Introduction
This page is a photo gallery of all the Cows About Cambridge Mini-Moo sculptures that were on display in Cambridge between late June and early September 2021. See the Mini-Moos Trail page for a full record of the walking trail, including streetscapes and landmarks between the cow locations. See the Large Cows Gallery page for a similar photo gallery of the large cows.
Several Mini-Moos were located in shop window displays, where photographs had to be taken from outside through the glass and are affected by reflections, and I wasn’t always able to photograph the front and both sides.
Two extra Mini-Moos appeared at the farewell event, but No. 25 “And So The Flower Will Bloom Again” was the only one of the original 46 there. Xaar, who sponsored the event, exhibited some 3D-printed Micro-Moos which are shown at the end.
There was a 49th Mini-Moo, the Cow-Respondent, which was sold to a private buyer at the auction. It wasn’t at the Farewell Event so I have no photos of it.
The Mini-Moos have been returned to the organisations that created them, so no more photos will be added to this gallery.
Click on the “Details” links to view the information about the sculptures on the Cows About Cambridge website. Click on the gallery images to display them at full resolution.
Contents
Xaar 3D-Printed Micro-Moos
And finally…
Mini-Moos 1-45: Mini-Moos Trail
Mini-Moo 1 “MORCA”
Location: Polar Museum, Lensfield Road, just inside entrance
Creator: Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology
Design: Construction industry drawings and building plans
Details: MORCA
Mini-Moo 2 “Sunshine + Rain = Rainbow”
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, beside shop
Creator: Arbury Primary School
Design: Created by several children, and lots of people added coloured fingerprints
Details: Sunshine + Rain = Rainbow
Mini-Moo 3 “Art Mooterials”
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, beside shop
Creator: Cromwell Community College
Design: Shows the equipment and materials used in Art
Details: Art Mooterials
Mini-Moo 4 “Milky-Way”
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, beside shop
Creator: North Cambridge Academy
Design: Illustrates careers within the arts sector
Details: Milky-Way
Mini-Moo 5 “Faith”
Location: Fitzbillies, Trumpington Street, in window display
Creator: St Faith’s School
Design: Inspired by Aboriginal Dreamtime stories
Details: Faith
Mini-Moo 6 “A Cow Full of Curiosity”
Location: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, on ground floor
Creator: Great Abington Primary School
Design: Decorated with objects that were special to the schoolchildren who designed it
Details: A Cow Full of Curiosity
Mini-Moo 7 “Where the Wild Things Are”
Location: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, on top floor
Creator: Melbourn Primary School
Design: Inspired by children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak
Details: Where the Wild Things Are
Mini-Moo 8 “StapleMoo”
Location: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, in entrance
Creator: Stapleford Community Primary School
Design: Environmental theme
Details: StapleMoo
Mini-Moo 9 “Girls can do anything!”
Location: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Site, in a pen inside entrance
Creator: Girlguiding Cambridgeshire East
Design: Girlguiding theme
Details: Girls can do anything!
Mini-Moo 10 “Gretton Mini Moo”
Location: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Site, in a pen inside entrance
Creator: Gretton School
Design: Building images from in and around Cambridge
Details: Gretton Mini Moo
Mini-Moo 11 “Marshland Mini Moo”
Location: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Site, in a pen inside entrance
Creator: Marshland High School
Design: Scenery of the local area on its left side, and aspects of school life on its right side
Details: Marshland Mini Moo
Mini-Moo 12 “Pete the Fla’moo’go”
Location: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Site, in a pen inside entrance
Creator: St Peter’s Junior School
Design: Wildlife images
Details: Pete the Fla’moo’go
Mini-Moo 13 “Belle the Bellbird Cow”
Location: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Site, in a pen inside entrance
Creator: The Bellbird Primary School
Design: Based on the Bellbird School logo with birds and handprints
Details: Belle the Bellbird Cow
Mini-Moo 14 “Gerty”
Location: Grand Arcade, in a pen on first floor outside Starbucks
Creator: Bottisham Community Primary School
Design: Coloured leaves
Details: Gerty
Mini-Moo 15 “The Barrington Peacow”
Location: Grand Arcade, in a pen on first floor outside Starbucks
Creator: Barrington C of E Primary School
Design: Inspired by a peacock tail
Details: The Barrington Peacow
Mini-Moo 16 “Captain Moovel”
Location: Grand Arcade, in a pen on second floor outside Castle Fine Art
Creator: Thorndown Primary School
Design: Bees and endangered species
Details: Captain Moovel
Mini-Moo 17 “Ms Mary Moo”
Location: Grand Arcade, in a pen on second floor outside Castle Fine Art
Creator: St Mary’s Cambridge
Design: Symbols depicting creative school subjects
Details: Ms Mary Moo
Mini-Moo 18 “St Matthew’s Meadows”
Location: Central Library at third floor level
Creator: St Matthew’s Primary School
Design: Meadow flowers
Details: St Matthew’s Meadows
Mini-Moo 19 “The Grove Com-moo-nity Cow”
Location: Central Library at third floor level
Creator: The Grove Primary School
Design: A celebration of nature and local landmarks
Details: The Grove Com-moo-nity Cow
Mini-Moo 20 “Wassily Cow-dinsky”
Location: Cambridge Chop House, Bene’t Street, in window
Creator: Great Wilbraham Primary School
Design: Artistic pattern of irregular concentric circles within squares
Details: Wassily Cow-dinsky
Mini-Moo 21 “Lazy Cow”
Location: TK Maxx, left window of Market Street entrance
Creator: Break Charity – Burrowmoor Road
Design: A punt on the river
Details: Lazy Cow
Mini-Moo 22 “OaTiE”
Location: Jacks, Trinity Street, in window display
Creator: On Track Education
Design: Left side is decorated with coloured happy figures, and right side shows shadow figures holding hands
Details: OaTiE
Mini-Moo 23 “MeMoo”
Location: Jigsaw, Trinity Street, in left window display
Creator: Little Paxton Primary School
Design: Depicts the theme “What we love about Little Paxton”
Details: MeMoo
Mini-Moo 24 “Studio-moo-dio”
Location: Jigsaw, Trinity Street, in left window display
Creator: Studio Cambridge
Design: Represents the diverse students and cultures welcomed at the Studio Cambridge language school
Details: Studio-moo-dio
Mini-Moo 25 “And So The Flower Will Bloom Again”
Location: Jigsaw, Trinity Street, in right window display
Creator: Mind
Design: Decorated with flowers, rainbows and butterflies
Details: And So The Flower Will Bloom Again
Notes: The only one of the original 45 to appear at the Farewell Event (last 2 pictures).
Mini-Moo 26 “Meadow Moo”
Location: Heffers, Trinity Street, in window on right
Creator: The Meadow Primary School
Design: English meadow theme
Details: Meadow Moo
Mini-Moo 27 “Downham Feoffees Primary Academy”
Location: Heffers, Trinity Street, in window on left
Creator: Downham Feoffees Primary Academy
Design: Rainbow-coloured handprints
Details: Downham Feoffees Primary Academy
Mini-Moo 28 “Philippa”
Location: Museum of Cambridge, outside by side entrance
Creator: Museum of Cambridge
Design: A rocking-horse race across a night sky
Details: Philippa
Mini-Moo 29 “McFlurry the Fen Cow”
Location: Primark, Burleigh Street, in window display
Creator: Coates Primary School
Design: Reflects the Fens, with corn, trees and flowers
Details: McFlurry the Fen Cow
Mini-Moo 30 “Dandelion Eco-Cow”
Location: Primark, Burleigh Street, in window display
Creator: Swavesey Primary School
Design: Flora and fauna designs by young children
Details: Dandelion Eco-Cow
Mini-Moo 31 “Cowmeo”
Location: Grafton Centre, in a pen on the concourse
Creator: Cambridge Junction: Total Arts
Design: A representation of the film making process
Details: Cowmeo
Mini-Moo 32 “Mooving Towards a Green Future”
Location: Grafton Centre, in a pen on the concourse
Creator: Bottisham Village College
Design: Covered in single-use plastic packaging for crisps and biscuits. By September it had started to ‘moult’ (last two pictures), providing a practical demonstration of how these items end up littering the environment!
Details: Mooving Towards a Green Future
Mini-Moo 33 “Unity”
Location: Grafton Centre, in a pen on the concourse
Creator: Hauxton Primary School
Design: “Welcome” in various languages, illustrated in their flag colours
Details: Unity
Mini-Moo 34 “MOOzy ‘because cows do a little bit of mooing'”
Location: Grafton Centre, in a pen on the concourse
Creator: Histon Early Years Centre
Design: Decorated with children’s illustrations of Histon and wearing wellington boots
Details: MOOzy ‘because cows do a little bit of mooing’
Mini-Moo 35 “Commoonity Cow”
Location: Grafton Centre, in a pen on the concourse
Creator: The Spinney School
Design: Decorated with ‘Zentangle’ images
Details: Commoonity Cow
Mini-Moo 36 “Starry Starry Moo”
Location: Grafton Centre, in a pen on the concourse
Creator: Trumpington Park Primary School
Design: Based on landscapes of Cambridge at night
Details: Starry Starry Moo
Mini-Moo 37 “Psychedelic Moo”
Location: Grafton Centre, “Heard by the Herd” window display
Creator: Break Charity – Staying Connected Team
Design: Vibrant, psychedelic pattern
Details: Psychedelic Moo
Mini-Moo 38 “Moonet Picowso”
Location: Grafton Centre, “Heard by the Herd” window display
Creator: Swavesey Village College
Design: Various artistic design ideas stitched together
Details: Moonet Picowso
Mini-Moo 39 “Ermine-trude”
Location: Grafton Centre, “Heard by the Herd” window display
Creator: Pendragon Community Primary School
Design: Represents a dragon with wings and school uniform
Details: Ermine-trude
Mini-Moo 40 “Through God’s Grace, Growing in Knowledge and Understanding”
Location: Grafton Centre, “Heard by the Herd” window display
Creator: St Laurence Catholic Primary School
Design: Decorated with St Laurence Catholic Primary School’s logo of a gold cross on a grid, with photos of students learning in the grid square
Details: Through God’s Grace, Growing in Knowledge and Understanding
Mini-Moo 41 “Vegan Geometry”
Location: Vanderlyle Restaurant, Mill Road, in left window
Creator: Hills Road Sixth Form College
Design: Theme of veganism, sustainability and decorative impact
Details: Vegan Geometry
Mini-Moo 42 “Cherry”
Location: Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside, in garden
Creator: Colville Primary School
Design: Represents the colours and values of Coleville Primary School, in Cherry Hinton
Details: Cherry
Mini-Moo 43 “Sabrina”
Location: Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside, in garden
Creator: Trumpington Community College
Design: Represents Trumpington Community College and comments about it
Details: Sabrina
Mini-Moo 44 “Neon Cow”
Location: Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside, in garden
Creator: The Netherhall School
Design: Decorated with brightly coloured acrylic paints and varnished
Details: Neon Cow
Mini-Moo 45 “Flower”
Location: Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside, in garden
Creator: St Alban’s Catholic Primary
Design: Trees, bees and flowers
Details: Flower
Mini-Moo 46: Heard by the Herd
The 46th Mini-Moo, making up the total of 90 cows including the 44 large ones, was located in the “Heard by the Herd Cow-Munity Project” window display alongside Large Cow 44 “TRASH ART MOO”. Mini-Moos 37-40 above, included on the trail, were located in the other window of the same shop unit.
Mini-Moo 46 “Trash Art Mini-Moo”
Location: Heard by the Herd shop window, Grafton Centre
Artist: Abbey Teens with Oblique Arts: Penny Sobr, artist/iIlustrator and Beverley Carpenter, artist
Design: Cut up compact discs, with protruding plastic bottles and toys
Details: Trash Art Mini-Moo
Mini-Moos 47-48: Farewell Event
These two Mini-Moos were not part of the trail or the Heard by the Herd display. The first one was previously on display at Duxford.
Mini-Moo 47 “Reims”
Location: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, then Farewell Event
Artist: Adam Bridgland
Sponsor: Cambridge BID
Design: Aviation theme with paper planes
Details: Reims
Mini-Moo 48 “Red Mini-Moo”
Location: Farewell Event
Design: Red “Cows About Cambridge” branding
Xaar Micro-Moos
Xaar, sponsors of the Farewell Event, exhibited some 3D-printed “Micro-Moos” there. They had a printer there printing one, but it takes a few hours. They were selling the tiny ones for a 50p donation and were holding a competition to name the larger one.
And Finally: A Mini-Baa
While out photographing the cows I came across this sheep sculpture, about the size of a Mini-Moo, in the entrance of a shop called “Neon Sheep”.