The Fitzwilliam Museum

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Gold of the Great Steppe

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Current exhibitions and new displays

Painting with Gold display

Painting with Gold

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Wednesday 01st September 2021 to Sunday 27th February 2022

Gold Sheath with Saka-Scythian animal style deer decoration, Eleke Sazy.

Gold of the Great Steppe

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Tuesday 28th September 2021 to Sunday 30th January 2022

'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

Discover our galleries

A view of gallery 1

Gallery 1: British and European Art, 19th–20th Century

A detail of the ceiling of the Founder's entrance

Founder's Entrance

The Octagon gallery

Gallery 10: Octagon Exhibitions

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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

Installation in Gallery 26

Look in wonder at Magdalene Odundo's skills

An extract from the Macclesfield psalter

Seek Illumination

Collections highlights

A Korean Kundika

Kundika

Decanter, 1865

Decanter

Before

Before

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

An extract of one of our manuscripts

MINIARE

One of our polychromatic pieces in the collection

Polychromy Revealed

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 Map Sampler - Lens and screen cloth

Map Sampler - Lens and screen cloth

£4.00

A product image depicting The Bridesmaid - Face mask

The Bridesmaid - Face mask

£7.00

A product image depicting Butterflies of a Cambridge Meadow - Lens and screen cloth

Butterflies of a Cambridge Meadow - Lens and screen cloth

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