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To QR, or NFC, that is the question.

Do museum visitors use QR codes? What about near field communication? More importantly, would visitors use those to connect with creative digital content created by our community? Read on! In the summer of 2020 we ran Museum Remix: Unheard, inviting our communities to make new creative content – films, audio and 2D works – inspired by our collections. This all… Read full article

The road to recovery: April-September 2021

Leaves are falling… it’s time to find out what the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) and Botanic Garden have been up to over a busy six months. The UCM museums began April 2021 as we did the April before: closed to the public in accordance with England’s national lockdown. Since then, as the country has begun to emerge from COVID-19… Read full article

Z 7106 A. Square headed brooch set with garnets and decorated with "chip carved" zoomorphic ornament in Salin’s style I.

Masks and Monsters: Decoding Anglo-Saxon Metalwork

Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? A pair of eyes amongst the bracken, a shadowy silhouette in the moonlight, the Queen of England on your toast? The phenomenon is called pareidolia: the product of a paranoid brain. Human minds are constantly searching for patterns and meaning in the world around them; sometimes seeing a face in the trees… Read full article