See the House before regular opening hours, find out more about artists and highlights from the Kettle’s Yard collection and get a brief history of the House and Jim and Helen Ede, creators of Kettle’s Yard.
Tours will begin at 11.15am at the information desk and end at 12noon in the House. When the tour is finished you are welcome to stay in the House and explore our collection and the spaces further at your own pace.
Tickets should be booked in advance online or in person. Online booking will close the day before each tour.
This exhibition, which focuses on researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, looks at the way in which sediments from the sea floor have been used over the last fifty years to discover more about the history of the planet. The exhibition explores the Ice Ages that have dominated climate change over the last one million years and looks at how drilling engineering, mass spectrometry, and the Earth's orbit are all ingredients of this remarkable story.
Learn all about T rex and take a glimpse at what the Sedgwick Museum's collections team do to curate a new collection. On display are a 1/6 scale cast of a T rex skull along with other casts from our new donation. The display compliments our full-sized T rex skull cast already on display in the Museum.
Programme
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words for piano
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for violin and piano, Op.22
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op.11
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47
About the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Tom Poster (piano) will be joined by Savitri Grier (violin), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola) and Laura van der Heijden (cello).
Exhibition Curator, Charlotte Connelly says, "For the communities who have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years, the polar regions are homely, while for European explorers first encounters with the far north felt bleak and difficult. These different perspectives are revealed through the art on display, which spans 200 years and artists from a range of backgrounds."
Opening Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10-4.
Programme
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.1, Op.12
Enescu: Impressions from Childhood
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.9, ‘Kreutzer’
About Savitri Grier
Over the last year Savitri has returned to Wigmore Hall both as soloist, and with the IMS Prussia Cove Ensemble. She has toured throughout China, and collaborated with the renowned sarod players Amaan Ali and Ayaan Ali Bangash at The Times Swarsangam Music Festival in Bangalore.
Programme
Haydn: String Quartet Op.20 No.4
Elgar: String Quartet Op.83
Schubert: String Quartet No.15, D887
About the Piatti Quartet
Prizewinners at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (formerly London), they have performed in all the major venues and festivals around the country as well as concerts throughout the world, with national broadcasts on BBC Radio, ABC (Australia), RTE (Ireland) and France Musique (France).
Programme
R Schumann: Humoreske Op.20
Thomas Adès: Darknesse Visible (1992); Three Mazurkas (2010)
Debussy: Voiles, Feuilles mortes, Feux d’artifice, La cathédrale engloutie, Les Collines d’Anacapri (from Préludes)
Rachmaninov: Sonata No.2, Op.36 (1931 version)
Most of these photographs were not intended as ‘artistic’ images as such, although many have strong aesthetic aspects. Rather, as so often with photographs, it is through accidental serendipity, that each highlights different layers of landscape in an effort to document the speed of change on the peninsula. The aim is to encourage visitors and inhabitants to look again, protect and cherish their shared heritage, monuments and environment.
A new temporary display at the University Museum of Zoology highlights historical depictions of both exotic and more familiar animals.
The ten books are on loan from the Department of Zoology’s Balfour and Newton Libraries here at the University of Cambridge, and each is open at a stunning illustration of one of the animals they describe.
