The Fitzwilliam Museum

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Closed 24th December to 27th December 2021 and 31st December 2021 to 1st January 2022 inclusive closed Gallery closures and collection updates

Gold of the Great Steppe

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Current exhibitions and new displays

Scent from Nature Exhibition Poster

Scent from Nature: Beauty’s botanical origins

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Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Sunday 31st October 2021

'First Flight' - Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Turning Heads: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – Rembrandt van Rijn – Anthony van Dyck

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Tuesday 17th August 2021 to Sunday 20th February 2022

Pegasus Drinking from the Fountain of Hippocrene, with miniature of Edith Emma Cooper. Miniature painted and pendant designed by Charles de Sousy Ricketts, made by Carlo & Arthur Giuliano, 1901 (M/P.

The Collection of Charles de Sousy Ricketts and Charles Haslewood Shannon

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Tuesday 08th June 2021 to Friday 31st December 2021

Discover our galleries

Interior of Gallery 8

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

Interior of gallery 6 - the Upper Marley - seen from gallery 3

Gallery 6

Gallery 27: The Glaisher gallery

Gallery 27: European Pottery

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Rossetti's Dante

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The Marlay Group

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Indian Manuscript

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Things to do

In My Mind's Eye

A Yoshitoshi image

Discover Yoshitoshi's work

Afro comb from Cameroon

Learn about Afro combs

Collections highlights

'The sleep of reason produces monsters', plate from *Los Caprichos*

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Gratian's Decretum

Gratian's Decretum

A Miracle of St Zenobius

A Miracle of St Zenobius

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

A conservator at work

Conserv'd

An extract of one of our manuscripts

MINIARE

Hayley's letters to Despot

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

Latest news

Image of Catherine Arnold

Catherine Arnold announced as the first female Chair of The Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate

Recumbent Golden stag plaque

Ancient Gold treasures from Kazakhstan on show in UK first

Sir Nicholas Goodison

Sir Nicholas Goodison (16 May 1934 – 7 July 2021)

Gifts from Curating Cambridge

A product image depicting Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum

Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum

£19.99

A product image depicting Niwaki mini shears

Niwaki mini shears

£55.00

A product image depicting Elizabeth Siddal - Art print

Elizabeth Siddal - Art print

£30.00

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