Thu 15 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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6:45PM - 8:30PM |
Sandra Chapman will talk about the pathogens on grasses and cereals whose life cycles are completely tied to the seed of their hosts. |