Wowed by Wisbech
With the North Sea winds whipping up waves on the River Nene, this cold start to the year may seem a strange time to celebrate Wisbech. But here’s one reason – 2018 sees the start of an exciting new partnership between the Wisbech & Fenland Museum and the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM). Why the Wisbech & Fenland Museum? Set…
Crate expectations: curating as a collaborative endeavour
There were crates. That’s all I knew at first. Great big boxes full of scientific instruments sent back from an eclipse expedition sometime in the last century, and never re-opened. As soon as a colleague told me about them, I’d turned over in my mind the possibility of using them as the centrepiece for an exhibition here in the Whipple…
Hide and Seek: Working on medieval beast manuscripts in the Founder’s Library
Abi L. Glen is a PhD student at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Find out more about her time as a Doctoral Partnership intern at the Founder’s Library at the Fitzwilliam Museum… The Founder’s Library at the Fitzwilliam Museum is the ideal place for a jaded PhD student to re-discover the excitement of medieval manuscripts. Madness, mayhem and…
