Fri 16 February 2018 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology Landscapes Below celebrates a period of experimental geological map-making in the 19th century, focusing on the use of colour in geological maps and on the development of a visual vocabulary for the new science. |
9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Visions of Plague: Photographs of the third plague pandemic The exhibition showcases the founding moment in epidemic photography, presenting photographs collected and digitized from across the world by the ERC-funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. The exhibition extends over all four floors of the building. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Queer Antiquities: a Museum Trail A trail in the Museum of Classical Archaeology to celebrate LGBT History Month. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection Love is very much in the air in this exhibition, which contains objects alive with the range of emotions that it commands; from admiration and affection, joy and passion, longing and despair, to insults, indifference, grief and remembrance. |
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1:00PM - 4:00PM |
Family fun brass rubbing/crafts Brass rubbing/crafts - Terrific textures! |
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5:45PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Girton College 57th Founders' Memorial Lecture - Hisham Matar: Life and Word Former Visiting Fellow, Hisham Matar, will be speaking at Girton College for the 57th Founders' Memorial Lecture. Entrance is free, places are limited, reservations required. RSVP via email: ms2276@cam.ac.uk or tel. 01223 (3)38951. Doors open at 5:45pm for 6pm |