We are delighted to welcome Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History from the University of Cambridge for this talk which will be held in person and also livestreamed from the Museum of Zoology.
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for The Power Walk series - an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
Museum Remix is back! This two-day workshop gives you the opportunity to create provocative and creative responses to our objects, exploring the theme of Power and Memory.
Your challenge
This year, we're creating audio. How can we retell the stories of our objects in creative new ways through sound?
Working with a team, you'll investigate the collections and create new interpretation, which we'll make accessible to our audiences via digital gallery labels and online.
Do you have an interesting idea for an event or activity at the Museums? Do you want to talk about and see change, bring fresh perspectives?
Well, so do we. This is the space for you!
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections on a series of new walks.
Join an exciting opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas on objects linked to our current investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement. Join the conversation.
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso with Curator Guy Haywood and artist Errol Lloyd.
The tour will include a conversation with the artist that will explore his involvement in the Caribbean Artists Movement.
FREE, come along
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso with Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Eleanor Ling and exhibition artist Paul Dash.
FREE, come along
Join us at Kettle’s Yard to celebrate the opening of our next exhibition Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso. Explore the galleries after hours and enjoy a drink with friends.
FREE, booking recommended, pay bar
Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated in dialogue with artists Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados), Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) and John Lyons (b. 1933, Trinidad), three important first-generation diaspora Caribbean painters that were working in the UK during the same period that the Kettle’s Yard House and collection was still being established.
Since the 18th century, people have collected rock and minerals. What were their reasons for collecting?
Curated by student intern Guey-Mei Hsu, this display looks at three geology collections and their different makers and functions.
