Mon 20 March 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
The curious objects in this exhibition all have a part to play in telling the story of the Library, and form a cabinet of curiosities that opens a window onto the nature of collecting. |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Café Synthetique, CRISPR: genome editing comes of age Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks. |
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Tue 21 March 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
The curious objects in this exhibition all have a part to play in telling the story of the Library, and form a cabinet of curiosities that opens a window onto the nature of collecting. |
10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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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 |
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Wed 22 March 2017 | 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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12:00PM - 8:00PM |
When the Heavens Meet the Earth brings together selected works from Robert Devereux’s contemporary art collection, highlighting his commitment to emerging artists who challenge Western preconceptions of, and hegemony over, cultural expression and contemporary art. |
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5:30PM - 8:30PM |
Highlight Personal Data: Industry and Markets - SODP Covering areas such as personal data as a commodity that fuels $31b of the advertising economy, exchange mechanisms, transactions, industry practices, monetization, dataification, and digitization. Free to all. |
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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. |
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Thu 23 March 2017 | 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
|
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Social Camouflage: From Face-to-Face to Digital Deception Seminar organised by the Technology & Democracy project at CRASSH. |
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6:30PM - 8:00PM |
Duncan Mackay will talk about the wildlife he has encountered on his expeditions to the Arctic. |
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Fri 24 March 2017 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING A one day inderdisciplinary scientific meeting covering Robotics in its different aspects and its varied applications. Organised by Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse. OPEN TO ALL who are interested: |
10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
|
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
When the Heavens Meet the Earth brings together selected works from Robert Devereux’s contemporary art collection, highlighting his commitment to emerging artists who challenge Western preconceptions of, and hegemony over, cultural expression and contemporary art. |
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Sat 25 March 2017 | 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Fairground Model Show One-off chance to see a fairground in miniature in Cambridge |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
When the Heavens Meet the Earth brings together selected works from Robert Devereux’s contemporary art collection, highlighting his commitment to emerging artists who challenge Western preconceptions of, and hegemony over, cultural expression and contemporary art. |
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11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Under the knife at St John’s: A medical history of disease and dissection This exhibition features treasures from the Special Collections at St John’s College that relate to the history of medicine. The manuscripts, incunabula, artefacts and illustrations on display demonstrate medical beliefs and perceptions from as early as the 13th century and feature plenty of potions, plague and pestilence. |
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Sun 26 March 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
When the Heavens Meet the Earth brings together selected works from Robert Devereux’s contemporary art collection, highlighting his commitment to emerging artists who challenge Western preconceptions of, and hegemony over, cultural expression and contemporary art. |