Sat 24 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. |
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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 |
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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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda The Heong Gallery is delighted to announce the UK presentation of The Court of Redonda – a major solo exhibition by Stephen Chambers RA, following its highly acclaimed unveiling as a Collateral Event of the 2017 Venice Biennale. |
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1:30PM - 4:00PM |
Cambridge University Opera Society Mainshow 2018 |
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5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Varsity Concert: Oxford & Cambridge University Wind Orchestras Join the Oxford and Cambridge University Wind Orchestras for this Varsity joint concert in Trinity College Chapel. |
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7:30PM - 9:30PM |
Academy of Great St. Mary's Christmas Orchestral Concert Orchestral concert: Weber: Oberon Overture Brahms: Symphony No. 3 Schumann: Introduction, Scherzo and Finale |
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7:45PM - 10:15PM |
Cambridge University Opera Society Mainshow 2018 |