Whether it’s your favourite woolly jumper or a 17th-century wooden globe, pests love eating organic materials. This means they are a threat to museum collections. This display showcases objects that have been damaged by pests and explores the behind-the-scenes work that museums do to protect their objects. You can even have a go at identifying real museum pests yourself!
Join us for the opening night of Topos Embodied, an exhibition by artists Justyna Borucka and Cat Vitebsky at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
The unique geological structure of Parian marble allowed ancient sculptors to shape the most sensuous of human forms.
About Cambridge Community Arts
Cambridge Community Arts is a local charity that uses creative arts as a tool for empowerment and social inclusion of adults in Cambridge and Fenland. Offering arts based courses in the community in a safe, friendly environment. To date, 700+ course places have been offered and participants benefit from increased confidence and improved mental health.
New archaeological discoveries are made every year, but not always by archaeologists or in the places you expect. From back gardens to scientific laboratories, the past is everywhere.
Beneath our feet are the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire. Using specific times, places and individuals, this exhibition aims to provide a snapshot of what life might have been like and how we know about it.
Discover Lucie Rie’s ground-breaking and unique ceramic practice, which made her one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century.
This tour is suitable for blind and visually impaired visitors. The tour is delivered in person, by members of the Kettle’s Yard learning team and will include time within the exhibition spaces.
FREE, booking required. Each ticket covers 2 people.
Image: Jo Underhill
Children from six local schools – Impington Village College, North Cambridge Academy, Sancton Wood, St Mary’s School, The Leys, and Trumpington Community College – were challenged with creating cracking designs for the ancient eggs.
The eggs will be on display during our usual opening hours
Monday - Friday 10.00-17.00
Visit the Museum to see our amazing nature inspired ceramics created by local primary school children. We have been working across the winter with three local primary schools and a ceramic artist, Louise Beale. As part of The Wild Escape project from The Art Fund, we asked children from three local schools to create a clay sculpture related to British wildlife - the results are now all on display in the Museum. Each carefully crafted sculpture has it's own conservation message, devised and drawn onto flags by the children.
In celebration of the display, 'Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain', join us in person for a study day exploring the contributions of Huguenot craftspeople to the visual arts in Britain. Curators and experts will provide new perspectives on silver, ivories, prints and portrait miniatures.
Join us for the opening night of Simulacra, an exhibition by Zachary Eastwood Bloom at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Grab a glass of wine and be one of the first to view this show of new works and works from the artist's archive.
