Join art historian Anne Lyles and curator Jane Munro for a unique in-person tour of Hockney's Eye: The art and technology of depiction, focussing on how earlier artists used optical devices to draw.
Students and under 18s can contact us directly to request free tickets, please email tickets@museums.cam.ac.uk.
Helena g Anderson is a photographer and designer based in Cambridgeshire. In March 2016, she developed Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (RHS), a condition that causes facial paralysis. Told by consultants that a full recovery was unlikely, Helena retreated within herself, struggling to come to terms with the news. “I felt empty, filled only with disbelief,” she says.
Helena g Anderson is a photographer and designer based in Cambridgeshire. In March 2016, she developed Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (RHS), a condition that causes facial paralysis. Told by consultants that a full recovery was unlikely, Helena retreated within herself, struggling to come to terms with the news. “I felt empty, filled only with disbelief,” she says.
Join the exhibition curators for a unique in-person introductory tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum portion of Hockney's Eye, an exhibition exploring David Hockney’s interactions with artists of the past and with technologies of viewing, both past and present.
Come and see the newly discovered fossil of Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to have ever lived.
On display will be the partial remains of this 2.6m long animal along with new information the Museum has learnt from the discovery.
Using wildlife of the past to guide conservation of the future
This exhibition will use UK butterfly specimens from our collections to showcase the natural world and environmental change. It highlights the research that conservationists today are undertaking to reverse long-term declines, including people based here in the Museum.
To celebrate International Women's Day 2022, the Museum of Zoology will be joined by a panel of four amazing female scientists introducing their research and answering your questions.
Panellists include:
Dr Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Senior Research Associate and Group Leader, researching the evolutionary origins of complex structures in the vertebrate head.
Join Cambridge-based architect Rolfe Kentish for this online talk which explores the restoration of the historic North-lit Anchor Studio in Newlyn, Cornwall.
Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum was published in 1540. The product of 8 years of work, it is a complex book with many interactive wheel diagrams, also known as volvelles or Apian wheels, that allowed the user to calculate the positions of the planets as they moved around the central earth. The book, published only three years before Nicolaus Copernicus’ treatise that positioned the sun at the centre of the universe, draws on a millenia of scientific knowledge and represents the pinnacle of sixteenth century print making.
