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

Latest news

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

Ichikawa Ichizo III as Rokusaburo the Carpenter,

Woodblock Print

The Betrayal of Christ

The Betrayal of Christ

Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece, 1937

Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece

Our research

School children in the Antiquities gallery

Practical Evaluation

clay models of birds made by children

The Museum and Me

Constable's Sky Study with a shaft of sunlight painted in 1822. This image shows dark clouds with a ray of sunlight streaming through.

Walking the Landscape

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Founder's mosaic

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Indian Manuscript

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A Race on the Round Course at Newmarket - Art print

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Landscape - Art print

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A Robin - Christmas card pack

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