The evening will include pop-up talks and poetry readings providing insight into the exhibition, as well as special tours of the Kettle’s Yard house focused on the flower paintings and arrangements of fresh cut flowers.
A drop-in workshop will take place in the Clore Learning Studio where you can take inspiration from the exhibition and make your own floral-themed artworks. There will also be musical performances throughout the evening.
About the Speaker
Rebecca Birrell is an art historian, writer and curator. Her first book, This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early 20th Century was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. Her second book, a novel, Venus, Vanishing, will be published by Picador in the UK and Henry Holt & Company in the US in 2026. She has occupied curatorial positions at the Charleston Trust, the British Museum and the Jewish Museum.
The event accompanies our current exhibition Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today. Artists Jai Chuhan, Anna Freeman Bentley, Bianca Raffaella and Charlotte Verity on the theme of flower painting now,
We're inviting people affected by Parkinson’s to take part in a short course led by dance for health artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs and inspired by objects, artefacts and artworks from the University of Cambridge Museums
Sessions start with an exploration of museum objects. The stories of these objects inspire the dance session. We end with refreshments and a chance to look again at the objects. The dance is both chair-based and standing, and we invite participants to work at the level that suits them best. Companions are welcome!
Join us to celebrate some of the queer histories of the Sedgwick Museum's collections and people.
The Sedgwick Museum is proud to present its new LGBTQ+ tour as part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries programme.
The Sedgwick Museum is proud to present its new LGBTQ+ tour as part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries programme.
It is hard to say for certain that a 19th century scientist was queer just from their memoirs. It is difficult to know whether they were in a romantic relationship with the ‘secretary’ they lived with, or were they just that – a secretary? Were the two unmarried women who lived together for thirty years really just ‘close friends’? Looking for gender queerness in museum collections can be challenging.
Same-sex desire does not need modern labels and categories in order to exist across time.
From goddesses and ancient myths to powerful emperors explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in amongst the statues and sculptures of the atmospheric Cast Gallery at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
Same-sex desire does not need modern labels and categories in order to exist across time.
From goddesses and ancient myths to powerful emperors explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in amongst the statues and sculptures of the atmospheric Cast Gallery at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
Same-sex desire does not need modern labels and categories in order to exist across time.
From goddesses and ancient myths to powerful emperors explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in amongst the statues and sculptures of the atmospheric Cast Gallery at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
Same-sex desire does not need modern labels and categories in order to exist across time.
From goddesses and ancient myths to powerful emperors explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in amongst the statues and sculptures of the atmospheric Cast Gallery at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
