Museum Remix: Unheard

Museum Remix: Unheard is an experiment in museum storytelling.

This collage shows the arms and torso of the Empress Josephine spliced together with the josephine imperatricis plant, positione where her head would be. Hummingbirds, ladybirds and butterflies flutter around the plant. Josephine faces the sitter, with her right arm slightly raised in front of a golden crown. Her white silk dress has a high empire-line waist and ruffles around the square neckline. The plant has a pyramidal shape with large, serrated leaves from a central stem, and is topped with a bloom of small white flowers. — *Helen Grundy's collage Josephine Hybrid remixes one of the Fitzwilliam Museum's botanical watercolours, Josephinia imperatricis*

Help us remix and retell the stories behind the University of Cambridge Museums' under-explored objects. Create new artwork and we'll share it here on our website, on our social media channels, and from our galleries.

Tell the stories that need to be told

Scroll down to the bottom of this page, and you'll find curators from across our museums presenting a range of objects with unheard stories. Choose one or more and apply your own creative interpretation, either to the object(s) themselves or their histories. Everything else is up to you!

Previously, we've run Sound, Visual Art and Video challenges, but this time the medium is your choice. Want to record an audio play? A mini-podcast, or a poem? A performance piece? A graphic novel? Music? It's entirely up to you.

All we ask is that any video or audio clip be a maximum of 3 minutes long, and an image file be a maximum of 1GB.

Need inspiration? You can find previous Remix artworks on our Discover page.

This opportunity is open until 31 December 2020.

Purple and grey painting showing a woman and a centaur fighting. The figures are fragmentary. The woman, on the left, wears a draped dress and is shown with her left elbow up, knocking the face of the bearded centaur in grey as he attempts to grab at her. Lines behind the pair evoke the impact and force of the woman's arm. — *Female Power by Victoria Chong remixes a sculptural group in the Museum of Classical Archaeology*

Why you should take part

Create new art and interpretation
Tell the stories that need to be heard
Have your work shared on our social media
Be in with the chance for your work to be included in an online exhibition and accessible from the museums' galleries.

What do you need?

A phone or digital camera.
Access to the internet.

Great! Sign me up!

Visit our further information page to find out how to submit.

Why now?

The collections of the University of Cambridge Museums span four billion years and all seven continents. We are good at collecting. But we haven't always been good at listening. George Doji, Museum Remix host, tells us more: