Katy Whitaker's Asylum Zine is inspired by a pair of 18th-century spectacles in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the questions they raise around definitions of disability, how these change over time, and who gets to decide who is disabled and who not.

The zine, or mini magazine, is comprised of layers of a historical Ordnance Survey, text from Historic England's National Heritage List for England (seemingly "objective" and "official" records) and contrasts two institutions for patients with mental il

In July 2020, the Museum Remix: Unheard project challenged the world to creatively reinterpret objects from the University of Cambridge Museums as 2D visual artworks.

Visit our virtual exhibition, curated by artist Lucian Stephenson, to find out more...

Enter the exhibition

In June 2020, the Museum Remix: Unheard project challenged the world to creatively interpret nine objects in the medium of sound.

Journey with us to the windswept Arctic, hear silenced figures given voice, and listen to the ballad of an unsung quarryman...

Watch guest curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum present her favourite submissions

Lewis Harrower and Andrea Elder's soundscape explores the story behind Phyllis Wager's typewriter in the Polar Museum's collection.

When Phyllis Wager travelled to East Greenland as part of a British expedition in 1935, it was so unusual for women to travel to the Polar regions that special permission was needed from the Foreign Office. What can her Remington Home Portable typewriter tell us about her work?
 

Listen to the small sounds of a peaceful afternoon, inspired by a child's plate in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...

The Museum of Life (2019)

Paper, acrylic, pen, pencil

Plates (2019)

Part of a dinner service depicting Queen Anne, Sarah Churchill and Abigail Masham. Pictured also is Queen Anne's husband Prince George of Denmark.