Global Acquisitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Over the last eighteen months, the Fitzwilliam Museum‘s Department of Applied Arts has acquired objects made by modern and contemporary artists and craftspeople from around the world, in order to enable us to explore more diverse perspectives within our permanent collections and temporary displays. This is part of a Museum-wide initiative, focussing on expanding the core collection to include objects…
Museum Remix at the Museum of Classical Archaeology
In February 2020, the Museum of Classical Archaeology (MOCA) installed an exhibition with an unusual origin. The artworks had been created in just two days. To find out why, we need to go back to September 2019, when MOCA, along with four other University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) invited museum activists, students, volunteers and artists to take part in Museum…
“Magical”: an ongoing partnership with Cambridge Community Arts
What if we could look at the world through someone else’s eyes? What would we see? For three years now, the Museum of Classical Archaeology has been working Cambridge Community Arts to do just that, hosting an exhibition which allows us all to look out through the camera lenses of the learners on their accredited Photography Course. Cambridge Community Arts…
