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Thu 19 September 2024 10:00AM - 4:00PM

Autumn Art Adventure

Our Autumn Art Adventure is back!

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight Hidden Histories

Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College

70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college,

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Megan Rooney: Echoes & Hours

This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf

An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain

An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory.

4:30PM - 6:00PM

Bringing the Ancestors Home: how Cambridge collections can support repatriation using osteobiographies

Book your place for the talk ‘Bringing the Ancestors Home: how Cambridge collections can support repatriation using osteobiographies’ where you’ll have the opportunity to hear from members of the Duckworth Laboratory and Indigenous communities from Australia and Papua New Guinea about collaborative research and current issues around collections and repatriation.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Participatory Textile Practices (A Roundtable)

Join a roundtable with four speakers who have great experience of community-led, collaborative, and participatory textile art making.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Participatory Textile Practices (A Roundtable)

Join a roundtable with four speakers who have great experience of community-led, collaborative, and participatory textile art making.

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Harmony of The East

We are hosting a classical music concert that blends Persian and Arabic musical traditions.

7:00PM - 11:00PM

The John Martyn Project

The John Martyn Project is a special project comprised of six artists coming together to celebrate the music of John Martyn.