Launching virtual school sessions in a pandemic
We have worked hard at the Museum of Classical Archaeology to adapt and translate most of our usual, pre-covid educational activity to the digital realm. The biggest part of this adaptation was to launch virtual school sessions, offered to both primary schools and secondary schools. The result is schools from across the country being able to engage with the museum…
A six month snapshot
Last month, we marked one year since the introduction of measures to limit the COVID-19 pandemic. Our last update was published in October 2020, just as the University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden (UCM) were prepared to be fully open to the public again for the first time in six months. A return to normality? Not quite. Our pandemic journey…
Free as a bird: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s, First Flight (2015)
The sepia tone of the printing ink used in First Flight, a set of ten etchings of male heads (recently acquired with the invaluable help of The Friends of the Fitzwilliam), brings to mind the rich warmth of an old master drawing or an old photograph. Disparate references and associations are common in Yiadom-Boakye’s work and such diversity – created in…
