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We are no longer ticketing for general admission. Booking is required for Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean.

We're open Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 - 17:00 | Sundays and Bank Holidays: 12:00 - 17:00

For up-to-date visitor information and queries, please contact tickets@museums.cam.ac.uk, call us on 01223 333230, or visit our FAQ page

Gallery closures and collection updates

Exhibitions and new displays

Shot of Women: makers and muses

Women: Makers and Muses

Included in General admission

Tuesday 11th October 2022 to Sunday 25th June 2023

Silver-gilt tea caddy

Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain

Included in General admission

Tuesday 02nd August 2022 to Sunday 30th July 2023

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

Bearing Witness? Violence and Trauma on Paper

Included in General admission

Tuesday 10th January 2023 to Sunday 02nd April 2023

Discover our galleries

Gallery 32

Gallery 32: Medieval & Renaissance Art

Gallery 24

Gallery 24: Rome & Ancient Sudan

A suit of armour

Gallery 31: Armoury

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Founder's mosaic

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Indian Manuscript

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What are museums for?

In My Mind's Eye

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New Art, New Perspectives

Collections highlights

Two young men

Two Young Men

Model for a Sculpture of George Frideric Handel

Model for a Sculpture of George Frideric Handel

Detail of the wine cup

Wine Cup

Our research

Children drawing in a gallery in response to Degas' work

Lines of Enquiry

Sceat

Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC)

A chinese bronze from the Museum's collection

To be Treasured for a Thousand Years

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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

Senate House

University of Cambridge publishes report on Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry

Gifts from Curating Cambridge

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Map Sampler - A5 journal

£10.00

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Auriculas - Notecard pack

£6.00

A product image depicting Pink Flowers - Notecard pack

Pink Flowers - Notecard pack

£6.00

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