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Critical Co-Lab: Habda Rashid and Ekow Eshun
Critical Co-Lab: Habda Rashid and Ekow Eshun
In Conversation: Interventions and Looking Afresh
Sport and the Media Revolution
In Conversation: Spirituality and Technology
CANCELLED: How we fell in love with Italian food
CANCELLED: Jewish food and the Passover rite
CANCELLED: Curator’s introduction to Virtue, Vice & the Senses: Prints 1540 – 1650
CANCELLED: Cupid and Psyche: Scientific insights into the painting behind Inspire
A vision of the universe: The Astronomicum Caesarium of 1540
A love story for the Medici? The story of Cupid and Psyche on Florentine Renaissance wedding chests
Reconstructions in the exhibition Sharpening Perceptions
Food service by the book in early modern Europe
Chicken or Pastirma? Fine dining Ottoman style
Art and simulation in philosophy
‘The Season of Spiritual Warfare’: Fasting in early modern Europe
Inspire project
The food of Christmas past
The fragrance of lotus: Archaeology and sensorial experimentation in Afghanistan caves 1960s – 1980s
Good enough to eat? Preparing ceramic fake food for the Feast & Fast exhibition
Curators’ introduction to Feast & Fast
Picturing what cannot be seen: Visualising sound within 19th-century acoustics
Modes of listening: How what we see greatly impacts what we hear
Sex and death: Looking at Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia in the age of #MeToo
From the exotic to the everyday: Changing attitudes to the pineapple
Isabella’s wish: patronage and production of Northern Netherlandish altarpieces (c.1520)
Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo (Part 2): The ‘Pop-Up’ museum outreach project
Giovanni Belzoni and the allure of Egypt
City of beasts: The forgotten sights, sounds and smells of Georgian London
Giovanni Belzoni and the allure of Egypt
The early modern revolution of colour palettes on ceramics with over-glazed painting
Artist Unknown: Stories from the University of Cambridge Museums and Collections
Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo: A new collaboration for the future
Can you handle it? Using 3D prints to improve museum access
Revealed in the Hayley Papers: Literary, artistic and domestic gossip from late 18th and early 19th century cultural life
Coin collecting and politics in the Tudor age
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection
Celebrating the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria and our recent acquisition of her bust by Alfred Gilbert
Some scraps of paper: Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale at The Fitzwilliam Museum
Dressed up like a Julius Caesar: Late Stuart coin design
Curator’s guide to the Beggarstaffs exhibition
Lenten fasting and Easter feasting: The food of Easter in early modern Europe
Discovering Islamic geometric design
Design Evolution: Highlights from the Keatley Trust collection
Small paintings, big discoveries: Recent research on Isaac Oliver’s miniatures
Whistler & Nature: Looking both ways from the industrial to the horticultural
Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009 – 2019
Love and politics: A wedding gift for a medieval duchess
The Attic inscriptions in The Fitzwilliam Museum
A temple to marble: The Main Entrance landing restoration and new displays
The Trojan War: Then and now
Colonisations and landscape successions: Later prehistoric and Roman North West Cambridge
Coin Coinage in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its numismatic legacy
An introduction to the collection of Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, and the exhibition Collecting and Giving
The odd couple: Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke
Virginia Woolf: The Curator’s perspective
Kettle's Yard 50th anniversary In Focus: William Scott
Reused coffins from ancient Egypt: Tomb robbery or recycling of materials?
Will you fade? Will you perish? Virginia Woolf and the art of still life
An Arts and Crafts jeweller: The life and work of Fred Partridge (1877-1945)
The Art of Ithell Colquhoun: Symbols from the magian world
Eileen Cooper RA in conversation with Dr Meredith Hale
Extreme sculpture: Politics and monuments in Germany 1918 -1945
The Pastons: From poverty to wealth and back again
Rooms of their Own: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Eddy Sackville-West
“Thinking in common”: A community of creativity
Mychael Barratt in conversation with Jane Stobart
The tea bowl: East and West
Architect Owen Jones, the Alhambra, and The Grammar of Ornament
Curator’s introduction to Designers & Jewellery 1850 – 1940: Jewellery & Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum
Robert Hamilton Lang and the decipherment of Cypro-Syllabic
From memory: Nigel Hall, sculpture and drawing
Sleeping by John Everett Millais: "The most beautiful picture the artist ever painted"
A Michelangelo discovery: Project update and conclusions
A Michelangelo discovery: Project update and conclusions
The botanical art of Clarence Bicknell
From plant to painting - the journey of making a botanical painting
Making production: The journey through an artwork
Joining the hemispheres: A potter's response to the Korean Full Moon Jar in the British Museum
In conversation: 2 on 3 dimensions
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery - a curator's perspective
Remembering the dead: The art of stelae in Egypt’s First Intermediate Period
Flux: Parian unpacked
My ceramic practice, and Moon Jars for the 21st century
A passion for pottery: a photographer’s dream job
A lifelong project in clay: Virtues of Unity
From ‘Do Not Touch’ signs to barriers: can we successfully provide access without compromising preservation principles?
Hide and seek: medieval creatures on the manuscript page
RA250 at the Fitz: academicians celebrating 250 years of the Royal Academy
The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection
Queer stories at the Museum
Discovering writing in Bronze Age Greece
The story of Domenico Veneziano's altarpiece for La Chiesa di Santa Lucia de' Magnoli, Florence
Degas's legacy
The Alfred Wallis factor in St Ives art
Elephants and emperors: Elephants in Indian painting and culture
Silver, gold and copper for India’s money: Ancient to present
Free speech and seditious libel: James Gillray and the crisis of Revolution
Wonderwalls: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in art
Idylls and oaks: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe's prints after Gessner
Imagining the holy land in the Italian Renaissance home
Madonnas & Miracles: The inside story
Domestic devotions: Thinking with things
Porcelain
Making Waves and Sea to Shore Images inspired by the sea across five centuries, from the Fitzwilliam Museum and Kettle’s Yard
Family reading and praying in the Italian Renaissance home
A pious home? Italian Renaissance devotional jewellery and amulets
Introduction to Madonnas and Miracles
Painting and narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin
Images of women in the ancient world
Mission to China With reference to the ‘Wedgwood’ vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Houghton Hall: Three centuries of privacy and display
Queer British Art 1861 – 1967 An exhibition at Tate Britain
For heaven's sake Stanley! Stanley Spencer in the Fitzwilliam Museum
The Dollar: Rise of the global currency
From Cambridge to Athens: The Benaki Museum collection of Chinese ceramics
Realisation: Susan Aldworth and Jane Dixon in discussion
The Castle Howard cabinets and other bicentenary acquisitions
Colour and colourants in manuscripts: The role of technical analyses
Behind the scenes at the exhibition: Creating COLOUR
Conserving manuscripts for COLOUR
Kettle's Yard 50th anniversary In Focus: Lucie Rie
The history of Gallery 3 and its Parthenon frieze
Moving pictures: Mathematical reconstruction of painting
Art on film: When movement stops
The art and science of red
Inside the Macclesfield Psalter
Lord Fitzwilliam and his passion for prints
Colour and Meaning
Van Dyck and Reynolds: Two giants of portraiture
Calibrating the colour of Mars
Collaborating on a manuscript: Creation, rediscovery, conservation
The colours of illuminated manuscripts
An introduction to the Dr John Shakeshaft collection of British studio pottery
The Goodison gifts of contemporary British craft
Turner, Goya and Cornelius in 1816
Furniture at the Fitz: New arrivals
Rescuing Sebastiano del Piombo’s Adoration of the Shepherds
Hill Arches and other works by Henry Moore at the Fitz
Three stories of money in the Age of Discovery
Detecting the work of painters and scribes on ancient Egyptian coffins
Egyptian coffins: Exploring the painter’s craft
Death comes as the end: Burial practice in ancient Thebes
Coins and currency in the crusader states
Italian Renaissance objects handling session
Natural hair past & present
‘No Smiling Please’: Northcote Thomas’ ethnographic portraits of southern Nigeria
John Smart Senior’s miniature self-portrait on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum
The stone of heaven: the scientific study of ancient Chinese jades
Myths and realities of food consumption and cuisine in Ancient Greece
An introduction to Origins of the Afro Comb exhibition
Display, piety and dedication: the re-use of coins in later medieval England
The genies on the stairs: a 3,000 year journey from Assyria to Cambridge
Searching for Sikh Soldiers on British Medals
'Composed of the same materials': dressing alike in Victorian art
Swiss depictions of regional costumes and landscapes: 1762-1840
Walruses in uniform: researching the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Can Guido Reni still speak to us? Two Reni paintings through 17th and 21st century eyes
A biblical masterpiece of storytelling and its interpretation
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Nubia, Kush and the Land of the bowFree but booking essential
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Patchwork Tales
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season An introduction to the Nubian collection
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Exhibition: Nubia - Past and Present - 5 – 31 Oct
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season From Kemet to Egypt
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Images of Africans in the Ancient World
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Nile Valley
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season The Nativity and the Iconography of the Black King
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Black to Kemet: Placing Egypt back in AfricaThe exhibition is open until 20 October
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) History Season Art and the African Diaspora
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Dr Victoria Avery, Curator.
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