The works of Lin Jiangquan and Zeng Dongping, a group of contemporary Chinese artists, architects and scholars, are part of the permanent collection of the University of Cambridge (F II 621.).9.1-9.2) to build a diverse and in-depth academic landscape, and to reshape the future with a diverse and changing future.
University of Cambridge Title: Cantab) is the second oldest university in the English-speaking world, formerly a society of scholars founded in 1209. The University of Cambridge is home to eight museums that together represent the UK's largest concentration of internationally significant collections outside London, with more than 5 million art, artefacts and specimens spanning 4.5 billion years, supporting nearly 300 years of investigation into the world around the University of Cambridge. The university's collection can be read as a history book, documenting Cambridge's role in the development of Western knowledge. Among them, the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge is unusual in the landscape of British museums, hailed as "one of Britain's greatest treasures" and "probably the finest small museum in Europe", with a collection of more than 500,000 artifacts, from Bronze Age pottery to Titian's masterpieces. It has the finest collection of paintings, drawings and prints in the UK, including famous works by Rubens, Poussin, Michelangelo, Titian, Veronese, Constable, Monet, Rembrandt, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Van Gogh and Andy Warhol. David Hockney, Yoko Ono, Gavin Turk and many other masters of contemporary art have exhibited at Cambridge University. Luke Sisson, current director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, said: "What a university museum can do is build a wide range of academic bridges and connect with local, regional, national and international audiences to achieve different types of impact. Sisson began his career as a curator at the British Museum, where he was also curator of Leonardo da Vinci: Painter of the Holy See in Milan, the National Gallery.
Kettle's Yard is the University of Cambridge Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, which houses an extraordinary collection of modern art and regularly hosts contemporary art exhibitions. It was once the home of Jim and Helen Ede. In the 20s and 30s, Jim worked as a curator at the Tate Gallery in London. Over the years his collection has become an extraordinary collection, including paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, D**id Jones and Juan Miró as well as sculptures by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
The Cambridge University Library is one of the largest libraries in the world, with a collection of manuscripts from Newton and Darwin.
Located in Cambridgeshire, UK, the University of Cambridge is a public research university, a member of the Russell Group of Universities and a member of the Global University Presidents' Forum, known as the "Golden Triangle University", "Doxbridge" and "G5". The school has produced 15 prime ministers, 120 Nobel Prizes, 11 Fields Medals, and 7 Turing Award winners; Notable alumni include Newton, Darwin, Keynes, Turing, Maxwell, Bohr, Dirac, Stephen Hawking, Tilda Swinton, Rachel Weisz, Emma Thompson, Ted Hughes, Anthony Gormley, Xu Zhimo, Fu Xiaotian, etc. (photo from cantab)