Re-connecting with Taonga: Māori in the Museum
The 250th anniversary year of explorer James Cook’s arrival in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand has offered opportunities for the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (MAA) to reflect on the ways we work with Cook voyage collections. The common perception of Cook as a heroic discover of new lands ignores the long histories of Oceanic voyaging, settlement and trade. Skilled…
How do you copy a masterpiece?
Sharpening Perceptions, an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, shows early career conservators’ copies of masterpieces. The copies are displayed side by side with the originals to give insights into how the original paintings were made and what they would have looked like, fresh from the artist’s studio. Sharpening Perceptions: how to copy a masterpiece is an exhibition of copies of…
Rock ChYpPs: putting young people’s objects on display
‘Rock ChYpPS’ is a co-curated temporary exhibition at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. It displays geological objects loaned to the museum from children in the local Cambridge area, and aimed to provide a space for museum staff and local children to meet and connect over geology. The University of Cambridge Museums join the PlayDaze summer programme every year. Run…
