11 - 14 yrs
Work with staff and artists on a special Arts Award project to develop and test creative ideas for an upcoming exhibition on the theme of food, feasting and fasting. Find out about what goes on behind the scenes at the Museum and share your own mini-exhibition at the end of the week.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest please tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk.
Image: Pierre Auguste Renoir, Apples and walnuts (detail)
11 - 13 yrs
Find your Fitzwilliam favourites or discover something new to inspire your very own artwork. There is no set theme but lots of lovely art materials – join us and get creative in the Studio with artist Iona McCuaig.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest please tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
Drop-in on the first Saturday of the month and join us for activities and art-making on the theme of 'circus tricks'.
Plus
Family tours
Tours last 30 minutes and leave at 14.00 and 15.00. Recommended for children aged 5+.
Story time
Storytelling lasts 30 minutes and leaves at 14.30 and 15.30. Recommended for Children under 5.
Number restrictions apply for both, please collect a sticker from the Courtyard Entrance.
Drop-in on the first Saturday of the month and join us for activities and art-making on the theme of 'caring for our museum'.
Plus
Family tours
Tours last 30 minutes and leave at 14.00 and 15.00. Recommended for children aged 5+.
Story time
Storytelling lasts 30 minutes and leaves at 14.30 and 15.30. Recommended for Children under 5.
Number restrictions apply for both, please collect a sticker from the Courtyard Entrance.
0 - 2 yrs
This gently structured session allows babies to discover aspects of the collection through sensory exploration of colour, shapes, texture, sounds and movement. Look at the galleries together and get creative in the Studio.
Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult throughout the duration of the workshop.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest please tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
2 - 5 yrs
Exploring art together can be magical. Hear stories about objects in the collection, and make art of your own to take home.
Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult throughout the duration of the workshop.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest please tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
Inspired by the Cycladic figurines of ancient Greece and their influence on modernist sculptors including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, we will create our own sculptures using simple stylised elements to represent the human form.
Meet in Courtyard Entrance. Guide dogs and companions are welcome.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Old Divinity School Lecture Theatre, St John’s College
Doors open: 17.30, Lecture: 18.00
An evening lecture on old Cyprus by Professor Paul A. Cartledge.
Elspeth Owen’s ceramics are found in museum collections all over the world and are all made in her studio in a former cricket pavilion in Grantchester. Elspeth will talk about the centrality of touch in the making and enjoying of pots and there will be an opportunity to handle some of her works. She will seek to place her work politically within the ‘gift economy’, an idea as important for museums as for artists.
Art Talks with Art Fund is a national programme of artist talks around contemporary art in museums across the UK.
