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Mon 2 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight The body in women's art now: part 3 - ReCreation

ReCreation, is the final exhibition in the critically acclaimed exhibition series, The Body in Women’s Art Now, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, showing at The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge and ROLLO Contemporary Art, London.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

Tue 3 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Splendour & power: imperial treasures from Vienna

Come prepared to be dazzled by this glittering exhibition of jewellery, vessels and small-scale masterpieces from the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, displayed together for the first time in the UK.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Triumph, protection and dreams

The East African headrest in context

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight The body in women's art now: part 3 - ReCreation

ReCreation, is the final exhibition in the critically acclaimed exhibition series, The Body in Women’s Art Now, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, showing at The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge and ROLLO Contemporary Art, London.

10:00AM - 7:00PM

Highlight Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence

Explore the intimacy and beauty of interior scenes by Johannes Vermeer and his seventeenth-century contemporaries - visit www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk for details of evening openings in the final two weeks.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

Wed 4 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Splendour & power: imperial treasures from Vienna

Come prepared to be dazzled by this glittering exhibition of jewellery, vessels and small-scale masterpieces from the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, displayed together for the first time in the UK.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Triumph, protection and dreams

The East African headrest in context

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight The body in women's art now: part 3 - ReCreation

ReCreation, is the final exhibition in the critically acclaimed exhibition series, The Body in Women’s Art Now, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, showing at The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge and ROLLO Contemporary Art, London.

10:00AM - 7:00PM

Highlight Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence

Explore the intimacy and beauty of interior scenes by Johannes Vermeer and his seventeenth-century contemporaries - visit www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk for details of evening openings in the final two weeks.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

Thu 5 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Splendour & power: imperial treasures from Vienna

Come prepared to be dazzled by this glittering exhibition of jewellery, vessels and small-scale masterpieces from the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, displayed together for the first time in the UK.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Triumph, protection and dreams

The East African headrest in context

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight The body in women's art now: part 3 - ReCreation

ReCreation, is the final exhibition in the critically acclaimed exhibition series, The Body in Women’s Art Now, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, showing at The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge and ROLLO Contemporary Art, London.

10:00AM - 7:00PM

Highlight Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence

Explore the intimacy and beauty of interior scenes by Johannes Vermeer and his seventeenth-century contemporaries - visit www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk for details of evening openings in the final two weeks.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The Lawrence room

Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum.

Fri 6 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Splendour & power: imperial treasures from Vienna

Come prepared to be dazzled by this glittering exhibition of jewellery, vessels and small-scale masterpieces from the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, displayed together for the first time in the UK.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Triumph, protection and dreams

The East African headrest in context

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight The body in women's art now: part 3 - ReCreation

ReCreation, is the final exhibition in the critically acclaimed exhibition series, The Body in Women’s Art Now, curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, showing at The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge and ROLLO Contemporary Art, London.

10:00AM - 7:00PM

Highlight Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence

Explore the intimacy and beauty of interior scenes by Johannes Vermeer and his seventeenth-century contemporaries - visit www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk for details of evening openings in the final two weeks.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

Sat 7 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

9:15AM - 4:00PM

The Interior Life: Vermeer and Poetry with Tamar Yoseloff

A writing workshop with a viewing of the exhibition Vermeer's Women

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Splendour & power: imperial treasures from Vienna

Come prepared to be dazzled by this glittering exhibition of jewellery, vessels and small-scale masterpieces from the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, displayed together for the first time in the UK.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Triumph, protection and dreams

The East African headrest in context

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence

Explore the intimacy and beauty of interior scenes by Johannes Vermeer and his seventeenth-century contemporaries - visit www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk for details of evening openings in the final two weeks.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family First Saturday

Free activities for families every first Saturday of the month at the Fitzwilliam Museum

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

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

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Admission: one shilling with Patricia Routledge and Piers Lane

Louis Ling presents in association with Clive Conway Productions. Directed by Christopher Luscombe.

Sun 8 January 2012 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Frozen volcano

Frozen volcano A magnificent exhibition - First sighted by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, Erebus is famous in volcanological circles today for its perpetual lava lake and spectacular (but mild) explosions of magma.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Splendour & power: imperial treasures from Vienna

Come prepared to be dazzled by this glittering exhibition of jewellery, vessels and small-scale masterpieces from the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, displayed together for the first time in the UK.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Triumph, protection and dreams

The East African headrest in context

12:00PM - 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.

12:00PM - 6:00PM

Highlight Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence

Explore the intimacy and beauty of interior scenes by Johannes Vermeer and his seventeenth-century contemporaries - visit www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk for details of evening openings in the final two weeks.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.