Join us for an evening of art, talks, crafts, zines, poetry readings, live music, and more!
Inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, ‘Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean’, the theme for Love Art After Dark 2023 is ‘Myths and Legends’ - exploring the power of stories, passed down through generations, to strengthen connections between people and places.
Love Art After Dark 2023 is co-organised with the Fitzwilliam Museum Society and has been made possible by contributions from the Marlay Group Fund.
The history of science is intimately entangled with the history of empire and colonial endeavour. Science today is often built on the work of the past, and has inherited these legacies in both theory and practice.
Join Uncomfortable Cambridge guides as they explore uncomfortable themes present in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and discuss how contemporary science can reckon with its discomforting past.
The history of science is intimately entangled with the history of empire and colonial endeavour. Science today is often built on the work of the past, and has inherited these legacies in both theory and practice.
Join Uncomfortable Cambridge guides as they explore uncomfortable themes present in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and discuss how contemporary science can reckon with its discomforting past.
Join guest artist Suman Gujral and Heong Gallery, Downing College curator Dr Prerona Prasad as we discuss how today's museums can remain relevant and the role they and artists can play in engaging audiences with the concerns of a 21st century global Britain.
Join us at the Polar Museum with author Katherine MacInnes to celebrate International Women's Day this March. Discover the untold stories of the race for the South Pole from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it.
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for The Power Walk series - an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
Curator, Anastasia Christophilopoulou talks about the community engagement project and associated artists involved in the Museum’s new exhibition ‘Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean'.
This talk will also be livestreamed - if you would prefer to join us online, please go to our separate booking page.
Free tickets available on request for students, university staff and companions of guests with disabilities, please email tickets@museums.cam.ac.uk
Join Curator, Anastasia Christophilopoulou, online to learn more about the Museum’s new exhibition and the research project behind it, which began back in 2018. Discover more about the research themes and the overall contribution it has made to its field.
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 our wellbeing and making workshops at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative. Making new crafts, making space for yourself, and making new connections. A chance for you to explore working with different materials and learn new skills with others.
Spanning almost 400 years, this display of prints and drawings explores some of the ways artists have responded to political violence and social injustice. Drawn from collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the display surveys different forms of witnessing: works by artists who had direct experience of horrors, or who grew up in the shadow of terrible events; those who were commissioned to give visual form to the words of others, and those who assimilate in their work the trauma of distant ordeals.
