| Fri 24 March 2017 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING A one day inderdisciplinary scientific meeting covering Robotics in its different aspects and its varied applications. Organised by Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse. OPEN TO ALL who are interested: |
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
When the Heavens Meet the Earth brings together selected works from Robert Devereux’s contemporary art collection, highlighting his commitment to emerging artists who challenge Western preconceptions of, and hegemony over, cultural expression and contemporary art. |
