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Our café will be closed from Tuesday 31 January and will reopen as the Courtyard Kitchen on Saturday 11 February. Read more about our exciting new redevelopment here.

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Exhibitions and new displays

Image from Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

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Friday 24th February 2023 to Sunday 04th June 2023

Warring Couple, from the set The Crying Game, by Marcelle Hanselaar, 2015. ©MarcelleHanselaar

Bearing Witness? Violence and Trauma on Paper

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Tuesday 10th January 2023 to Sunday 02nd April 2023

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A detail of the ceiling of the Founder's entrance

Founder's Entrance

Interior of Gallery 8

Gallery 8: Spanish & Flemish Art 16th–18th Century

Gallery 27: The Glaisher gallery

Gallery 27: European Pottery

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Indian Manuscript

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What are museums for?

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New Art, New Perspectives

In My Mind's Eye

Collections highlights

Teapot, c.1775 - 1780

Teapot

Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath, c.1765

Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath

L'Umana Fragilita (Human Frailty)

L'Umana Fragilità (Human Frailty)

Our research

young children looking at coins in gallery 3

It's Our Museum Too!

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Making Connections Through Collections

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Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC)

Latest news

An oil painting of a wheat field and church spire in the background.

The Fitzwilliam Museum acquires its first David Hockney painting

Senate House

University of Cambridge publishes report on Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry

Grant O'Brien, new Head of Visitor Experience at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Grant O'Brien appointed as Head of Visitor Experience at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Gifts from Curating Cambridge

A product image depicting The Great Temple at Abu Simbel - 750 piece jigsaw puzzle

The Great Temple at Abu Simbel - 750 piece jigsaw puzzle

£15.00

A product image depicting Votes for Women Mug

Votes for Women Mug

£8.00

A product image depicting Niwaki mini shears

Niwaki mini shears

£55.00

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