Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections on a series of new walks.
Join an exciting opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas on objects linked to our current investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement. Join the conversation.
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso with Curator Guy Haywood and artist Errol Lloyd.
The tour will include a conversation with the artist that will explore his involvement in the Caribbean Artists Movement.
FREE, come along
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso with Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Eleanor Ling and exhibition artist Paul Dash.
FREE, come along
Join us at Kettle’s Yard to celebrate the opening of our next exhibition Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso. Explore the galleries after hours and enjoy a drink with friends.
FREE, booking recommended, pay bar
Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated in dialogue with artists Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados), Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) and John Lyons (b. 1933, Trinidad), three important first-generation diaspora Caribbean painters that were working in the UK during the same period that the Kettle’s Yard House and collection was still being established.
Since the 18th century, people have collected rock and minerals. What were their reasons for collecting?
Curated by student intern Guey-Mei Hsu, this display looks at three geology collections and their different makers and functions.
Take a look around the Museum of Classical Archaeology's Cast Gallery, and the dominant impression is that Greek and Roman sculpture is as pale as it is interesting.
But Greek and Roman sculpture was not colourless. In this trail, we explore what difference it might make to see Greek and Roman sculpture with its pigment restored. We also explore the consequences over the centuries of seeing the Greek and Roman world without colour.
From late 13th and early 14th century, the Akan people of southwestern Ghana and southeastern Ivory Coast developed a weighting system to measure gold dust, which was the form of currency. Beyond their transactional use, the importance of goldweights lies in their ability to communicate the multifaceted cultural practices and worldview of the Akan people, but also the underlining systems and structures they created.
Visit the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology galleries after-hours. View their latest exhibition COLOUR: Art, Science and Power and enjoy activities inspired by the themes of the exhibition.
Join Uncomfortable Cambridge for an interactive walking tour to explore the connections between Cambridge and Empire.
Through questions and group discussions the tour will explore local entanglements with the transatlantic slave trade, and ongoing- legacies of imperialism. It will consider the uncomfortable histories surrounding museum collections, and academic pursuits. As well as leading the group to reflect on current issues of equality, history and memory, and how easy it is to escape objectivity.
