Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time.
Food defines us as individuals, communities, and nations: we are what we eat and, equally, what we don’t eat. When, where, why, how and with whom we eat are crucial to our identity. Feast & Fast presents novel approaches to understanding the history and culture of food and eating.
This exhibition of art made by primary school children celebrates the creativity of local schools and teachers and champions the on‐going importance of cultural learning for young people at a time when the arts in schools are increasingly under threat.
Our free snowdrop trail, available at the Garden’s ticket offices, will guide you to the Garden’s snowdrop ‘hot spot walking routes’ where you’ll see our snowdrops growing and discover more about snowdrop science, history, folklore and cultivation from information panels in these areas.
In this exhibition of contemporary works, artist Debbie Loftus explores the resonance of shattered fragments and fractured lines within the harmonious flowing arabesques of the Parthenon frieze.
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, The Polar Museum, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum of Classical Archaeology
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
The Museum does not have an entrance on the road. Find them inside the Sidgwick Site.
22/02/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join New Geographies artist Marcus Coates for this session in the House at Kettle’s Yard which will use meditative techniques to access the imagination and find new approaches to solving problems.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us for a creative and playful debate on the themes of Linderism led by Circuit, Kettle’s Yard’s young people’s group.
FREE, all welcome, come along
Kettle’s Yard student music programmer Naomi Warburton has curated this years Student Music series, performed by University of Cambridge students.
Inspired by pieces in the Kettle’s Yard collection, recorder player Sophie connects newly composed and improvised segments of music with works from across centuries and continents to create a unified story of struggle, flight and liberation.
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
Please note that the Museum is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
which is part of Cambridge University
The Museum is accessed via the departments door on Free School Lane.
28/02/2020
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
What better way to spend your extra leap day than drawing in the Kettle’s Yard House? Join us for a chance to explore the collection, taking inspiration for sketches, followed by artist led activities to extend the possibilities of your drawing.
Kettle’s Yard student music programmer Naomi Warburton has curated this years Student Music series, performed by University of Cambridge students.
Cambridge University’s premier A Capella group, Cadenza, perform their own arrangements and mash-ups of pop and jazz hits.
Join us for the second in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition. The talk will led by the curators of ‘Feast and Fast’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum: Vicky Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Melissa Calaresu, Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge.
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
The Museum does not have an entrance on the road. Find them inside the Sidgwick Site.
07/03/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
Please use the Courtyard Entrance
07/03/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.
Join us at 1.30pm for a talk, and drop in after 2pm for an informal show-and-tell with Kettle’s Yard Archivist Frieda Midgley, Curatorial Assistant Eliza Spindel, and Jim and Helen Ede’s granddaughter Jane Adams.
John Luther Adams is an American counter-cultural hero. In the 1970s he dropped out of mainstream Californian life and vanished into the Alaskan wilderness, but in 2014 his originality was finally acknowledged when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Cassandra Miller’s Warblework contains dreamy transcriptions of Canadian birdsong and Kaare Husby’s 2nd String Quartet is a beautiful cacophony of avian melodies. But is that really Bartok in a concert of ‘new music’? All will be revealed…
Murray Edwards College
Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
CB3 0DF
14/03/2020
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
£10 (£5 concessions), booking required
Join us for a new performance with music and dance in collaboration with the New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards College.
£10 (£5 concessions), booking required.
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
Please note that the Museum is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
which is part of Cambridge University
The Museum is accessed via the departments door on Free School Lane.
14/03/2020
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Entrance to the Museum is free. Booking essential for performance.
See our exhibitions after-hours and join us for culinary and theatrical experiment with a performance of Food and Feuds: Two cooks of Hexham, written by Fiona Ellis.
Join us for the third in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition.
The talk will led by Alyce Mahon, Reader in Modern and Contemporary History of Art, University of Cambridge.
Join us for a workshop inspired by the Commonplace Books that artist Linder creates for each major artwork, artist Iona McCuaig will teach simple book binding techniques, to produce a book that you will begin to fill with material inspired by the House, collection and exhibition.
Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us for the fourth in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition.
The talk will led by Steven Connor, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge.
Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.
Join us for a pot-pourri making workshop with Anna Taylor from Anna’s Flower Farm.
Inspired by Jim Ede’s own special recipe for pot-pourri in the Kettle’s Yard House, and inspired by Linder’s recreation of it, this practical workshop will teach you how to create the perfect pot-pourri.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio and come and make some art. An open invitation to all creatively minded people, aged 16+. Spend the afternoon working on new projects with us, get inspired by the Kettle’s Yard collection or exhibition, or just share ideas with others.
This concert is a complete performance of Juliet Fraser’s latest solo album (on Huddersfield Contemporary Records) – four pieces all composed for her spectacular voice with only the accompaniment of electronics.
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
Please use the Courtyard Entrance
04/04/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join artist Lucy Steggals and our community collaborators for the next iteration of #Ooh0. The Kettlers and Lucy will be exploring perfume and performance in this drop-in event.
Artist led workshops for families.
Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.
Sit, relax and enjoy soundscapes and artworks inspired by the sky. Open House artists in residence Wright & Vandame have been exploring space and wellbeing over the past year with local community groups in North Cambridge.
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
Please note that the Museum is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
which is part of Cambridge University
The Museum is accessed via the departments door on Free School Lane.
17/04/2020
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Join us for the fifth in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition.
The talk will led by Frank Bowles, Superintendent at Cambridge University Library.
Meet Open House artists in residence Wright & Vandame. Following an inspiring year in North Cambridge, find out about their research and their ideas on socially engaged art, as they reflect at the close of their residency.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Artist led workshops for families.
Join us in our new Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops all day. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers for as long as you like between 12 and 4pm.
Join us for a screening of the English premiere of Linder’s film The Bower of Bliss produced in 2018 for Glasgow Women’s Library. The screening is followed by a range of creative activities inspired by Linderism and led by Circuit, Kettle’s Yard’s young people’s group.
Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.
Join us for the sixth in a series of talks exploring Linder’s multi-sensorial work taking place across Kettle’s Yard as part of our Linderism exhibition.
The talk will led by Amy Tobin, curator of Linderism.
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
The Museum does not have an entrance on the road. Find them inside the Sidgwick Site.
25/04/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Gently shimmering and unfolding like a sustained whisper, the music of Morton Feldman is like nothing else. Tonight, Philip Thomas will play Feldman’s final masterpiece, Palais de Mari.
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
Please use the Courtyard Entrance
02/05/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
Please note that the Museum is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
which is part of Cambridge University
The Museum is accessed via the departments door on Free School Lane.
15/05/2020
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
The Museum does not have an entrance on the road. Find them inside the Sidgwick Site.
23/05/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
The Museum does not have an entrance on the road. Find them inside the Sidgwick Site.
06/06/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
Please use the Courtyard Entrance
06/06/2020
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
Brian Ferneyhough’s music pushes performers to the very edge of technical and expressive limits. When it’s played by Kathryn Williams, his music transforms into jaw-dropping physical theatre. For this one-off collaboration, Kathryn’s fearless style will perfectly complement Bastard Assignments – four composer/performers whose appearances over the last few years have left audiences shocked, amused and ultimately amazed.
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
Please note that the Museum is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
which is part of Cambridge University
The Museum is accessed via the departments door on Free School Lane.
12/06/2020
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Free
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in Cambridge collections.
An exhibition of copies of paintings in The Fitzwilliam Museum made by students at the Hamilton Kerr Institute as part of their training to become painting conservators.
