RA250 at the Fitz
The Fitzwilliam Museum is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, RA250, by inviting seven Royal Academicians with Cambridge connections to choose their favourite object or painting from the Fitz and explain why it is important to them. Visitors to the Museum will be given a souvenir leaflet enabling them to find the works that the seven…
Curiosities at the Bedside
Ruth Clark reflects on a new partnership between the University of Cambridge Museums and the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Dialysis Unit. Starting in May 2017, two days a month the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) have been going to the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Dialysis Unit with curious, historic, fascinating and sometimes just beautiful things from their collections. Moving around the wards, from bedside…
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…
