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BEGGARSTAFFS : William Nicholson & James Pryde

For the first time, the Beggarstaff Brothers cutting-edge graphic posters will go on show, alongside their finest individual works as painters, many lent from private collections. The exhibition will ...

22 April 2019

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Whistler at the Fitzwilliam Museum: The Gentle Art and Palaces in the Night

The Gentle Art: Friends and strangers and Palaces in the Night: The urban landscape in Whistler’s prints explore the Museum's collection of etchings, drypoints and lithographs by James McNeill Whist...

20 March 2019

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Fitzwilliam Egyptian Coffins

The Fitzwilliam Museum launches a new website to share the results of its in-depth study of the ancient Egyptian coffins collection. ...

20 March 2019

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Making a Nation: Money, image and power in Tudor and Stuart England

Discover how coins and medals change, and were used, as the kingdoms of England and Scotland came together....

28 February 2019

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Whistler and Nature: an exploration of the artist's attitude to the natural world

The exhibition is developed by Compton Verney, in partnership with The Hunterian, University of Glasgow....

10 January 2019

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Gold and precious pigments: The secrets of medieval illuminators revealed in Cambridge

Dazzling treasures combining gold and precious pigments - some of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the world - will go on display for the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary....

3 July 2016

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