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…
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…
