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| Mon 2 July 2012 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Life through a lens: my gypsy culture positive images of young travellers by young travellers |
| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Discussion based sculpture course |
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| Tue 3 July 2012 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Life through a lens: my gypsy culture positive images of young travellers by young travellers |
| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
London 2012: unlimited global alchemy Unlimited Global Alchemy is a series of sketches, large scale paintings and portrait films. It is a collaboration between British and South African artists, focusing around the themes of a shared positive survivalist instinct, human frailty and resilience. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad |
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| 11:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 7:15PM - 8:15PM |
University social club swimming Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals |
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| Wed 4 July 2012 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Life through a lens: my gypsy culture positive images of young travellers by young travellers |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items. |
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| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
London 2012: unlimited global alchemy Unlimited Global Alchemy is a series of sketches, large scale paintings and portrait films. It is a collaboration between British and South African artists, focusing around the themes of a shared positive survivalist instinct, human frailty and resilience. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad |
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| 11:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public. |
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| 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Scrutinising sgraffito: Conservation of Medieval Cypriot glazed bowls A lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Wintercomfort summer event: Trinity hall old library and gardens The Old Library is the jewel in the crown of Trinity Hall and one of the hidden gems of Cambridge. Built in c.1590, it is the oldest library in Cambridge still in its original setting. |
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| 6:15PM - 7:30PM |
Gnawa Yinga bring Moroccan and African drums, guembri, song and dance to the Botanic Garden's late til 8pm opening, in a fusion of sacred songs and rhythms from Morocco and Burkina Faso. |
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| Thu 5 July 2012 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Life through a lens: my gypsy culture positive images of young travellers by young travellers |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items. |
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| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
London 2012: unlimited global alchemy Unlimited Global Alchemy is a series of sketches, large scale paintings and portrait films. It is a collaboration between British and South African artists, focusing around the themes of a shared positive survivalist instinct, human frailty and resilience. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad |
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| 11:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum. |
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| 7:00PM |
This talk by playwright Jean Rees-Lyons and local historian Sarah Baylis explores the mysterious life of Doris Elizabeth Adams. Includes a gypsy dance dem |
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| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
Join Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, for a spectacular family talk packed with explosive demonstrations. |
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| Fri 6 July 2012 | Times TBC |
Highlight London 2012: King's College summer choral concert King's College Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music perform a new work inspired by the arrival of the Olympic Torch to Cambridge. They will also perform Mozart's Requiem and Handel's Dixit Dominus |
| 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Life through a lens: my gypsy culture positive images of young travellers by young travellers |
|
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items. |
|
| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
London 2012: Cambridgeshire competes at the Museum of Classical Archaeology As part of Cambridgeshire Competes, a programme Inspired by London 2012, the Museum of Classical Archaeology will tell the story of the classical Olympics. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
London 2012: unlimited global alchemy Unlimited Global Alchemy is a series of sketches, large scale paintings and portrait films. It is a collaboration between British and South African artists, focusing around the themes of a shared positive survivalist instinct, human frailty and resilience. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad |
|
| 11:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public. |
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| 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Highlight Lunchtime concert Stunning series of free concerts given by musicians and singers from the Stephen Perse Foundation |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| Sat 7 July 2012 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Life through a lens: my gypsy culture positive images of young travellers by young travellers |
| 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items. |
|
| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
London 2012: unlimited global alchemy Unlimited Global Alchemy is a series of sketches, large scale paintings and portrait films. It is a collaboration between British and South African artists, focusing around the themes of a shared positive survivalist instinct, human frailty and resilience. Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad |
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| 11:00AM - 3:00PM |
Sow some cress in the shape of your initials, and enjoy eating it a few days later! Find out what seeds need to germinate successfully. |
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| 11:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public. |
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| 11:45AM - 1:45PM |
For adults and those aged 16+ |
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| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Cambridge & London 2012: Fun lab at the big day out The University's Public Engagement Team will be hosting activities in the Fun Lab on Parker's Piece during the City's Big Weekend celebrations. There will be plenty of hands-on events for all the family to enjoy. Come and make your own fossil, find out how a robot can solve a Rubik's cube or test your reaction time on the Cambridge University Sport's Batak wall! |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 3:00PM - 4:00PM |
Join Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, for a spectacular family talk packed with explosive demonstrations. |
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| Sun 8 July 2012 | 5:00AM - 7:45AM |
Highlight Cambridge & London 2012: Olympic torch relay in Cambridge The Olympic Torch comes to Cambridge on 7 and 8 July. At 6.35am on 8 July, the Relay begins at a private event at Trinity College before the Torch is punted from Trinity towards Quayside, where it will disembark, moving out of the City. The public will be able to view the Torch's passage from the backs of Trinity and St. John's, which will open from Queen's Road at 5am and 5.45am respectively. |
| 6:45AM - 8:00AM |
Highlight Olympic flame passes Kettle’s yard Come and join us early on Sunday morning to watch the torch leave Cambridge, there will be free coffee and croissants and the gallery will be open. On the previous day you can find out more about all the University of Cambridge museums on our stall as part of the Big Weekend on Parkers Piece. |
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| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:45PM |
Discover the amazing diversity of insects with this special trail around the museum to celebrate National Insect Week 2012. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Jane Ackroyd An exhibition of sculpture by Jane Ackroyd. |
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| 11:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
|
| 6:00PM - 6:30PM |
Organ Recital to be performed by John Challenger (St John’s College) |