures covering over 4000 years of human thought. Family activities are available.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight By endurance we conquer: Shackleton and his men

This major exhibition commemorates the centenary of the Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

1816: Prints by Turner, Goya and Cornelius

A look across Europe at three series of prints by major artists published in 1816, the year of the founding of the Fitzwilliam.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Brueghel and his time: landscape drawings from the Bruce Ingram bequest

This exhibition looks at what interested Lord Fitzwilliam most in acquiring and ordering his print collection and features examples of his albums, rarely seen in public but offering a fascinating insight into the mind of a late 18th century collector.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Celebrating the First 200 Years: The Fitzwilliam Museum 1816 - 2016

Running throughout 2016, this exhibition will explore the Fitzwilliam’s past, present and future.

11:00AM

Oxford v Cambridge cricket match

Oxford v Cambridge cricket match

6:00PM - 7:00PM

'Is there a future for “Natural Theology”? Evolution, Cooperation and the Question of God’

Professor Sarah Coakley will deliver the 4th Clare Hall 50th Anniversary Lecture