Koyal Group Research Information Magazine on Exploration and Discoveries

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Discoveries Art, Science Exploration from the
University of Cambridge Museums, Two Temple
Place, London By Jackie Wullschlager
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An eclectic collection of objects that all
breathe the spirit of inquiry
Can you distil the intellectual life of centuries
into an exhibition? If so, Cambridges eight
major museums are uniquely placed to do so. Each
is distinctive, from the Museum of Zoology, home
of a Tinamou egg acquired in Uruguay by Charles
Darwin (who cracked it by compressing it into
too small a box on the Beagles return voyage)
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and the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, whose
founder Reverend Sedgwick bought a rare Jurassic
ichthyosaur fossil for 50 in 1835, to
high-minded Kettles Yard, where collector Jim
Ede amassed rigorous modernist abstract sculpture
by Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore in a modest
domestic interior. But all breathe the spirit of
inquiry and freedom of thought associated with
the university.
Many of the objects, moreover, lead double lives
as trophy display pieces and as tools for daily
teaching and research that altered understanding
of the world.
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