Sat 16th Jul 2016 - Sun 31st Jul 2016
Periods: Prehistory, Saxons and Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts, 20th and 21st Century, Romans, Medieval, Georgians and Victorians
Find glimpses of children's lives in East Anglia and across England from 1 million years ago to the 20th century, on display in the Li Ka Shing Gallery until January 2017.
Children outnumbered adults for most of human history, yet they rarely appear in the stories that museums tell. This exhibition, the first on the topic, aims to redress the balance.
Some objects on display will be familiar: a doll, a sledge, a baby’s feeding bottle. Other artefacts won’t look like children’s objects: pots with small fingerprints, a tiny handaxe made 400,000 years ago, goldwork as fine as a human hair. By looking carefully at all of this evidence, we will discover children’s lives and the part they played in society.
The exhibition is funded by a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is a joint project between Cambridgeshire County Council and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Website: http://www.hideandseekexhibition.org.uk/
You do not need to book this event
This event is free to attend
Sat 16th Jul 2016 10:30-16:30 — Sun 31st Jul 2016 10:30-16:30
The museum is open: Tuesday-Saturday 10:30-16:30. Sunday 12:00 noon-4.30pm
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Downing Street,
Cambridge CB2 3DZ
http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/events/2222
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