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Current exhibitions and new displays

The Boat Race Trophies

New Display of University Boat Race Trophies in the Courtyard

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Tuesday 09th November 2021 to Sunday 27th March 2022

Coins

Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

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Friday 14th January 2022 to Sunday 20th February 2022

Painting with Gold display

Painting with Gold

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Wednesday 01st September 2021 to Sunday 27th February 2022

Discover our galleries

Gallery 27: The Glaisher gallery

Gallery 27: European Pottery

The reference library

Gallery 30: Reference Library

Gallery 12 - the Adeane

Gallery 12: The Adeane

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Indian Manuscript

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Things to do

New art tile cover

New Art, New Perspectives

Iranian plate

What are museums for?

In My Mind's Eye

Collections highlights

Study for a fiend's head

Study for a Fiend's Head

Bestiary

Bestiary

Cupid and Psyche

Cupid and Psyche

The Founder's entrance of the museum

The Founder's entrance of the museum

Fugaku sanjû-rokkei (Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji)

Fugaku sanjû-rokkei (Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji)

Butterflies and other insects by Jan van Kessel the Elder

Butterflies and other insects by Jan van Kessel the Elder

Large Moon Jar 1. Hirai, Akiko (2018) Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the Art Fund. © Akiko Hirai.

Large Moon Jar 1. Hirai, Akiko (2018) Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the Art Fund. © Akiko Hirai.

Our research

Medieval coin

Medieval European Coinage

Hayley's letters to Despot

“Most Sacred Things”: the Correspondence of William Hayley (1745 - 1820)

One of our polychromatic pieces in the collection

Polychromy Revealed

Latest news

Founder's Landing at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Refurbishment works at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Jennifer Grindley

Jennifer Grindley appointed as new Head of Communications and External Relations at the Fitzwilliam Museum

John Bingley Garland's The Blood Collages

New acquisitions through the Cultural Gifts Scheme

Gifts from Curating Cambridge

A product image depicting Memoria of All Angels - Christmas card pack

Memoria of All Angels - Christmas card pack

£5.00

A product image depicting Angels by Ciccarello - Advent Card

Angels by Ciccarello - Advent Card

£3.25

A product image depicting Giant Snowballs - Christmas card pack

Giant Snowballs - Christmas card pack

£7.00

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