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 in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso with exhibition curator Habda Rashid.
FREE, come along
During museum opening times: Wed - Sat 10am - 4pm this half-term
Pick up our Reindeer Escape trail at the Polar Museum this half-term. Using UV torches, you will able to see in UV light, just like reindeer do! Using your new UV sight, find the letters to help spell out the name of predator that wants to eat you for dinner!
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.
Please book your FREE ticket in advance - as numbers are limited.
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.
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.
