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The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art condemns the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, affirms democratic Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and joins with the Vice Chancellor in encouraging our community to assist through donations to support Ukrainians at this time of crisis...

Monday 21 February, 1-3pm Gallery 3, Fitzwilliam Museum The University of Cambridge houses globally significant collections of art and material culture, yet the display and research of these collections has largely taken place within Western disciplinary and institutional frameworks. As the University’s museums seek to...

The Future of Museums: A series of lectures by Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate and Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Cambridge, Spring 2022. As the world continues to endure the multiple economic and cultural consequences of living through and with a global pandemic that has disrupted social life as we have...

This talk examines the ostrich eggs suspended above Duccio’s Maestà at the late medieval main altar of Siena cathedral, through the lens of cultural exchange. In doing so, it sheds new light on such eggs, which it suggests were a material currency from Africa which served ritual purposes and which traversed expanding...