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Tue 9 August 2022 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer with the Museums

This summer, find fun and adventure close to home with free/ low-cost family events and activities

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Louise Stebbing: A retrospective - 40 years of printmaking

An exhibition of printmaking at the Alison Richard Building.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

Our Place in Space - Guided Tours of the Solar System

Join us for a guided tour of the Our Place in Space sculpture trail of the solar system on the spectacular Midsummer Common.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

From Southwold to Alice Springs: Selected Works from the Collection of Robert Cripps

From Southwold to Alice Springs is a major exhibition of works from the remarkable collection of Robert Cripps, focusing on East Anglian and Australian art.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

1:00PM - 3:00PM

Our Place in Space - Minecraft and Coding Sessions

Our Creative Learning team are coming to Cambridge for a week of Minecraft and coding workshops inspired by Our Place in Space.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

From Southwold to Alice Springs: Selected Works from the Collection of Robert Cripps

From Southwold to Alice Springs is a major exhibition of works from the remarkable collection of Robert Cripps, focusing on East Anglian and Australian art.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

‘Secrets Never To Be Told’

From Gwydir Street to Vancouver – how local history research unravelled an extraordinary story Local resident and former BBC journalist Fiona Chesterton will talk about how she came to write a book about what started as a small amateur research project into a distant cousin called Jessie Underwood.