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Press Releases
Fashioning Switzerland: Portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries
4 June to 15 September 2013
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Published: Fri 3 May 2013
Origins of the Afro Comb
2 July to 3 November 2013
The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
Published: Thu 24 Jan 2013
Quentin Blake: Drawn by Hand
12 February to 12 May 2013
Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media.
Published: Wed 9 Jan 2013
New Director appointed for the Fitzwilliam Museum
The University of Cambridge has appointed a new Director to succeed Timothy Potts at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Image Credit: Caroline Djanogly
Published: Wed 19 Dec 2012
China's White Gold
Contemporary Porcelain from Jingdezhen
18 December 2012 - 1 April 2013
To mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, The Fitzwilliam Museum is showcasing the first major exhibition in this country of more than 80 works created in Jingdezhen by over 50 contemporary ceramicists. Comprising technically brilliant works ranging from the traditional to the avantgarde, the exhibition explores Jingdezhen's legacy, and looks at what it means for artists working there today.
Published: Wed 5 Dec 2012
Fitzwilliam Museum set to acquire Poussin masterpiece as joint £3.9m fundraising campaign with the Art Fund succeeds
Published: Thu 1 Nov 2012
Japanese scenes of winter snow go on display at Fitzwilliam Museum
Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese winter
2 October 2012 to 13 January 2013
Published: Thu 4 Oct 2012
The early work of Jewish artist Gerhart Frankl to go on display in Cambridge
Higher Ground: Prints by Gerhart Frankl (1901-65)
16 October to 30 December 2012
Published: Thu 4 Oct 2012
The Fitzwilliam Museum strives to save national treasure
Published: Fri 10 Aug 2012
The art of modern calligraphy from across the world on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum
10 November 2012 - 13 January 2013 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Curated by Patricia Lovett and Dr Stella Panayotova
Published: Thu 9 Aug 2012
Sea myths set in stone
The Fitzwilliam Museum has acquired a Roman relief sculpture once belonging to Emperor Hadrian.
Published: Fri 29 Jun 2012
Ceramic art, craft and tales from Medieval Cyprus
Glimpses of Medieval Cypriot life and art will be on show this summer at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in a special exhibition of ceramics from the 13th to 16th centuries.
Published: Mon 18 Jun 2012
Wasteland or Wonderland? New Fitzwilliam exhibition explores the wild edges of our cities
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge will be displaying two portfolios of contemporary that inspire ideas about ‘edgelands’ - the forgotten, overlooked hinterlands neither city nor countryside, on the urban edge.
Published: Fri 23 Mar 2012
The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China
In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty. With over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics this is the largest and most important exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.
Published: Thu 1 Mar 2012
Three internationally renowned artists to display work for Fitzwilliam 2012 sculpture exhibition
Published: Tue 21 Feb 2012
New Cambridge exhibition to explore the incredible power inside the humble pencil
Grey Matters: Graphite explores the creative power and versatility of the pencil and its raw material graphite, from the first 17th century drawings on paper and vellum to the latest in contemporary art.
Published: Mon 28 Nov 2011
New light, new colour, new display
Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cézanne return to the Fitzwilliam as famous
Impressionist artworks go back on display
One of the most popular galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has undergone a full renovation and reinstallation. Gallery 5, housing the museum’s remarkable collection of paintings and sculpture by the French Impressionists and other late 19th and early 20thcentury artists has re-opened with a striking new look, colour and display.
Published: Tue 1 Nov 2011
Rare Baroque painting on slate joins Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection
Published: Mon 12 Sep 2011
Vermeers Women: Secrets and Silence
5 October 2011 - 15 January 2012
Final press release with full details of major works.
Published: Wed 24 Aug 2011
Splendour & Power: Imperial Treasures from Vienna
16 August 2011 to 8 January 2012
Hapsburg Imperial Treasures go on display in Cambridge with lost Royal masterpiece
- Fitzwilliam Museum to host only UK showing of collection from the Imperial Treasury of the Hapsburg emperors
- Miseroni’s lost Royal masterpiece reunited with original treasures before going to a private collection
Published: Fri 12 Aug 2011
Summer / Autumn 2011 opening exhibitions at The Fitzwilliam Museum
Published: Thu 2 Jun 2011
Shadows and lights
Fitz opens for after-hours events on Friday 13 May 2011
- Cambridge's Fitzwilliam part of national Museums at Night
- Events include digital spectacle with film and music
- Live samba, swing and song
Published: Mon 9 May 2011
Three thousand years of treasure underfoot: ancient finds go on display in new exhibition
Treasure Under Your Feet
29 March - 4 September 2011 at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Published: Wed 16 Mar 2011
New exhibition of Italian masterworks presents drawings by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and more
Italian Drawings: Highlights from the Collection
8 March - 17 July 2011 (closing date extended from 10 July
Published: Wed 9 Feb 2011
Vermeer takes centre stage in new exhibition revealing intimate domestic worlds of Dutch Golden Age
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
5 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
Published: Thu 3 Feb 2011
Treasures of the Hapsburgs: Fitzwilliam to host only UK showing of precious Imperial collection
Splendour & Power: Imperial Treasures from Vienna
16 August 2011 to 8 January 2012
Published: Thu 3 Feb 2011
European art of 19th-20th centuries in spotlight as one of Museum’s major galleries reopens
Published: Fri 28 Jan 2011
From Italian Renaissance masterworks to contemporary prints: early 2011 at the Fitzwilliam
Published: Wed 8 Dec 2010
Changing lives with creative learning: Fitzwilliam Museum and Soham Schools join national fundraising challenge on 6 December
Published: Tue 30 Nov 2010
Two major seventeenth-century artworks join Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection
Published: Wed 27 Oct 2010
A glimpse of royal Persia: lavish manuscript paintings bring Iran’s 1000 year-old national epic to life
Published: Wed 7 Jul 2010
Japanese sea prints and a Founder’s album: print exhibitions opening at the Fitzwilliam in May
Published: Tue 16 Mar 2010
Fitzwilliam hosts major exhibition of new work by one of Britain’s most distinguished contemporary artists
Maggi Hambling: The Wave 27 April - 8 August 2010
Published: Thu 4 Mar 2010
Annual contemporary sculpture showcase gives Museum’s lawns new look for 2010
Published: Mon 22 Feb 2010
Clouds and myths: the art of Lino Mannocci
Two exhibitions this spring present both the printmaking and the curatorship of this remarkable contemporary artist
Published: Tue 5 Jan 2010
Brand new look for world-class collection of Greek and Roman antiquities
‘Rediscovering Greece & Rome’: Museum’s newly-redisplayed gallery opens 30 January 2010
Published: Thu 3 Dec 2009
Spring 2010 exhibitions at The Fitzwilliam Museum
Contemporary prints, miniature Japanese sculpture and major works by Maggi Hambling feature in the Fitzwilliam's programme of upcoming exhibitions
Published: Mon 23 Nov 2009
A Lifetime of Connoisseurship
Graham Pollard and the Study of the Medal
27 October 2009 - 31 January 2010
Published: Wed 14 Oct 2009
Recent Acquisitions of Drawings and Prints
20 October 2009 - 24 January 2010
Published: Mon 12 Oct 2009
New showcase for contemporary sculpture to launch in the heart of Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam Museum Sculpture Promenade opening 28 April 2009
Published: Wed 25 Mar 2009
Ground-breaking exhibition to reveal Darwin’s impact on nineteenth century art
Endless Forms
Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
The Fitzwilliam Museum 16 June - 4 October 2009
Published: Thu 12 Feb 2009
Changing Faces
Anthony Van Dyck as an Etcher
17 February - 24 May 2009
Rarely-seen portrait etchings by the Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) go on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum this spring.
Published: Tue 20 Jan 2009
Arts of Asia at The Fitzwilliam Museum
Exceptional Chinese jade and Japanese prints in Cambridge this spring
Published: Fri 9 Jan 2009
Forthcoming Exhibitions - 'Palaces in the Night': The Urban Landscape in Whistler's Prints and 'Dreams and Lies': Picasso Prints from the Collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Published: Mon 4 Aug 2008
Forthcoming Exhibition - 'I turned it into a palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum
Published: Fri 1 Aug 2008
From the Land of the Golden Fleece: Tomb Treasures of Ancient Georgia
Published: Thu 24 Jul 2008
Statement regarding a Sèvres porcelain seau crennelé (monteith)
Published: Wed 11 Jun 2008
‘The field calls me to labour’
Watercolours of nineteenth-century rural Britain by Robert Hills and his contemporaries
Published: Thu 8 May 2008
New Exhibitions: Anglo-Saxon coins, nineteenth century watercolours and contemporary etchings feature in new exhibitions
Published: Fri 2 May 2008
Theatrical performance, art workshops and family trails at The Fitzwilliam Museum for Museums and Galleries Month 2008
Published: Fri 25 Apr 2008
New exhibition reveals the unseen Cambridge
Stephen Hawking, Nobel Laureates and academics at the edge of knowledge captured in unique project by Cambridge photographer
Published: Fri 25 Apr 2008
‘Young Advocates’ in Museums
Cambridge museums offer dynamic new scheme to engage local young people
Published: Fri 18 Apr 2008
From Reason to Revolution: Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Published: Tue 23 Oct 2007
Private Pleasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Persia to Paris
Published: Tue 23 Oct 2007
Ethiopian Encounters: A British expedition to Ethiopia in the 1840s
Published: Wed 26 Sep 2007
Contemporary silver masterpieces from Goldsmiths’ Hall set to dazzle audiences in Cambridge
Published: Thu 1 Feb 2007
Literature, image and theatre highlighted in Fitzwilliam Museum autumn exhibitions
Published: Wed 18 Oct 2006
Restored Chinese vase unveiled in ground-breaking conservation exhibition
Published: Mon 7 Aug 2006
New Light on Ancient Egypt
Fitzwilliam Museum’s Egyptian galleries re-open with stunning new displays
Published: Fri 19 May 2006
Adrian Mitchell launches Ancient Egypt-inspired creative writing competition in East Anglia
Published: Wed 12 Apr 2006
Griff Rhys Jones champions Fitzwilliam Museums bid for Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 2005
Published: Thu 5 May 2005
Fitzwilliam Museum applies to Fund of Last Resort to save Macclesfield Psalter
Published: Wed 6 Oct 2004
Drawing Breath Fitzwilliam Museum launches The Big Draw 2004 in the East of England
Published: Thu 30 Sep 2004
The Courtyard Development: The Fitzwilliam Museum relaunches with new facilities and galleries
Published: Mon 28 Jun 2004
New education opportunities at The Fitzwilliam Museum
The £12 million Courtyard Development at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, launching in July 2004, gives the Museum enhanced education facilities alongside new galleries and improved visitor facilities.
Published: Mon 28 Jun 2004