Unearthing the past
10 November 2004Members of the public are invited to bring their archaeological finds along to the 探花直播 of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this weekend.
Museums awarded funding
13 April 2004Five 探花直播 of Cambridge museums have been awarded nearly half a million pounds worth of funding for redevelopment by the Museums Libraries and Archives council (MLA) Designated Challenge Fund. 探花直播awards have been made through Renaissance in the Regions funding, MLA鈥檚 programme to revitalise England鈥檚 regional museums using the Designation Challenge Fund that awards funding to museums with collections of national importance.
Prehistoric visit for Mayor
22 March 2004 探花直播Mayor of Cambridge visited the 探花直播鈥檚 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Friday (19 March), in the first of a series of visits to help raise the profile of the 探花直播 museums to the people of Cambridge.
Review of the year 2003
23 December 20032003 has been a busy year. We have said goodbye to Professor Sir Alec Broers and welcomed our new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard. Anniversary celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA and the 100th anniversary of economics at Cambridge.
Questioning collections
10 July 2003What is the purpose and future of university collections? These issues were discussed by an international meeting of academics and museum staff at a conference held at Peterhouse, Cambridge this week.
Questioning collections
04 July 2003What is the purpose and future of university collections? These issues were discussed by an international meeting of academics and museum staff at a conference held at Peterhouse, Cambridge this week.
ROCK-ART - image people land knowledge
02 May 2003A new exhibition at the 探花直播 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology highlights rock-art - the ancient pictures made on natural rock surfaces which survive there to this day. On Saturday 3 May the Museum also hosts a research day-meeting on rock-art, a growing field of study within archaeology when the informal CR-aG - Cambridge Rock-art Group, its host - is expected to enlarge and transform itself into a national BR-aG, British Rock-art Group. 探花直播British Rock-Art Group was duly created, and held its first meeting at Newcastle 探花直播 in May 2004.
Cambridge celebrates blueprint of life
25 April 2003Scientists from across the world have gathered in Cambridge today for a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, the breakthrough which many believe to have been the greatest scientific achievement of the twentieth century.
