Exhibitions
Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition
Learn about the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition.
| Mon 22 December 2014 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Concrete poetry exhibition - a token of concrete affection Works from the personal collection of art historian Stephen Bann relating to close exchanges between Cambridge and Brazilian poets in the 1960s. |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'. |
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| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| Tue 23 December 2014 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Concrete poetry exhibition - a token of concrete affection Works from the personal collection of art historian Stephen Bann relating to close exchanges between Cambridge and Brazilian poets in the 1960s. |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
World War I consumed vast quantities of money as well as lives. This display of coins, medals, banknotes and government bonds provides an insight into the desperate measures that had to be used to maintain a supply of money, from the transition of gold coinage at the outbreak of war in 1914 to inflationary paper money by 1918 when the great European empires fell. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Caroline Watson and female printmaking in late Georgian England Caroline Watson ( 1760/61 - 1814) was one of the most skilful engravers working in late 18th century England. She can be seen as the first British professional woman engraver. This exhibition shows a selection of her portrait and subject prints, together with those of other contemporary women printmakers. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fatal consequences: the Chapman Brothers and Goya’s disasters of war The Chapman Brothers’ Disasters of War takes Goya’s print series of the same title and reinvents and extends the imagery and horrors with a cornucopia of ideas from later wars and modern culture. This exhibition shows different versions of the Chapman Bothers’ set, together with a selection from Goya’s original series. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Silent partners artist & mannequin from function to fetish Silent Partners is the first exhibition uncovering the evolution of the artist’s mannequin. It will show how, from being an inconspicuous studio tool, a piece of equipment as necessary as easel, pigments and brushes, the lay figure became the fetishised subject of the artist’s painting, and eventually, in the 20th century, a work of art in its own right. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
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| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| Wed 24 December 2014 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Concrete poetry exhibition - a token of concrete affection Works from the personal collection of art historian Stephen Bann relating to close exchanges between Cambridge and Brazilian poets in the 1960s. |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
|
| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| Thu 25 December 2014 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Concrete poetry exhibition - a token of concrete affection Works from the personal collection of art historian Stephen Bann relating to close exchanges between Cambridge and Brazilian poets in the 1960s. |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
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| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| Fri 26 December 2014 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Concrete poetry exhibition - a token of concrete affection Works from the personal collection of art historian Stephen Bann relating to close exchanges between Cambridge and Brazilian poets in the 1960s. |
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
|
| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| Sat 27 December 2014 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
World War I consumed vast quantities of money as well as lives. This display of coins, medals, banknotes and government bonds provides an insight into the desperate measures that had to be used to maintain a supply of money, from the transition of gold coinage at the outbreak of war in 1914 to inflationary paper money by 1918 when the great European empires fell. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Caroline Watson and female printmaking in late Georgian England Caroline Watson ( 1760/61 - 1814) was one of the most skilful engravers working in late 18th century England. She can be seen as the first British professional woman engraver. This exhibition shows a selection of her portrait and subject prints, together with those of other contemporary women printmakers. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fatal consequences: the Chapman Brothers and Goya’s disasters of war The Chapman Brothers’ Disasters of War takes Goya’s print series of the same title and reinvents and extends the imagery and horrors with a cornucopia of ideas from later wars and modern culture. This exhibition shows different versions of the Chapman Bothers’ set, together with a selection from Goya’s original series. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Silent partners artist & mannequin from function to fetish Silent Partners is the first exhibition uncovering the evolution of the artist’s mannequin. It will show how, from being an inconspicuous studio tool, a piece of equipment as necessary as easel, pigments and brushes, the lay figure became the fetishised subject of the artist’s painting, and eventually, in the 20th century, a work of art in its own right. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
|
| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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| Sun 28 December 2014 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Caroline Watson and female printmaking in late Georgian England Caroline Watson ( 1760/61 - 1814) was one of the most skilful engravers working in late 18th century England. She can be seen as the first British professional woman engraver. This exhibition shows a selection of her portrait and subject prints, together with those of other contemporary women printmakers. |
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
|
| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
World War I consumed vast quantities of money as well as lives. This display of coins, medals, banknotes and government bonds provides an insight into the desperate measures that had to be used to maintain a supply of money, from the transition of gold coinage at the outbreak of war in 1914 to inflationary paper money by 1918 when the great European empires fell. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Fatal consequences: the Chapman Brothers and Goya’s disasters of war The Chapman Brothers’ Disasters of War takes Goya’s print series of the same title and reinvents and extends the imagery and horrors with a cornucopia of ideas from later wars and modern culture. This exhibition shows different versions of the Chapman Bothers’ set, together with a selection from Goya’s original series. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Silent partners artist & mannequin from function to fetish Silent Partners is the first exhibition uncovering the evolution of the artist’s mannequin. It will show how, from being an inconspicuous studio tool, a piece of equipment as necessary as easel, pigments and brushes, the lay figure became the fetishised subject of the artist’s painting, and eventually, in the 20th century, a work of art in its own right. |