Join us for a special concert in the Kettle’s Yard House where we will be showcasing musical talent from students of the University of Cambridge.
This year’s concert has been programmed by Kettle’s Yard Student Programmer James MacConnachie.
£12 (£5 students), booking recommended
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Programme
Sophie Ellis (Voice) and Eleanor Medcalf (Harp)
Think of a platypus: they lay eggs, produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. Or a marsupial: their babies can climb themselves into a pouch after just a couple of weeks in the womb, and some species can produce young like an endless conveyor belt of reproduction. From platypuses to kangaroos, Australia has some truly astonishing mammals, with incredible, unfamiliar features. But how does the world regard these creatures? And what does that mean for their conservation?
Join us for this talk by Jack Ashby, Assistant Director, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Visit the Museum of Zoology for fun hands-on activities, including making your own clay pot to take home plus trails exploring British wildlife. Handle real specimens, plan a nature diary, and find new ways to engage with and support local wildlife. Then add to our ‘Helping Nature Help Us’ installation, by adding your reflections and pledges to spend more time outdoors and protect our amazing natural world in preparation for Earth Day in April.
We are delighted to welcome Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History from the University of Cambridge for this talk which will be held in person and also livestreamed from the Museum of Zoology.
Join project curator Abigail Baker on a tour of 'Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean’ where she will share her exclusive highlights from the exhibition.
Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.
This group exhibition is based on the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-chia (1929 – 1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery which he founded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian’s Wall.
Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades. Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery will feature more than 100 works, considering afresh the singular nature of Rie’s achievement, from functional tableware to elegant bowls and vases decorated with sgraffito lines and expressive glazes.
Museums like ours contain specimens that belonged to scientific heroes such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, who developed the answers to the question of how species evolved. Their stories have been well told; however, they did not work alone. What’s often missing from the histories are the countless local and Indigenous experts who contributed so much to our understanding of the natural world, by collecting specimens for the likes of Darwin and Wallace.
