My Nursery is at the Museum and Garden
What happened when a group of 3 year olds spent a week ‘in residence’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Botanic Garden? Inspired by the ‘My Primary School is at the Museum’ project, educators at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Botanic Garden invited nine children from a local nursery to spend five mornings ‘in residence’. Over the coming weeks and months…
A conversation with… a vodka beetle
This is Part 3 of our series on pests that eat museum collections. We often find the odd vodka beetle larva on our pest traps, but we’ve noticed a few more adult vodka beetles around the Fitzwilliam Museum this year. Conversation with… a vodka beetle Drink? No, thanks. You have an interesting name… I’m actually a brown carpet beetle. My full…
India Unboxed: Heracles at the Museum of Classical Archaeology
Which muscle-bound Greek hero do we have here then? It’s the one and only Heracles – striding manfully through myth and legend and revealing the surprising links between the Classical world and the Indian subcontinent in this new India Unboxed video. India Unboxed is a year-long celebration across the University and city of Cambridge to mark the UK–India Year of…
