It’s #InternationalMuseumDay, which means there’s only a couple of weeks left to see Islanders Fitzwilliam Museum . Here’s some of my favourites from the exhibition:

#AccessToNature

We loved walking with the Y3 class for ‘Walking with Constable’ today. The children made brilliant observations about the landscape and did some wonderful drawing based on close looking. @CamDigLib Cambridge Digital Humanities Fitzwilliam Museum collab

Struggling to take in this news about Harriet. We met during a HoA MA at UCL, and she was the life and soul of our group. She was incredibly kind, a great listener and oh so funny. My thoughts are with her family and the rest of her multitude of friends

Wonderful to launch the new University Library Research Institute Cambridge University Library yesterday. A real collaborative effort to get us to this stage - starting in the way we hope to continue! Wondering what the ULRI is/does? The video below explains.

We loved watching the children as pieces of their story were connected into a collective story by Inbali Iserles 🦊. There were some wonderfully descriptive nature words that linked to what we’d seen on our walk. More detail soon! Thank you @PrimaryDedham3 & @PrimaryDedham. @CamDigLib

Late to the party but astonished at the transformation at Gainsborough's House. Love the division between old & new spaces, which can now hold taller pictures & multiple varied displays incl. an artist in residence. Hugely forward to the printing studio opening. Thanks Mark Bills MBE!

I like these too. They remind me of Larkin’s poem As Bad as A Mile, but a carefree LA version

A wonderful thing to do for a heartbreaking cause. #artistsforbibi

1830 sampler sewn by a teenage female servant, UK, Elizabeth Parker recounting the abuse she suffered, indicating the vulnerability of young working-class women employed in households far from their families, and the power of needlework as a form of women’s voices #WomensArt

Love the T-shirt 💫

We're thrilled to have acquired a sketch of Colchester's St Botolph's Priory by none other than John Constable! This early-career drawing, which dates from September 1808, was purchased by the Friends of #Colchester #Museums 🥰 #Art #Collections

Is wonderful to work and learn with you, Sarah. Looking forward to more!

Two Practitioner RA jobs Fitzwilliam Museum working with the brilliant Dr Kate Noble delivering & shaping our participatory research programmes. Closes 18 Jul. £35k-£43k. Collections & Early Childhood jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41775/ Collections & Wellbeing jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41776/

Head buzzing from a day of wonderful ideas! Thank you for your excellent steering and facilitating, Sarah. Looking forward to next steps

A detail of the poet William Cowper's memorial window at Dereham, Norfolk, visited yesterday. His dog Beau and his hares Tiney and Puss, glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, 1900. ' Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, Who, nursed with tender care, And to domesticate bounds

The Cambridge colleges had some open days last week and we snatched the chance to walk through Clare College. Was unaware of this monster tree - what a giant!

*On the trail of the UK’s rarest native tree*. I’ve recently joined an academic study into the genetics of the black poplar; one of our most imperilled, but enigmatic, trees. This study will help to unlock info that may be crucial to our efforts to save this wonderful species🧵