Cambridge Tips:

"Better parking than Oxford, easier to get around ...more

Attraction in Cambridge

Kettle's Yard
Castle Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire

CB3 0AQ
email
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Click for phone

Write a review
update this listing

For sixteen years, Kettle's Yard was the home of Jim Ede, a former curator at the Tate Gallery, London, and his wife, Helen. It houses Ede's collection of art, mostly of the first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, David Jones, Joan Miró and many others, along with sculpture by artists including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

Paintings and sculpture are interlaced with furniture, glass, ceramics and natural objects. Ede's vision of Kettle's Yard was of a place that was not "an art gallery or museum, nor . . . simply a collection of works of art reflecting my taste or the taste of a given period. It is, rather, a continuing way of life from these last fifty years, in which stray objects, stones, glass, pictures, sculpture, in light and in space, have been used to make manifest the underlying stability . . ."

Each afternoon (apart from Mondays) visitors can ring the bell and ask to look around.

Next door is an exhibition gallery with an international reputation for its changing programme of 20th century and contemporary exhibitions.

Details

Months Open: All Year
House, Tues - Sun & BH Mons, 2 - 4 (1.30 - 4.30 in summer)
Gallery, Tues -Sun & BH Mons 11.30 - 5
Groups/Parties Welcome: Yes - Please pre-book
Admission Price: Free
Gift Shop: Yes

More Attractions nearby

Cambridge Contemporary Art (0.41 miles)

Whipple Museum of the History of Science (0.53 miles)

Scudamore's Punting (0.65 miles)

Sedgwick Museum (0.66 miles)

Riverboat Georgina (0.70 miles)

Today's best hotels deals

This page viewed on 6,398 occasions since Oct 16th 2005

Brit Quote:
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw
More Quotes

On this day:
Battle of Towton - 1461, Battle of Alresford - 1644, Albert Hall Opens - 1871, Captain Scott dies - 1912, First London Marathon - 1981
More dates from British history

click here to view all the British counties

County Pages