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

'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

Shot of Women: makers and muses

Women: makers and muses

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Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Tuesday 01st March 2022

Pot, burnished earthenware. Made by Magdalene Odundo, c. 1983 © Magdalene Odundo. Photograph © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge

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Tuesday 05th October 2021 to Sunday 24th July 2022

Discover our galleries

Interior of Gallery 8

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

The Museum's courtyard and cafe

The Courtyard

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

Gallery 6

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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

Citizen Science

An extract from the Macclesfield psalter

Seek Illumination

Gust of wind

Look, Think, Do with your family

Collections highlights

Death mask of Oliver Cromwell

Death Mask of Oliver Cromwell

Mosque lamp

Mosque Lamp

Camels, c.1962

Camels

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

Portrait of Thomas Cromwell - Copyright.Paola Ricciardi/St John’s College Cambridge

New light on Henry VIII’s Great Bible

Detecting at Rendlesham

Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia, 400−800 CE

The refurbished Ancient Egyptian gallery

Ancient Egypt: gallery redisplay

Latest news

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Two new podcast series

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

Gifts from Curating Cambridge

A product image depicting Rocks at Port-Coton - Art print

Rocks at Port-Coton - Art print

£30.00

A product image depicting The Sleeping Dragon Plum Tree at Kameido - Christmas card pack

The Sleeping Dragon Plum Tree at Kameido - Christmas card pack

£7.00

A product image depicting Rising Tide - Lanyard

Rising Tide - Lanyard

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