‘Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’
From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world? Enjoy an LGBTQ+ tour of the Museum of Zoology with volunteer tour guide, Kate.
Indigenous people around the world have responded to missionary religion in different ways. This exhibition tells the story of how Asmat people of Papua, Indonesia, have transformed Catholicism in accordance with their ancestral ritual life.
On display in the Andrews Gallery of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (3 December 2020 - March 2021), enjoy a tour of an exhibition curated by Tom Powell Davis and Sophie Hopmeier with the assistance of MAA Senior Curator Anita Herle.
A representation of the Hindu godess Durga, made in Kolkata in 2007 and worshipped for ten years in the Cambridge Indian Cultural Society's autumn festival, Durga Puja. In 2017 the society commissioned a new idol, and donated the old one to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Ezra, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide at the Museum of Zoology, talks to us about chimpanzees and bonobos, and how being on different sides of the Congo River would lead to key differences in their respective lifestyles.
The painted and restored cast of the Peplos Kore is one of the most provocative pieces in the Museum of Classical Archaeology's Cast Gallery. But why is she so brightly painted? Were all ancient sculptures coloured in such garish ways? And what does seeing her polychromy mean for how we understand classical whiteness?
Watch this video to find out.
