{"id":1828,"date":"2016-05-03T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/futuremagazine.dexterthemes.com\/?page_id=1828"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:55:45","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The University of Cambridge Museums is a consortium of the eight University Museums and the Botanic Garden.<\/h2>\n<p>Our collections span four and a half billion years of natural objects, artefacts and art. They are centres of discovery for everyone, and essential research collections for students and academics.<\/p>\n<p>We have a particular focus on engaging new and existing audiences and want to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make everyone feel welcome in our venues.<\/li>\n<li>Inspire curiosity for our collections, giving audiences access to new, or deeper ways of thinking about themselves, their communities, societal challenges and our world<\/li>\n<li>Continue to be a vital and responsive resource to our local communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University of Cambridge Museums is an Arts Council England funded National Portfolio Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy reading updates from the museums and Botanic Garden about our collections, museum life, audience engagement and digital work.<\/p>\n<p>If you like what you read, please sign-up to the blog and do share with friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Cambridge Museums is a consortium of the eight University Museums and the Botanic Garden. Our collections span four and a half billion years of natural objects, artefacts and art. They are centres of discovery for everyone, and essential research collections for students and academics. We have a particular focus on engaging new and existing audiences and want&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/about-us\/\" class=\"excerpt-more hide-for-medium\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7364,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[159],"class_list":["post-1828","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}