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CGLI members visit the exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage

10 Mar 2017

When Reverend Kenred Smith captured moments of life in the Congo over 120 years ago, he couldn’t have imagined that the photos – now in Cambridge's...

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Youngest Ancient Egyptian human foetus discovered in miniature coffin at the Fitzwilliam Museum

12 May 2016

Tiny coffin excavated at Giza in 1907 is remarkable evidence of importance placed on official burial rituals in ancient Egypt.

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Magna Carta of scientific maps

01 Aug 2015

One of the most important maps of the UK ever made – described as the ‘Magna Carta of geology’ – is to go on permanent public display in Cambridge...

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Kettle's Yard

Last chance to see Kettle’s Yard for two years

18 Jun 2015

Special events on 20 June mark the last weekend that Kettle’s Yard will be open before closing for a major redevelopment.

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥Labours of Herakles

Herakles – a hero for all ages

16 Apr 2015

An exhibition that reimagines Greek hero Herakles as a 19th century colonist in New Zealand will open at the Museum of Classical Archaeology tomorrow...

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Folding ‘Trompe l’oeil’ fan, English, c.1750

How we fell in love with shopping

20 Mar 2015

An exhibition of ‘treasured possessions’ from the 15th to the 18th centuries reveals how we first fell in love with shopping, and takes us back to an...

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Black & White poster (aka Boxers), 1911

Gaudier-Brzeska show marks centenary of his death

05 Mar 2015

From March 17, Kettle’s Yard will present a major exhibition to mark the centenary of the death in the First World War of the French-born sculptor...

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Joyfully I Saw Ten Caribou

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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Polar snow goggles from Discoveries at London’s 2 Temple Place, the first joint exhibition from the  ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge Museums, and the first to be held outside the city.

Major Partner Museum status for UCM

01 Jul 2014

̽»¨Ö±²¥vision of securing Cambridge’s reputation as an international centre of museums excellence received a major boost today when Arts Council England...

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View of Scheveningen Sands by Hendrick van Anthonissen

Whale tale: a Dutch seascape and its lost Leviathan

04 Jun 2014

Earlier this year a conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute made a surprising discovery while working on a 17th-century painting owned by the...

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Drawer of ammonoids from the Woodwardian collection, the founding collection of the Sedgwick Museum, dating to the late 17th and early 18th century

We ask the experts: why do we put things into museums?

26 Nov 2013

Our lives are bound up with objects. Museums are evidence of our deep preoccupation with the things that surround us, whether natural or the product...

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Delegation from Tagai State College in front of the Torres Strait display at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Museum embarks on cultural exchange

25 Nov 2013

From 11 – 14 November 2013 the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, welcomed five students from the Torres Strait Islands. The...

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