Thomas Chandler's collage is inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum's portraits of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines by Carlo Dolci.

Finch and Baines, both trained physicians, met while studying at Cambridge in the 1640s. They were inseparable throughout a relationship that lasted 36 years, and were buried together in a joint monument in Christ's College.

A Song Incomplete

Collage with paper and paint

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

Our second Live Q&A for Museum Remix: Unheard is your chance to ask our museum experts your questions about the figurine from Naukratis and the British Sign Language alphabet plate.

Live on YouTube: Tuesday 28 July, 12.30pm

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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

Listen: Dive into the world of tiny marine creatures, Foraminifera

Listen to a poem giving voices to the unknown subject of two 19th century photographs

John Hodgson's poem Transition is inspired by a pair of prehistoric necklaces unearthed during excavations led by pioneering archaeologist Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968) at Mount Carmel in Israel in the 1930s.

The necklaces are now in the collection of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Garrod became the first female professor in the history of the University of Cambridge.

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...