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  <updated>2026-04-02T10:49:39+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Experience the vivid colours and bold vision of contemporary British painter Frank Bowling.]]>
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      <updated>2026-04-02T10:49:39+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire]]></title>
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      <id>136</id>
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        <![CDATA[A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire]]>
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      <updated>2025-11-12T12:50:49+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Enamel Revolution: China and the World]]></title>
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      <id>135</id>
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        <![CDATA[Enamels, Enamelling, Enamel, China and the World, An Enamel Revolution, Chinese history]]>
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      <updated>2026-02-17T10:22:42+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[War Craft]]></title>
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      <id>133</id>
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        <![CDATA[War Craft display page]]>
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      <updated>2026-02-25T17:29:12+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Call to Art: William Morris &amp; the Pre-Raphaelites]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[William Morris A Call To Art Pre-Raphaelites display exhibition Fitzwilliam Museum]]>
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      <updated>2026-03-02T17:21:49+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Galleries 1- 5]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Gallery 1 - 5 Fitzwilliam Museum ]]>
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      <updated>2025-11-07T17:55:05+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bound Together: Leather from Northern Nigeria]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Bound Together Leather from Northern Nigeria display exhibition Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge]]>
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      <updated>2026-02-09T10:47:09+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Made in Ancient Egypt (2)]]></title>
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      <id>129</id>
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        <![CDATA[Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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      <updated>2025-08-28T14:51:29+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[What&#039;s New XXL]]></title>
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      <id>128</id>
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        <![CDATA[The What's New XXL display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Explore our latest *What’s New* display, packed with a selection of supersized works which have joined our collection of prints and drawings over the last five years.  

Showcasing various painting, printmaking and drawing techniques from the 1600s to today, our fascinating new display brings together large-scale works on paper that reveal the artists’ creativity and the media’s versatility.  

Discover the contrasts and crossovers between images which are realistic and abstract, urban and rural, organic and human-made, old and new. *What’s New XXL* features works by historic printmakers William Hogarth and Wenceslaus Hollar alongside British modern artists such as Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin, and leading contemporary artists Lubaina Himid and Grayson Perry.  

Gallery 10

**This display is free to visit and there’s no need to book.** 

This display is made possible by the generous donations which help grow our collection in new and exciting ways. Find out more about how you can [support us](https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us) and [make a donation](https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us/make-a-donation) today.  

Grayson Perry, Our Town © Grayson Perry and Paragon | Contemporary Editions Ltd, London.]]>
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      <updated>2025-08-18T15:56:55+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Essence and Presence]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Essence and Presence display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[From Italy in the 1300s to today, discover what unites artists born hundreds of years apart and explore how art of the past inspires bold new visions of what art can be.   
 
Essence and Presence brings together some of the finest examples of early renaissance art in our collection in conversation with works by modern and contemporary artists—from Filippo Lippi, Simone Martini and Domenico Veneziano to William Blake, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Sylvia Snowden and Stanley Spencer.  
 
At first glance these abstract and expressive modern and contemporary artworks appear a world away from the representative realism of the Italian renaissance, but our fascinating new display sheds light on their shared themes, humanity and simplicity.  
 
Artists seeking inspiration continue to look to art of the past. Whether it’s the ‘purity of forms, composition, and symbolism’ which have influenced contemporary Ethiopian-Italian artist Jem Perucchini, the innovative use of perspective which informed British painter Bridget Riley’s disorientating optical illusions, or the concept of salvation amid suffering which modern British artist Graham Sutherland channelled into his visceral abstract paintings blending Christian imagery and the horrors of war. 

Gallery 6

**This display is free to visit and there's no need to book.** 
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      <updated>2026-02-09T17:10:24+00:00</updated>
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      <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[Journeys with Mai]]></title>
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      <id>126</id>
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        <![CDATA[Journeys with Mai display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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      <updated>2026-02-09T10:47:31+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Discovering Dürer]]></title>
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      <id>125</id>
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        <![CDATA[The Fitzwilliam Museum's display of prints by German artist Albrecht Durer]]>
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        <![CDATA[Discover the depth, detail and drama in the works of one of Europe’s most ambitious, experimental and acclaimed pioneers of print, Albrecht Dürer. Propelling the art of printmaking to new heights during the Northern Renaissance of the late 1400s, the German artist not only elevated the status of prints throughout Europe but secured his reputation as one of the very best. 

Our exciting new display *Discovering Dürer* brings together a selection of prints by the artist for the first time since a major conservation project of all 374 of Dürer’s prints in our collection was completed. From tears to repairs, transformative specialised treatments have revealed the fascinating past lives of these prints and preserved them for years to come. Their restoration brings to life Dürer’s varied and skilled mark-making and printing techniques.  

Lose yourself in the details of these intricate prints and experience a master of their craft – the closer you look, the more you’ll see.

Gallery 14

**This display is free to visit and there's no need to book.**

Hero Image: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, Engraving, black carbon ink on paper © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.]]>
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      <updated>2025-08-04T10:01:40+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Made in Ancient Egypt]]></title>
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      <id>124</id>
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        <![CDATA[Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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      <updated>2026-03-05T12:08:22+00:00</updated>
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      <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[Rise Up]]></title>
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      <id>123</id>
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        <![CDATA[Rise Up exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Discover the multifaceted history of the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition in the face of oppression and opposition.  

Bringing together historic artworks and objects in conversation with works by contemporary artists, *Rise Up* explores the battle to abolish the British slave trade and end enslavement between 1750 and 1850, as well as the aftermath, its legacies and the ongoing struggle for equality and social justice today. 

Focusing on the individuals whose contributions were vital to the British abolition story, our latest exhibition shines a light on the often-forgotten Black Georgians and Victorians, and commemorates the resistance leaders and revolutionaries across the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas; from Jamaican freedom fighter, Nanny of the Maroons to Nigerian-born, British-based writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano.  ]]>
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      <updated>2025-09-03T16:33:25+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[A display of Dutch paintings by Jan Davidsz de Heem at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Experience the monumental still-life paintings by Dutch artist Jan Davidsz de Heem, displayed together for the first time ever.  

Heaving with foods, textiles and decorative objects, these four enormous and indulgent tablescape scenes are the highlight of *Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem*. Our fascinating new display explores the phenomenally popular ‘sumptuous still lifes’ known in Dutch as ‘pronkstilleven’, painted in the 1600s at the height of Dutch colonial trade. 

Explore the history behind the artworks, the spoils of global trade and the moral messages behind the compositions. And discover the artist’s extraordinary skills and techniques; from exotic fruits to coveted crustaceans, our state-of-the-art scientific equipment and research has brought to light the ingenious tricks used to capture the texture, colours and luminosity of these luxuries so convincingly with paint. 

**This display is free to visit and there's no need to book.**]]>
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      <updated>2025-04-16T16:38:00+01:00</updated>
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      <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[What&#039;s New]]></title>
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      <id>121</id>
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        <![CDATA[What's New is a display of new works at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Discover some of the exciting new artworks and objects that have joined our collection in the last five years. 

*What’s New* features artworks by contemporary artists such as Tacita Dean, Rhea Dillon, Jake Garfield, David Hockney and Emma Stibbon, and modern artists including Lucian Freud and Naum Gabo, as well as earlier works by artists such as John Varley and Eugène Delacroix. 

Explore themes of portraiture and identity, the body and mortality, and abstraction and materiality through a mix of art and objects dating from the 1600s to today.  

The growth of our collection is made possible by the generous donations of individuals, charities and key supporters such as our [Friends](https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us/become-a-friend) and [Marlay Group](https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us/join-the-marlay-group) patrons, and Art Council England’s Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gift scheme.

Find out more about how your support helps all areas of our work and [become a supporter](https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us) today.

**This display is free to visit and there's no need to book.**]]>
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      <updated>2025-03-26T14:02:15+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Women in Japanese Prints]]></title>
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        <![CDATA['Women in Japanese Prints' display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Transport yourself to Japan in the late 1700s and discover the varied and captivating lives of women represented in print.  

From the ‘decadent’ to the ‘respectable’,  Women in Japanese Prints  explores changing depictions of women under the watchful eye of government censors. In response to strict new rules around excess, indulgence and debauchery, artists sought alternatives to their lavish pictures of fashionable beauties like teahouse waitresses and courtesans. Instead, they placed women in wholesome, everyday scenes – working or visiting places and people, looking after children or playing music. 

Bringing together a small but impressive selection of these delicate prints from our collection, this display not only showcases the printmakers’ technical skills and luxe materials but celebrates the intimate, tender and funny moments which were as recognisable to women then as they are today. 

 Women in Japanese Prints  is an exciting opportunity to take a closer look at these rarely displayed works. 

**This display is free to visit and there's no need to book.**]]>
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      <updated>2024-12-12T17:18:05+00:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck display at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[Discover rarely displayed drawings by many of the greatest Dutch and Flemish artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

Mostly dating from the late 1500s and 1600s, these delicate chalk, pen and ink studies for altarpieces, history and landscape paintings capture both the scenery and people of the Netherlands, from iconic windmills and sand dunes to musicians, street sellers and fishermen.

Transport yourself to the atmospheric scenes of the Dutch Golden Age and explore lively taverns, dappled woods, nighttime bonfires and more. ]]>
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      <updated>2024-08-22T16:21:13+01:00</updated>
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      <title><![CDATA[What&#039;s New]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[What's New is a display of new works at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[**29 November 2023 – 14 April 2024** 

Discover some of the exciting new artworks and objects that have joined our collection in the last five years. 

*What’s New* features artworks by contemporary artists such as Hurvin Anderson, David Hockney and Soheila Sokhanvari, and modern artists including Howard Hodgkin and Naum Gabo, as well as historic Japanese and European works.  

Explore themes of sex and death, portraiture and identity, abstraction and materiality, and the natural world through a mix of art and objects dating from the 1600s to today.  

The growth of our collection is made possible by the generous donations of individuals, charities and key supporters such as the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Art Council England’s Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gift scheme.  

Find out more about how your support helps all areas of our work and [become a supporter](https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us) today.  

Rebel (Portrait of Zinat Moadab). By Soheila Sokhanvari. P.61-2023. Screenprint. © Soheila Sokhanvari. Photograph © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. ]]>
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      <updated>2024-04-17T08:29:28+01:00</updated>
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      <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[Tensions of Belonging: Connecting Cambridge]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Tensions of Belonging - Connecting Cambridge]]>
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        <![CDATA[**29 November 2023 – 2 June 2024**  

Co-curated by our [Connections Through Collections](https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/connections-through-collections) group, this thoughtful display explores the tensions many local residents experience living in Cambridgeshire today.  

Bringing together 20 objects chosen from our collection, Tensions of Belonging explores what happens when local people collaborate in the creation of displays.

This display is a first for the Fitzwilliam Museum. It is a call to action, asking our visitors to tell us what they think about museums. Exploring the tensions that can arise between local people and staff and students of University of Cambridge it also considers wider themes of identity, belonging and the climate crisis.

*‘The Connections project feels like a welcome step by the Fitzwilliam to bring in community members to help break down the many barriers that can prevent people from accessing Cambridge’s museums and art institutions.’* - Jade, CTC group member 

Each of the artworks and objects were carefully chosen by the group’s ten members and range from historic artefacts—such as the silver trowel used to lay the Fitzwilliam Museum’s foundation stone in 1837—to contemporary artworks including a piece by American ceramic artist and performer Shawanda Corbett. 

*‘I chose two objects. Actually two objects chose me... Shawanda Corbett is not just a brilliantly creative person, she is not just any one thing. She is in every way remarkable and completely inspirational.’* - Rick, CTC group member. 

Discover more about the [Connections Through Collections](https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/connections-through-collections) group. 

The curators of the display are: Anasuya, Isaac, Jade Pollard-Crowe, Jacqui, Kath, Rick, Rob Hales, Sue, Susan and Tim.

Image: Mina’i Ware bowl, c.1170-1220, made in Kashan, Iran. Purchased with the Glaisher Fund, C.129-1935; Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, C.9-1923

Design credit: Wolfe Hall.]]>
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      <updated>2024-06-03T15:00:08+01:00</updated>
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