The Fitzwilliam Museum Society

The Fitzwilliam Museum Society Join FMS to take advantage of unique opportunities within the Cambridge arts scene. We hold a variety of art-related events for our members.

The Fitzwilliam Museum Society is the largest student-run Art society at the University of Cambridge. These range from regular lunch-time talks at the Fitzwilliam Museum to craft events, panels and talks with industry professionals, and exhibition lates including our hugely popular Museum late, Love Art After Dark. Follow us on Instagram !

Borrow My Eyes—— Reimagining Museum Learning through Embodied ExperienceMuseums are more than places that preserve objec...
22/07/2026

Borrow My Eyes
—— Reimagining Museum Learning through Embodied Experience

Museums are more than places that preserve objects—
They are spaces where people observe, wonder, connect and create meaning together.
Borrow My Eyes is an interactive museum learning experience that combines drama pedagogy, embodied learning and close observation to invite participants to see artworks through another person’s perspective. Rather than seeking a single “correct” interpretation, the workshop encourages curiosity, empathy and dialogue, exploring how meaning is shaped through perception, imagination and shared experience.
At the heart of the workshop is one simple question:
Can we ever truly see an artwork through someone else’s perspectives?
Through a series of paired experiences, participants discover that every act of looking is also an act of interpretation. By slowing down, listening carefully and borrowing another person’s perspective, they begin to experience the museum not only as a place of knowledge, but as a space for connection, reflection and co-created meaning.
Developed in collaboration with the Cambridge China Education Forum, Borrow My Eyes reflects a shared commitment to exploring innovative approaches to museum learning—placing human experience, dialogue and imagination at the centre of every museum visit.

Date: 6th August, 2026
Time: 10.30am-12:00pm

Free Registration

In response to the recent exhibition ‘John Hubbard: Landscapes of Distance’ at The Bill Brown Creative Workshops, this p...
13/06/2026

In response to the recent exhibition ‘John Hubbard: Landscapes of Distance’ at The Bill Brown Creative Workshops, this practice-based workshop reconsiders landscape not as a representational image, but as a spatial and perceptual construction. Taking John Hubbard’s monochrome works as a point of departure, participants will explore how movement can emerge through tonal density, structural tension, and the gradual modulation of light.

Rather than describing what is seen, the session invites participants to experience how space shifts, compresses, and unfolds through attentive looking and material engagement.

Facilitator

Zhu Lin Zhu Lin is a Chinese artist and educator working across sculpture and painting. Her practice explores spatial perception and the relationship between mass, light, and emptiness, investigating how form generates movement within space.

She has led workshops and cross-cultural art programmes in the UK and China, with a particular focus on perceptual awareness, material sensitivity, and the emergence of form through restraint. Her work bridges Eastern and Western spatial traditions, inviting participants to reconsider how space is experienced rather than represented.

In the age of artificial intelligence, questions of how individuals connect, collaborate, and create meaning together ha...
21/01/2026

In the age of artificial intelligence, questions of how individuals connect, collaborate, and create meaning together have become newly urgent.

This talk explores these questions through the lived experience of China’s D**g (Kam) communities, whose social harmony and communal decision-making have long relied on non-hierarchical communication, embodied in music, ritual, and space. Rather than presenting the D**g as an object of study, this conversation uses their example as a lens to rethink our own moment: what might their ways of listening, negotiating, and belonging teach us about building humane connections in the post-AI world?

Guest Speaker: Yiyuan Shi
Host: Feifan Lou
Moderator: Dr Ashley Xiong
Bamboo Flute (Dizi) Artist: Zongpu Lu
Pianist: Bingbing Jiang
Composer: Ray Lin

🕒 Time
Saturday, 31st January 2026, 15:00–17:00
📍Venue
New Music Room, St John’s College

Tickets can be found here

https://fixr.co/event/from-the-mountain-village-to-the-world-a-dialogue-tickets-304848081

We hope to hear how scholars in literature, digital humanities, cross-cultural studies and creative practice approach similar questions in their own work. It aims to foster an interdisciplinary exchange on how narrative, art, and collective imagination might reshape human connection in a technological age.

This event is open to all, with limited capacity. Those who wish to attend are encouraged to reserve a free ticket in advance - ticket holders will be given priority entry.

We look forward to seeing you at St John’s College for an afternoon of thought, music, and dialogue.

Come and craft your own Marvellous Chocolate, personalise its shape, flavour, and wrapping.FMS is having a 3D-printed ch...
09/12/2025

Come and craft your own Marvellous Chocolate, personalise its shape, flavour, and wrapping.

FMS is having a 3D-printed chocolate workshop in collaboration with Bits & Bites, a Cambridge-based company specialising in museum innovation, digital technology and culinary design.

Date: 16 December
Time: 11:00–13:00 (2 hours)
Location: Creative Studio, Fitzwilliam Museum

Click the link below to book your place!

https://fixr.co/event/christmas-chocolate-lab-day-3d-printing-workshop-tickets-993954113

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