This exhibition integrates insights from the arts, humanities and the sciences, bringing together extraordinary objects and artworks from different times and places. COLOUR showcases remarkable and diverse collections from across the University of Cambridge museums, libraries and colleges.
There are many famous women in the history of science: Rosalind Franklin, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Caroline Herschel, and numerous others, about whom we are learning more all the time. Less well known are the ‘craftswomen’ who made instruments for measuring, modelling and investigating the world.
This new exhibition is the first of its kind to examine the interplay between money, power and dissent over the last 200 years – with a key strand of the show exploring the role of the individual in protesting for rights and representation.
From the radicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, like Thomas Spence and the Suffragettes, to current artists and activists, such as Aida Wilde and Hilary Powell, the works on display show how money has been used to promote social and economic equality or satirise those in power.
When Charles Darwin encountered live platypuses and other Australian mammals, he claimed that – compared to the rest of the world’s animals – they were so strange that one might think “two distinct Creators must have been at work”.
Join curator Richard Kelleher on a tour of Defaced! Money, Power, Conflict, where he will share his exclusive highlights from the exhibition.
Free tickets available on request for students, university staff and companions of guests with disabilities, please email tickets@museums.cam.ac.uk
Join us for an in depth look at the illuminated manuscripts on display in the Rothschild Gallery this autumn. All from medieval Britain, they tell the story of 500 years of creativity and innovation, revealed by the scientific and historical research of our MINIARE team.
This event will be taking place at the Museum and will also be livestreamed.
Hilary Powell, artist and contributor to the Defaced! exhibition, talks about her artistic practice: making visible visceral hidden stories and structures, combining material and meaning in collective acts of salvage and experimentation. Her work plays with ideas of value - who, what and where society overlooks, and why.
Join curator Richard Kelleher for an exclusive introduction to the exhibition Defaced!, an exploration of the fascinating yet conflictive relationship between money, authority, and protest.
This event will be taking place at the Museum and will also be livestreamed.
Artist Kaitlin Ferguson is mid-way through her CoLAB residency. Drop in and see how things are progressing, what thoughts and reflections other visitors to CoLAB have shared and what has been created so far.
Artist Kaitlin Ferguson has transformed the Clore Learning Studio into a creative research lab and would love for you to join her. You will learn new art techniques and skills and explore new ways of creative thinking in a safe and supported space.
Drop in anytime from 12-3pm to explore CoLAB and get stuck into a fun activity exploring ideas about accessibility and academic research in the city.
This open afternoon is for children and adults. Activities are FREE and open to all
FREE, drop in
