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Mon 2 September 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the Museums: mosaic madness

Make your very own Roman mosaic

Tue 3 September 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the Museums: big draw on tour

Our Museums are on tour! Join us for a drawing workshop inspired by the Library Reading Challenge “The Creepy House”

7:15PM - 8:15PM

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals

Wed 4 September 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight COSMO 2013

The COSMO series is one of the major venues of interaction between cosmologists and particle physicists. The year 2013 being the year of the first release of cosmological results from the Planck satellite, we consider it more important than ever to encourage such interactions between the fields.

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday.

Thu 5 September 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Fri 6 September 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

London underground photo exhibtion

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Making love, making gender, making babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

This conference will allow a comparison of the political and ethical debates over medical and cultural innovations in ‘sex’, ‘gender’ and ‘reproduction’ over the period 1950-1970.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work by Tony Rothon and Sarah Nutley

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Jane Joseph: imprints

This survey exhibition of prints is drawn from over the last 30 years and includes folio works made in collaboration with contemporary writers.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

Sat 7 September 2013 9:00AM - 4:30PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Making love, making gender, making babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

This conference will allow a comparison of the political and ethical debates over medical and cultural innovations in ‘sex’, ‘gender’ and ‘reproduction’ over the period 1950-1970.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work by Tony Rothon and Sarah Nutley

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Jane Joseph: imprints

This survey exhibition of prints is drawn from over the last 30 years and includes folio works made in collaboration with contemporary writers.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

11:00AM - 3:00PM

Love lavender

Fill your house with the smell of lavender. We'll be making lavender hearts, bags and bundles and giving you lots of tips on how to grow and harvest it.

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

Family first Saturdays

On the first Saturday of each month visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point (Courtyard Entrance) and collect drawing materials, activities and trails to use throughout the Museum, exploring a variety of themes.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Summer at the Museums: family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect drawing materials, activities and trails to use throughout the Museum

Sun 8 September 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural journey

Exhibition of photographs, plans and models showing the ways in which Denys Lasdun’s original vision for Fitzwilliam College has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work by Tony Rothon and Sarah Nutley

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Summer at the Museums: build it!

Fun for families taking place throughout the summer holidays!

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Jane Joseph: imprints

This survey exhibition of prints is drawn from over the last 30 years and includes folio works made in collaboration with contemporary writers.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.