Black Atlantic

Power, People, Resistance

8 September 2023 - 7 January 2024

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Courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. © Barbara Walker. Photo Chris Keenan

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

8 September 2023 to 7 January 2024

Showcasing a range of textiles from across the Mediterranean world

Mediterranean Embroideries

18 April 2023 to 3 December 2023

Coming soon

Chantal Joffe, Me, Em and Nat, 2019. Oil on board © Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.

Real Families: Stories of Change

6 October 2023 to 7 January 2024

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Craft workshop picture

Play Make Saturdays

A drawing, Vanishing Point 29 (Duyster) by Barbara Walker

Fitzwilliam Museum announces 2023 exhibition programme

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

The Fitzwilliam Museum acquires its first David Hockney painting

Collections highlights

Decanter, 1865

Decanter

Relief of the heretic king Akhenaten (limestone)

Relief of the Heretic King Akhenaten

Slipware plate - Thomas Toft

Dish

Our research

writing on post it notes and paper

Participation and Collaboration: Agreeing Our Values

Children drawing in a gallery in response to Degas' work

Lines of Enquiry

Detecting at Rendlesham

Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia, 400−800 CE

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