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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Sat 7 December 2019 10:00AM - 12:30PM

Operation Survival

Take part in a high-energy game about survival across four Museums in Cambridge.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Walking on Thin Ice Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection

Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

FEAST & FAST: The art of food in Europe, 1500 –1800 Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude

Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration

This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists

An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists.

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Greenham Women Everywhere

An exhibition exploring Greenham Common Peace Camp in 1982. Part of The Rising Tide programme.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight BARBARA HEPWORTH: DIVIDED CIRCLE

BARBARA HEPWORTH: DIVIDED CIRCLE brings together rarely Seen works from major private collections and works housed at public galleries such as Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal), The Courtauld Gallery (London), The Hepworth Wakefield, The Lightbox (Woking), and Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool).

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum.

2:30PM - 4:00PM

Rock Choir

Rock Choir is much more than a choir – it’s a multi layered singing experience.

3:00PM - 5:00PM

Carols Around the Tree

Students, Fellows, alumnae, staff and friends, together with their families, are warmly invited to an exciting programme of music and readings around the Christmas tree at Lucy cavendish College.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Camerata Musica Cambridge: Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano

One of Europe's most exciting pianists gives an all-Beethoven programme on a magnificent 1816 Broadwood 'Grand pianoforte' - a piano almost identical to Beethoven's own.

7:30PM - 10:00PM

Rock Choir

Rock Choir is much more than a choir – it’s a multi layered singing experience.