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Sat 17 February 2018 9:00AM - 4:30PM

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.

10:00AM - 1:00PM

Queer Antiquities: a Museum Trail

A trail in the Museum of Classical Archaeology to celebrate LGBT History Month.

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

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.

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.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Religion in the Ancient World (Glanville Study Day)

A series of 40-minute talks on "Religion in the Ancient World", in connection with the Glanville Lecture 2018 by scholars from Cambridge and beyond

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Highlight Genomic Expressions

Genomic Expressions exhibition asks the question 'What does genomics mean to you?' to those who work at the Wellcome Genome Campus. Some answers may make you smile, some are heart-warming but all encourage us, the viewer, to reflect on our own answer to the question.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The Book of Exodus and the Invention of Religion (Glanville Lecture 2018)

The Glanville Lecture for 2018, entitled The Book of Exodus and the Invention of Religion, will be given by Professor Dr Jan Assmann (Honorary Professor, University of Konstanz; Visiting Professor, University of Luzern; Emeritus Professor, University of Heidelberg)

8:00PM - 10:30PM

Mahler Symphony No.1

Cambridge University Orchestra conducted by Ben Gernon