Enjoy the Museum and explore the Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance exhibition at this evening of art, music, workshops, talks and fashion curated by students from Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Join us to see the Garden brought to life after dark with stunning displays and artistic interventions!
The lights will highlight some of the Garden’s most beloved features (such as the Fountain, Lake and Glasshouse Range) and create beautiful experiences around the rest of the landscape.
Our Café will be on the route with warm offerings, and there will also be hot drinks and snacks available halfway round to revive spirits and warm up any chilly fingers!
Bringing together more than 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture and film, Real Families: Stories of Change asks us to consider what makes a family today, and the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of contemporary artists.
By bringing together collections from across the University of Cambridge’s museums, libraries and colleges with loans from around the world, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance asks new questions about Cambridge’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and looks at how objects and artworks have influenced history and perspectives.
Whether it’s your favourite woolly jumper or a 17th-century wooden globe, pests love eating organic materials. This means they are a threat to museum collections. This display showcases objects that have been damaged by pests and explores the behind-the-scenes work that museums do to protect their objects. You can even have a go at identifying real museum pests yourself!
Join us for the opening night of Topos Embodied, an exhibition by artists Justyna Borucka and Cat Vitebsky at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
The unique geological structure of Parian marble allowed ancient sculptors to shape the most sensuous of human forms.
About Cambridge Community Arts
Cambridge Community Arts is a local charity that uses creative arts as a tool for empowerment and social inclusion of adults in Cambridge and Fenland. Offering arts based courses in the community in a safe, friendly environment. To date, 700+ course places have been offered and participants benefit from increased confidence and improved mental health.
New archaeological discoveries are made every year, but not always by archaeologists or in the places you expect. From back gardens to scientific laboratories, the past is everywhere.
Beneath our feet are the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire. Using specific times, places and individuals, this exhibition aims to provide a snapshot of what life might have been like and how we know about it.
Discover Lucie Rie’s ground-breaking and unique ceramic practice, which made her one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century.
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.
FREE, booking required. Each ticket covers 2 people.
Image: Jo Underhill
