Darwin

The life and work of Charles Darwin will be celebrated at Cambridge throughout 2009--200 years after his birth and 150 since the publication of the Origin of Species.

An exhibit named Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts will be on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum during our time at Cambridge. The exhibition explores both the young Darwin’s debt to visual imagery and the vast range of artistic responses to his ideas. The result of over three years interdisciplinary research by The Fitzwilliam Museum, this exhibition goes beyond traditional examinations of Darwin’s life and work to encourage a radical reappraisal of nineteenth-century art.

Called “a major achievement” by the New York Times, and ‘courageous and wonderfully imaginative' by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Endless Forms features nearly two hundred objects and works of art from over 100 institutions around the world - many on display in the UK for the first time.

For more information, see www.darwinendlessforms.org.