Young people help develop a new Fitzwilliam summer art guide
Working with young people, the Fitzwilliam Museum has created a set of self-led teen specific art guides which will launch this summer. Long summer holidays can offer young people the chance to get out and see new things or revisit those favourite places. The Fitzwilliam Museum is launching a new set of 4 art guides for young people to visit…
Diary of an Exhibition Part 1: a little team with big ideas
Imagining India: Greeks, Romans and the End of the Earth opened at the Museum of Classical Archaeology on 26 June. This is the first of three instalments of my diary of the six months leading up to the exhibition opening. The Museum of Classical Archaeology (MOCA) often hosts temporary exhibitions in our Cast Gallery, but Imagining India was the first…
India Unboxed: Meet the Meteorites?
Our India Unboxed film series continues with the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences‘ puzzling story of the fiery meteorites which were cold to the touch. 157 years ago the people of Dharamsala in Northwest India watched as three meteorites streaked across the sky and crashed into the ground nearby. Despite witnessing nine-foot flames trailing behind the meteorites, the brave locals…
