| Sat 11 February 2012 | 7:30AM - 9:45AM |
City of Cambridge symphony orchestra concert with Guy Johnston cello concert of music by Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Britten and Wagner |
| 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. |
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| 9:00AM - 8:00PM |
A 50 Years Restrospective of Self Portraits |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge maths circle Hands-on mathematical activities for children and young people aged 5 to 18. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight These Rough Notes: Captain Scott's last expedition A chance to see unique manuscripts from the archive of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) on show to commemorate the centenary of the first British expedition to the attain the South Pole. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:30PM |
A-level and GCSE art advice for students preparing for their exams |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer Coins and medals from the 17th-century |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Discover the extraordinary expressive potential of the pencil in a display ranging from 17th-century miniatures on vellum to compositional sketches by George Romney and William Blake, and drawings by Ingres and Degas. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin This exhibition investigates the appeal of Chardin’s familial imagery for the 18th-century public, and takes a close look at the skill of the printmakers who interpreted his canvases into graphic art. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Braided together Hair in the work of contemporary women artists |
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| 1:00PM - 5:00PM |
Artists in focus: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the closure of the house extension. The first of these displays will look at the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
