The Auzoux Project with artist Anna Brownsted

Join artist Anna Brownsted and the Whipple Museum for the second and final hands-on creative workshop inspired by Dr Louis Auzoux’s remarkable papier-mâché teaching models. You do not need to have attended the first workshop to take part.

Building on the success of the first session, this workshop continues the collaborative format, inviting participants to create small mushroom forms that will become part of an evolving installation in the Upper Gallery, gradually transforming the Victorian Parlour. A celebratory late opening and exhibition launch will take place on Thursday 26 March 2026, when participants’ papier-mâché works are revealed as a final installation at the Whipple Museum.

This workshop is suitable for ages 16+.

Funded by UCM/ACE Collections in Action

Workshop 2

In this session, participants will work together to create small and miniature mushroom forms, expanding the growing mycelium-inspired installation begun in the first workshop. Using simple, everyday materials—newsprint, glue, and imagination—you will explore papier-mâché techniques that echo Dr Auzoux’s own methods. These smaller-scale works will add detail, density, and texture to the installation.

What to expect

• Welcome and introduction to the project
• Creative warm-up activity
• Guided making session focused on small-scale form-making

Works made during the session will be left to dry at the Whipple. Anna will later add colour and finish the sculptures in her studio before installing them in the gallery.

Tickets for the workshop are free, please book here!

Access Update at the Whipple Museum: Lift Works 2026

The Museum's lift has served us well for over fifteen years and is now due for replacement. From 2 February to April 2026, the lift will be out of service while these essential works are carried out.

We very much appreciate your understanding during this period. For further information or queries, please contact enquiries@whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk.