Exhibition: Art, Science & Exploration from the University of Cambridge Museums

An exhibition about imagination and knowledge — about the pleasures of looking, and the power of objects to generate wonder as well as new ideas — Discoveries marks the first time Cambridge’s unique, world-class collections have been drawn together under one roof. Together, they cover the span of human endeavour and exploration, from the minuscule to the majestic, transforming the atmospheric interiors of Two Temple Place into cabinets of curiosity.

The exhibition features, among many other objects: ancient fossils, fine art, modern Inuit sculpture, Darwin’s only surviving egg from the Beagle voyage, a rare dodo skeleton and a state-of-the art digital instrument that searches for sub-atomic particles in the frozen depths of Antarctica. It looks at the limits as well as the frontiers of knowledge, the intersection between art and science and the connections between visionary thinking and scientifically-observed vision.