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Fri 14 Sep – Sat 15 Sep 2018 2 To pre-book, visit: www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk or call: 01223 766766 There is no need to pre-book Our thanks go to the Cambridge events unless specifically stated. Blue and Green Badge Guides – all members of the Society of Bookings open: Cambridge Tour Guides – who are leading themed walking tours for Mon 13 Aug 2018 Open Cambridge 2018 for free. Lines open: Those who book walking tours are 11AM – 3PM expected to keep up at a moderate Mon – Fri pace for the duration of the tour. We regret that dogs, pushchairs, scooters and bicycles are not permitted. Tips for attending Open Cambridge Æ All events are free of charge unless otherwise stated. Æ Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Æ You may be refused entry if you arrive after an event has started even if you have booked. Limited tickets may be available on the day for all pre-book events. Your attendance at the festival signifies your agreement to comply with the Guidance for attending Open Cambridge: www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/attending The University of Cambridge and our sponsors and partners are proud to present the Open Cambridge Weekend. 3 Welcome to Open Cambridge 2018 4 Cambridge opens its doors for a special weekend Open Observatory P.9 The Sainsbury Laboratory The Complete Cambridge Tour P.16 P.8 5 Welcome to Open Cambridge, OPEN CAMBRIDGE a celebration of Cambridge’s history, 6–17 architecture, art and gardens. OPEN EDDINGTON Throughout Friday 14 and Saturday 18–23 15 September join us for walks, talks, BRIDGE THE GAP tours and exhibitions that will highlight 24 aspects of the City’s history – natural and cultural, civic and religious, scholarly, MAP AND ACCESSIBILITY 26–27 recreational and industrial. Open Eddington will showcase the North West Cambridge development and its buildings in this new neighbourhood. We hope that you will enjoy exploring this wonderful City. Please tell us what you think www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/ feedback The Parker Library P.15 Gallery Talk Open Observatory P.13 P.9 6 Open Cambridge 7 ARTSCAPE: THE TOURS OF SIDNEY MARSHALL LIBRARY OF JUXTAPOSITION OF ART, SUSSEX ECONOMICS OPEN DAY ARCHITECTURE AND Join us for a tour of Sidney A rare chance to see this LANDSCAPE AT MURRAY Sussex College led by the library space designed by Sir EDWARDS COLLEGE Head Porter, exploring parts of Hugh Casson and hidden Murray Edwards College the College not normally seen within the Austin Robinson is home to award-winning by the public. Building on the Sidgwick Site. gardens, an internationally There will be tours on the hour acclaimed art collection by 10AM - 11AM and a chance to view some women artists, and a bountiful 11AM - NOON of our Rare Books, many of archive and library among, 2.30PM - 3.30PM which were once owned by and within, its celebrated Æ FRI 14 SEPT Alfred Marshall, the founding brutalist architecture. The father of economics. Sidney Sussex College, tour is led by the Librarian, Sidney Street, CB2 3HU the Art Curator and the Head 10AM - 4PM Gardener. Visitors are invited Æ FRI 14 SEPT • Pre-book to stay for tea in the Rosemary • All ages Austin Robinson Building, Murray Library at the end of • Arrive on time Marshall Library of Economics, the tour. • Tour Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DB 10AM - 11.30AM • Pre-book 2PM - 3.30PM • Adults Æ FRI 14 SEPT • Arrive on time INVADERS, TRADERS AND • Exhibition Meet in the Library, Murray TRAVELLERS • Tour Edwards College, New Hall, Invaders, traders and travellers CB3 0DF have visited Cambridge for many centuries. Join • Pre-book Cambridge Green Badge • All ages MIND YOUR HEAD: Guide Max Field on this • Arrive on time PHRENOLOGY AT THE • Exhibition walking tour to explore the WHIPPLE • Talk area around the river port, Visit the Whipple Library • Tour once the hub of the town, the for a special joint display of origins of Magdalene College, pamphlets, books, models and the old Danish quarter. and ephemera relating to phrenology within the Whipple 10AM - NOON Museum. Investigate the Æ FRI 14 SEPT products of the 19th century Museum of Cambridge, pseudoscience that declared 2/3 Castle Street, CB3 0AQ personal characteristics were represented by the shape of • Pre-book your head. • 14+ • Arrive on time 10AM - 4PM • Tour Æ FRI 14 SEPT Whipple Library, School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH • 14+ • Drop in • Exhibition 8 TEA AND TOURS THE COMPLETE MEET THE CURATOR: Join us for a behind-the- CAMBRIDGE TOUR: STAR CARR scenes tour at the Brighton PUNTING AND WALKING A special tour of the Building. Meet the Sedgwick Start your trip on a Museum of Archaeology and Museum team, learn about chauffeured punting tour Anthropology’s new exhibition, the important work carried along the majestic Cambridge looking at the prehistoric site out at our Conservation college backs. Afterwards, join of Star Carr in Yorkshire. Laboratory, see some archive a Blue Badge Guide for an treasures and find out how we intriguing walking tour around 11AM - NOON decipher the hidden histories the historic city. 1.30PM - 2.30PM of rocks. Refreshments will be Æ FRI 14 SEPT available during the morning. 11AM - 1PM Museum of Archaeology and 1PM - 3PM Anthropology, Downing Street, 10AM - NOON 3PM - 5PM CB2 3DZ Æ FRI 14 SEPT Æ FRI 14 SEPT • Pre-book Madingley Rise, A G Brighton Scudamore’s Punting • Adults Building, Madingley Road, Company, Granta Place, • Arrive on time CB3 0EZ Mill Lane, CB2 1RS • Tour • Pre-book • Pre-book • Adults • All ages • Arrive on time • Arrive on time • Tour • Talk WHO WAS FENNER? • Tour CRICKET AND FOOTBALL IN CAMBRIDGE UP TO 1848 WOMEN AND THEIR Join Nigel Fenner for a WORK: 19TH CENTURY THE GARDENS AT CLARE brief walking tour, starting SELWYN WOMEN IN COLLEGE at the new 1848 Laws of THEIR OWN WORDS An informal tour of the the University Football Club Explore 19th century New gardens at Clare College, sculpture on Parker’s Piece, Zealand, Melanesia, and life taking in their history, future finishing at Fenner’s Cricket closer to home in the words development and how they Ground Pavilion for an hour and images of three women are maintained. The tour long talk on Mr Francis Phillips who experienced them includes a trip to the Fellows’ Fenner and the history of sport first hand: Sarah Selwyn, Garden with its magnificent in Cambridge. Annie Selwyn, and Kathleen herbaceous borders and Lyttelton. specimen trees, the sunken 12.30PM - 2PM pond garden and tropical Æ FRI 14 SEPT 10AM - 4PM garden. Parker’s Piece, opposite the Æ FRI 14 SEPT Fire Station, CB1 1JF 11AM - 12.30PM The Library, Selwyn College, 2.30PM - 4PM • Pre-book Grange Road, CB3 9DQ Æ FRI 14 SEPT • All ages • All ages • Arrive on time • Drop in Clare College, Trinity Lane, • Talk • Exhibition CB2 1TL • Tour • Pre-book • 12+ • Arrive on time • Tour 9 QUIZ A CONSERVATOR! IF THE SHOE FITS: GOTHIC REVIVAL AND We are letting our CONSERVATION DECORATIVE ARTS conservators out of the lab for CONVERSATIONS Join Cambridge Green Badge the afternoon! Discover how Drop in to the Polar Museum Guide Yvonne Pinchen on a the historic bird specimens and see some of our curious walking tour of Peterhouse, St have been conserved for our collection of boots used in Mary’s Church, St Botolph’s new displays, and get the Polar explorations. Meet our Church and Queens’ chance to ask a conservator conservator Sophie Rowe College, to focus on the your burning questions. See and find out about the stories work of nationally acclaimed our summer exhibition, Still behind the shoes. designers, artists and artisans Life, in a new light as we who restored these buildings talk about how old and new 2PM - 4PM in the 19th century, including compare. Æ FRI 14 SEPT George Frederick Bodley, George Gilbert Scott, Charles Scott Polar Research Institute, 1PM - 4PM Eamer Kempe and William The Polar Museum, Lensfield Æ FRI 14 SEPT Morris. Road, CB2 1ER Museum of Zoology, Downing • All ages 2.15PM - 4.30PM Street, CB2 3EJ • Drop in Æ FRI 14 SEPT • All ages • Talk • Drop in Meet outside Little Saint • Talk Mary’s Church, Trumpington Street, CB2 1QG SELWYN COLLEGE • Pre-book GARDENS TOUR • 14+ MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY Join us for a guided tour of • Arrive on time DISCOVERY TALKS: Selwyn College’s gardens. • Tour BEETLE COLLECTIONS OF This is a very good time of LEONARD JENYNS AND year to visit the gardens with CHARLES DARWIN the Victorian border at the Join Matt Hayes as he height of its display. OPEN OBSERVATORY explores the life of Leonard Visit the historic Cambridge Jenyns, an important 19th 2PM - 3PM Observatory. View the century naturalist and friend of Æ FRI 14 SEPT engineering marvel of the great Charles Darwin. The Museum Northumberland Telescope houses many specimens that Porters’ Lodge, Selwyn and the fascinating technology he collected and notebooks College, Grange Road, of the Thorrowgood Telescope. in which he made detailed CB3 9DQ The neo-classical Observatory observations of the wildlife of • Pre-book building of 1823 will be open, Cambridgeshire. These give • All ages including its library – one of the a fascinating glimpse of local • Arrive on time very few specialist astronomical habitats almost 200 years • Tour libraries in the country. ago, and a comparison with what we see in them today. 4PM - 6PM Æ FRI 14 SEPT 1.15PM - 1.45PM The Observatory, Institute of Æ FRI 14 SEPT Astronomy, Madingley Road, Museum of Zoology, Downing CB3 0HA Street, CB2 3EJ • 12+ • 14+ • Drop in • Arrive on time • Exhibition • Talk 10 PICTUREBOOKS: A TALK TREASURES OF QUEENS’ THE ART OF DISRUPTION: BY PROFESSOR MORAG COLLEGE OLD LIBRARY SOCIETY AND THE STYLES The Old Library dates from SUPERNATURAL Join Professor Morag 1448 and its 20,000 volumes 200 years after the publication Styles to learn more about include medieval manuscripts, of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the fascinating world of incunabula, books with explore the strange, contemporary picturebooks elaborate bindings and early subversive and chaotic world and children’s responses editions of important works.