Past exhibitions and displays

Archived exhibitions and displays

Harukawa Goshichi (active 1790s –1820s), Woman seen through a window gazing at a book of actors

Women in Japanese Prints

20 August 2024 to 8 December 2024

Now closed

Robert Delaunay, The Runners, c.1924, oil on canvas. The National Museum of Serbia

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

19 July 2024 to 3 November 2024

Now closed

National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge

National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge

10 May 2024 to 10 September 2024

Now closed

Pencil drawing for Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck display

Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck

30 April 2024 to 4 August 2024

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An image of a patterned ceramic plate which has a pixelated dotted effect overlaid with a blue tone wash.

Tensions of Belonging: Connecting Cambridge

29 November 2023 to 2 June 2024

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William Blake Image

William Blake’s Universe

23 February 2024 to 19 May 2024

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Screenprint by the artist Soheila Sokhanvari. A grayscale portrait of a young woman smoking with a colourful abstract background

What's New

29 November 2023 to 14 April 2024

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Courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. © Barbara Walker. Photo Chris Keenan

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

8 September 2023 to 7 January 2024

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Chantal Joffe, Me, Em and Nat, 2019. Oil on board © Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.

Real Families: Stories of Change

6 October 2023 to 7 January 2024

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Showcasing a range of textiles from across the Mediterranean world

Mediterranean Embroideries

18 April 2023 to 19 November 2023

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Silver-gilt tea caddy

Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain

2 August 2022 to 30 July 2023

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The Bridesmaid by John Everett Millais

Fitzwilliam Favourites in Gallery 3

17 March 2023 to 2 July 2023

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Image from Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

24 February 2023 to 4 June 2023

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

Bearing Witness? Violence and Trauma on Paper

10 January 2023 to 2 April 2023

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The Bird Psalter, London, c. 1284. Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 2-1954, fol. 1r

Medieval Britain in Colour: 500 Years of Illuminated Manuscripts

18 October 2022 to 22 January 2023

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'Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest'

Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest

11 October 2022 to 8 January 2023

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Portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

First Official Joint Portrait of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

23 June 2022 to 30 December 2022

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Image of the Shiba Gallery

Prints and Drawings: Changing Displays

11 October 2022 to 30 December 2022

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Pegasus Drinking from the Fountain of Hippocrene, with miniature of Edith Emma Cooper. Miniature painted and pendant designed by Charles de Sousy Ricketts, made by Carlo & Arthur Giuliano, 1901 (M/P.

The Collection of Charles de Sousy Ricketts and Charles Haslewood Shannon

8 June 2021 to 13 November 2022

Now closed

The Acropolis of Athens "The Works of Lord Byron" (London, John Murray, 1832-4)

Alternative narratives of the Greek Bicentenary

9 November 2021 to 25 October 2022

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Johann Jakob Frey, Cloud Study (3). Private collection. Photo © Artcurial

True to Nature: Open-air Painting in Europe 1780-1870

3 May 2022 to 29 August 2022

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David Hockney self-portrait painting

Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

15 March 2022 to 29 August 2022

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

Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge

5 October 2021 to 24 July 2022

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Print of a starfish fossil. Ophioderma by Mollie Sims, 2022.

Natural Connections

24 May 2022 to 24 July 2022

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Issam Kourbaj, artist

Imploded, burned, turned to ash - Tuesday 21 June

21 June 2022 to 21 June 2022

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Crest from Appian

Extraordinary Universe of Peter Apian

22 March 2022 to 19 June 2022

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Fitz-Stitch Quilt 2

Fitz-Stitch

12 April 2022 to 22 May 2022

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The Boat Race Trophies

New Display of University Boat Race Trophies in the Courtyard

9 November 2021 to 27 March 2022

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'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

17 August 2021 to 20 February 2022

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Painting with Gold display

Painting with Gold

1 September 2021 to 20 February 2022

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Coins

Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

14 January 2022 to 20 February 2022

Now closed

Gold running deer

Gold of the Great Steppe

28 September 2021 to 30 January 2022

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Gold coin

Global Gold

28 September 2021 to 30 January 2022

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A True Likeness? Portraits in Word and Image display

A True Likeness? Portraits in Word and Image

1 September 2021 to 9 January 2022

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Scent from Nature Exhibition Poster

Scent from Nature: Beauty’s botanical origins

18 May 2021 to 31 October 2021

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Virtue and Vice

Virtue, Vice & the Senses: Prints 1540–1660

27 July 2021 to 27 September 2021

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Issam's display of soap eye idols

Don't Wash Your Hands: Neither Light Agrees To Enter The Eyes Nor Air The Lungs

2 December 2020 to 5 September 2021

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A cutting from the Macclesfield Psalter

The Macclesfield Psalter

16 December 2020 to 31 August 2021

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Beethoven Manuscripts Display

Beethoven 250

16 December 2020 to 31 August 2021

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Exhibition Poster for The Human Touch

The Human Touch

18 May 2020 to 1 August 2021

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A Marlay bequest cutting

Cuttings: Manuscript fragments on the loose!

28 February 2020 to 30 September 2020

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The Baroque feasting table in Feast and Fast

Feast & Fast

26 November 2019 to 31 August 2020

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One of the fans in the exhibition

Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection

5 March 2019 to 12 July 2020

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Image: Nicolas Poussin, Extreme Unction, 1638-40 (detail)

Poussin's virtual reality

8 October 2019 to 7 June 2020

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Still life reconstruction by Spike Bucklow

Sharpening Perceptions: How to copy a masterpiece

4 February 2020 to 17 May 2020

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Favrile glass vase, c.1900, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) for Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. Lent by the Frua-Valsecchi Collection, LL.115-2016

The Frua-Valsecchi Collection

1 August 2016 to 17 May 2020

Now closed

Marlay Cutting 13A

Illuminating Winter Feasts

18 December 2019 to 31 March 2020

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Ceramics on display in gallery 27

Salisbury Family Collection of Studio Ceramics

25 September 2018 to 29 March 2020

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A drawing from Wilburton Primary School

Inspire: A celebration of children's art

10 December 2019 to 22 March 2020

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A female nude drawn by Rembrandt

Rembrandt and the nude

24 September 2019 to 23 February 2020

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Keat's Ode to a Nightingale manuscript

John Keats: Presence and absence

8 October 2019 to 9 February 2020

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Seeing sound intro image

Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration

8 October 2019 to 12 January 2020

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Hill Arches, 1973, bronze. The Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977. Reproduced by permission of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Henry Moore’s Hill Arches (1973)

4 May 2016 to 8 December 2019

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Jan Adam Kruseman (1804-1862), The Great Belzoni

The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam

23 July 2019 to 10 November 2019

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Earthenware Bactrian Camel, Chinese, c. 618-907

Jennifer Lee: A personal selection

11 June 2019 to 22 September 2019

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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: The River at Battersea, 1878

Palaces in the Night: The urban landscape in Whistler’s prints

4 June 2019 to 8 September 2019

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Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Gertrude Leveson-Gower, 4th Duchess of Bedford, c.1767

Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009–19 Exhibition Two

21 May 2019 to 1 September 2019

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An Isaac Oliver miniature

Secrets of a Silent Miniaturist

5 February 2019 to 18 August 2019

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Beggarstaffs exhibition banner

Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde

7 May 2019 to 4 August 2019

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Viewing the Eddington Archaeological finds in the temporary cabinet

Eddington's prehistoric and Roman past

28 January 2019 to 8 July 2019

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Gold sovereign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) struck at the Tower of London 1584-7

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

26 March 2019 to 30 June 2019

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Pierre Turin (1891-1968), Paris International Exhibition of Arts Decoratifs, 1925

The 1920s: Crisis and innovation

29 January 2019 to 30 June 2019

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The inner coffin of Pakepu, c.680– 664 BC (detail)

The Coffins of Pakepu

24 May 2019 to 25 May 2019

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Vision Flyer

Vision: Long Road Sixth Form College Graduate Art Foundation Show

14 May 2019 to 16 May 2019

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Valerio Castello (1624-59), The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, over an underdrawing in black chalk, squared in red chalk

Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009 –19 Exhibition One

22 January 2019 to 12 May 2019

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Image: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), En Plein Soleil, from ‘Twelve Etchings from Nature’

The Gentle Art: Friends and strangers in Whistler’s prints

29 January 2019 to 12 May 2019

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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1875 – 1877 © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

Whistler & Nature

8 January 2019 to 17 March 2019

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), Ricorditi di me che son la Pia (from Dante’s Purgatorio), 1868

Collecting and Giving: Highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor bequest

4 December 2018 to 2 March 2019

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Emma Smith installation

Emma Smith light installation

19 February 2019 to 24 February 2019

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Vespasian Judea Capta Sestertius

Jerusalem: Coinage and empire from antiquity to the 19th century

2 October 2018 to 28 January 2019

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Sampled Lives Flyer

Sampled Lives

6 May 2017 to 13 January 2019

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Norman Ackroyd (born 1938), Balmoral Forest, Loch Muick, 2002 © Norman Ackroyd

Print REbels: Haden, Palmer, Whistler and the origins of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

18 September 2018 to 6 January 2019

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Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), The Little Boat House, c.1877

Amateur Etcher of Distinction: Prints by Francis Seymour Haden

9 October 2018 to 6 January 2019

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Rodin's Man with Broken Nose

RA250 at the Fitz

13 February 2018 to 31 December 2018

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Image by France-Lise McGurn © The artist

Virginia Woolf: An exhibition inspired by her writings

2 October 2018 to 9 December 2018

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Pendant: Pegasus Drinking from the Fountain of Hippocrene. Carlo & Arthur Giuliano & Ricketts, Charles de Sousy (British, 1866-1931). Pendant of gold and enamel set with pearls, decorated on the front

Designers & Jewellery 1850–1940: Jewellery & Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum

31 July 2018 to 11 November 2018

Now closed

Victorious French Army, December 1918, medal by Henri Nocq

1918: Victory and a new Europe

5 June 2018 to 30 September 2018

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Floral Fantasies

Floral Fantasies

5 June 2018 to 9 September 2018

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Designed to Impress

Designed to Impress

13 March 2018 to 2 September 2018

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Flux

Matt Smith's Flux: Parian Unpacked

6 March 2018 to 1 July 2018

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Halima Cassel, Virtues of Unity © The Artist • Photography by Jon Stokes

Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery

20 March 2018 to 17 June 2018

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Writing in Cyprus

Writing in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean

16 January 2018 to 10 June 2018

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Notgeld

Inflation, Identity and Nationalism: German emergency money between the wars

27 February 2018 to 3 June 2018

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C.996 1928

Love-themed ceramics from the J.W.L. Glaisher collection

30 January 2018 to 28 May 2018

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Object of my Affection card

The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection

30 January 2018 to 28 May 2018

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Egyptian Coffin Portrait

Inspired by Civilisations

27 February 2018 to 6 May 2018

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Edward Lear Watercolour

Edward Lear

10 April 2018 to 22 April 2018

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Rembrandt Etching

Degas, Desboutin and Rembrandt: parallels in prints

27 October 2017 to 25 February 2018

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The Enigma Machine

Codebreakers and Groundbreakers

24 October 2017 to 4 February 2018

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Pallavi Paul

Terra Firma

24 October 2017 to 4 February 2018

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Caricature

Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene

12 September 2017 to 21 January 2018

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Degas Dancer sketch

Degas: A Passion for Perfection

3 October 2017 to 14 January 2018

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Hugo Dalton Lightdrawing

Hugo Dalton: the revival lightdrawings

21 November 2017 to 14 January 2018

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Peace and War medal

Peace and War: 1900-1940

4 July 2017 to 29 October 2017

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Honey from Many Flowers

Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls

14 March 2017 to 10 September 2017

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From Kabul to Kolkata image

From Kabul to Kolkata: highlights of Indian painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum

29 May 2017 to 3 September 2017

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Christopher Wood (1901 –1930), Building the Boat, Tréboul, 1930 © Kettle’s Yard

Sea to Shore: paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood

1 April 2017 to 27 August 2017

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Dark Water, Burning World

Lesbos and Syria

15 March 2017 to 31 July 2017

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Osservanza image

Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy

7 March 2017 to 4 June 2017

Now closed

A cutting from a Marlay bequest manuscript

COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts

30 July 2016 to 2 January 2017

Now closed