Sun 11 February 2018 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
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. |
12:00PM - 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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12:00PM - 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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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection Love is very much in the air in this exhibition, which contains objects alive with the range of emotions that it commands; from admiration and affection, joy and passion, longing and despair, to insults, indifference, grief and remembrance. |
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6:00PM - 6:25PM |
To be performed by Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music, St John’s College) |
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7:30PM - 9:45PM |
City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra concert CCSO plays an all-Russian programme including music by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky |