Events calendar

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Displays (20)

Photograph of the Month

1 May - 31 May 2012
Room 31
Free

Film director Michael Powell, photographed by Fred Daniels in 1945. The display of this portrait celebrates the publication of The Archers: Powell & Pressburger Portraits /Portrety Fred Daniels by Nigel Arthur and Ewa Reeves.

Sandra Lousada: Work and Performance

28 November 2011 - 9 July 2012
Bookshop Gallery
Free
This display celebrates Sandra Lousada’s fifty-year career as a photographer.

Early English Kings: Medieval Monuments Remade

3 April 2012 - 6 January 2013
Room 1
Free
A selection of electrotype copies of effigies from the tombs of the Plantagenet kings

Double Take: Versions and Copies of Tudor Portraits

26 June - 9 September 2012
Room 2
Free
This display brings together five pairs of near identical portraits in order to explore how and why multiple versions and copies of portraits were made in the sixteenth century.

Queens in Waiting: Charlotte & Victoria

26 November 2011 - 14 October 2012
Room 16
Free
This display traces the idealised nature of the imagery used to represent a young woman in direct line to the throne at a time when the nation tired of the debauched Prince Regent’s rule.

Viceroys of India

23 April - 16 December 2012
Room 23 case display
Free

The changing face of this quasi-royal role from the mid-nineteenth century.

The Tichborne Trials

23 April - 21 October 2012
Room 24: case display
Free

Butcher or Baronet? Portraits of the key figures in this Victorian cause célèbre.

Olympic Encounters in 1908

29 May 2012 - 15 January 2013
Room 25: case display
Free
Sport and Politics: Photographs by Benjamin Stone of the American Olympic team visiting the House of Commons in July 1908.

Victorian Connections

8 December 2011 - 17 June 2012
Room 26
Free
This display examines four examples of prominent Victorians inspiring or influencing four well-known individuals of today, ranging across different walks of life.

Beautiful Souls

5 December 2011 - 12 August 2012
Room 28
Free
Focusing on portraits of key individuals, this display explores the group’s spiritual affinity with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; in particular their support and close friendship with the artist, Edward Burne-Jones.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912

17 July 2012 - 17 March 2013
Room 29 case display
Free
Voted among 100 Great Black Britons, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a composer and conductor whose choral trilogy Hiawatha was popular through to the 1940s. This display marks the centenary of his premature death at 37.

Cavendish Morton: A Man of Many Parts

12 December 2011 - 15 July 2012
Room 29 case display
Free
This display celebrates the work of the photographer, actor and art director Cavendish Morton (1874-1939), a leading artist of the Edwardian period.

Cambridge Connections: Photographs by Antony Barrington Brown

19 March - 16 September 2012
Room 31
Free

Leading figures in Cambridge during the 1950s including Mark Boxer, Crick and Watson and Michael Winner.

Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson

19 March - 16 September 2012
Room 31
Free

Picture Post photographer, pioneering television presenter, biographer, art critic and legendary Soho figure. Farson’s subjects include Lucian Freud, Brendan Behan, Adam Faith, Robert Graves, Richard Burton and Salvador Dali.

Gertie Millar, Countess of Dudley: From Stage to Society

16 April - 16 December 2012
Room 31: case display
Free

Actress and singer, Gertie Millar (1879-1952) was the reigning star of musical comedy in the Edwardian era.

Thomas Struth

15 May 2012 - 20 January 2013
Room 32
Free
Photographs exploring human relationships by the leading German photographer, complementing Struth's new royal portrait featured in The Queen: Art and Image.

Spotlight on Peter Rand

17 April - 16 September 2012
Room 32
Free
This display celebrates the recent acquisition of a group of sixteen photographs by Vogue photographer Peter Rand, and the recent publication of The Day of the Peacock: Style for Men 1963-1973 (2011) which features many of Peter Rand’s fashion photographs.

Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People