| Thu 25 January 2018 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology Landscapes Below celebrates a period of experimental geological map-making in the 19th century, focusing on the use of colour in geological maps and on the development of a visual vocabulary for the new science. |
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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| 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
THE POWER OF WORDS: PUBLIC DEBATE IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
The Wonders of the Peak: Eighteenth Century Geo-Tourism in Derbyshire This talk explores how Derbyshire's limestone landscape was described, painted and purchased in the early modern period. Part of the Landscapes Below Speaker Series at Cambridge University Library. |
