Curating Cambridge: our city, our stories, our stuff

Curating Cambridge: our city, our stories, our stuff
Monday 20 October – Sunday 23 November 2014
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Curating Cambridge: our city, our stories, our stuff
Monday 20 October – Sunday 23 November 2014
Curating Cambridge: our city, our stories, our stuff is presented by the University of Cambridge Museums with
the Festival of Ideas, cultural partners and community organisations.
Through a five week programme Curating Cambridge brings together a range of approaches and
perspectives from across the city that will engage people in the city with Cambridge’s rich culture and
heritage.
It will consist of an exciting public programme including exhibitions, workshops, displays, talks, performances
and other opportunities to get involved that together explore our central themes of:
- our relationships to the things and places that surround us
- the stories and connections that add value and understanding to these things and places
- the stories of Cambridge and its treasures, looking to the past and to the future
- the process and forms of Curation
Our starting point for Curating Cambridge is that the city is home to world class collections from across the
arts and sciences. Our collections tell stories about our connections to these objects, one another and the rest
of the world. The collections in museums can connect you to the past, or to an idea, as can a more personal
connection to an object in your daily life. For us curating is to select, to organise and to care for things, but it is
also to tell a story or to ask a question, to pause for reflection or to enjoy a link to those who came before us.
As well as asking these questions in our museums we will be asking them in people’s homes, in our public
spaces and joining with cultural partners and their practice. In a way that is both playful and learned, both
contemporary and informed by the past, Curating Cambridge will provide a wide range of opportunities for
people to engage with our collections and to take their part in telling our collective stories.
In partnership with Festival of Ideas
Curating Cambridge has been developed by the University of Cambridge Museums with the University's
Public Engagement team, building on the museums’ established contribution to the Festival of Ideas. It will
launch as part of the two week Festival of Ideas, contributing to it’s 2014 theme of ‘Identities’ in particular
exploring our relationship to objects, places and nature and the stories that these tell. It will then run for a
further three weeks extending the creative and cultural thought provoking opportunities initiated by the
Festival of Ideas.
Providing the public with access to the University's research across the arts, humanities and social science is
central to the Festival of Ideas. This sets the stage for a coordinated contribution from Cambridge’s cultural
partners. Building on the success and growing reach of the Festival of Ideas (over 18000 visits in 2013) we
are working together to develop new opportunities and approaches for partners and audiences.
The University of Cambridge Museums and collections
• The Fitzwilliam Museum
• Kettle's Yard
• Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
• Museum of Classical Archaeology
• Museum of Zoology
• The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Elly Wright [email protected]
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The Whipple Museum of the History of
Science
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
The Polar Museum
www.cam.ac.uk/museums

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