Megan Rooney’s paintings have an irresistible life and energy. Each work tells a compelling story, poetically recalling the real, the remembered and the imagined – inviting visitors into their restless and pleasurable worlds. This exhibition includes an immersive mural across all four gallery walls, along with a display new paintings.
This tour is suitable for blind and visually impaired visitors. The tour is delivered in person by members of the Kettle’s Yard Learning Team and will include time within the exhibition spaces.
Join the University of Cambridge Museums team along with the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Museum of Zoology for a tour of birdsong around the Botanic Garden. This tour is suitable for blind and partially sighted visitors.
Companions and assistance dogs are welcome.
To book your place or find out more, please contact us by email: info@museums.cam.ac.uk
Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’
From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?
Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.
Important Information
Tour guides will meet you in the Whale Entrance Hall approx. 5-10 mins before the tour is due to start.
Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’
From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?
Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.
Important Information
Tour guides will meet you in the Whale Entrance Hall approx. 5-10 mins before the tour is due to start.
Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’
From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world?
Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology.
Important Information
Tour guides will meet you in the Whale Entrance Hall approx. 5-10 mins before the tour is due to start.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
How do labels and categories affect the stories we choose to tell, or how we connect with each other? How do they affect our interaction with our natural world, and how we imagine the future?
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
How do labels and categories affect the stories we choose to tell, or how we connect with each other? How do they affect our interaction with our natural world, and how we imagine the future?
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
How do labels and categories affect the stories we choose to tell, or how we connect with each other? How do they affect our interaction with our natural world, and how we imagine the future?
Recent understandings of the impact of human activity on the systems of the planet have highlighted the ways in which nature and humans are deeply entangled, calling the often extractive character of our relationship to the Earth into question.
Taking these ideas as her starting point, artist Rona Lee has created two new works, informed by research in the Sedgwick Museum’s archives and installed in the Whewell Mineral Gallery, that challenge the ways in which we normally view the items displayed there.
- Read more about Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden
This year’s theme is ‘Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden’, which invites visitors to capture and showcase the Garden’s heritage landscape and diverse plant collection, including rare and endangered plants from all over the world.
Highlights of the Garden include: Glasshouse Range, Bee Borders, Scented Garden, Rising Path and Systematic Beds, Limestone Rock Garden, Lake and Woodland Garden.
