Past Exhibitions
England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer: Coins and medals from the 17th-cenutry
Tue 4 October 2011 to Sun 1 April 2012
Glaisher Gallery (27)
Triumph, protection and dreams: The East African headrest in context
Exhibition now extended to Sunday, 25 March
Explore the history, function and significance of the headrest from ancient Egypt to west and central Africa through this special exhibition.
Tue 20 September 2011 to Sun 25 March 2012
Octagon Gallery (10)
Grey matters: Graphite
Tue 29 November 2011 to Sun 11 March 2012
Shiba Gallery (14)
Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin
Tue 6 September 2011 to Sun 4 March 2012
Charrington Print Room (16)
Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence
Wed 5 October 2011 to Sun 15 January 2012
Mellon Gallery (13)
Splendour and Power: Imperial Treasures from Vienna
Tue 16 August 2011 to Sun 15 January 2012
Adeane Gallery (12)
Flower Drawings: Redouté and his Pupils
Tue 19 July 2011 to Sun 30 October 2011
Shiba Gallery (14)
Special Displays
Victorian Style Wars: The Medal in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Tue 31 May 2011 to Sun 2 October 2011
Glaisher Gallery
Treasure Under Your Feet
Tue 29 March 2011 to Sun 4 September 2011
Octagon Gallery (10)
Free
Italian Etchings: The Draughtsman's Print
Tue 22 February 2011 to Mon 29 August 2011
Charrington Print Room (16)
Italian Drawings: Highlights from the Collection
Extended to 17 July
Tue 8 March 2011 to Sun 17 July 2011
Mellon Gallery (13)
Free
Special Displays
Inflation, War and Global Financial Crisis
Mon 22 November 2010 to Sun 29 May 2011
Glaisher Gallery (27)
Free
Special Displays
English Silver Drinking Vessels from the Gray Collection
Mon 15 November 2010 to Fri 1 April 2011
Armoury (31)
Free
Kings, Satraps and Shahs: Persian coinage through the ages
Tue 21 September 2010 to Sun 13 March 2011
Octagon Gallery (10)
Free
Galileo and his contemporaries: Portraits by Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630)
Tue 2 November 2010 to Sun 13 February 2011
Charrington Print Room (16)
Free
Sculpture Promenade 2010
Tue 23 March 2010 to Sat 29 January 2011
Museum lawns fronting Trumpington Street
Free
Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Sat 11 September 2010 to Sun 9 January 2011
Mellon Gallery (13)
Free
Objects of Affection: Pre-Raphaelite Portraits by John Brett
Tue 14 September 2010 to Sun 28 November 2010
Shiba Gallery (14)
Free
Nubia - Past and Present
Tue 5 October 2010 to Sun 31 October 2010
Courtyard Screens
Free
Prized Possessions: Lord Fitzwilliam’s album of prints after Adam Elsheimer
Tue 25 May 2010 to Sun 26 September 2010
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Free
21st Century Engraved Glass
Tue 15 June 2010 to Sun 15 August 2010
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free
Gifts of the Ebb Tide
Tue 18 May 2010 to Sun 15 August 2010
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free
Maggi Hambling: The Wave
Tue 27 April 2010 to Sun 8 August 2010
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Netsuke: Japanese Art in Miniature
Tue 23 February 2010 to Sun 30 May 2010
Octagon Gallery (Gallery 10)
Clouds and Myths: Monotypes by Lino Mannocci
Tue 9 February 2010 to Sun 9 May 2010
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
The Angel and the Virgin: A Brief History of the Annunciation
Tue 9 February 2010 to Sun 9 May 2010
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Sargent, Sickert & Spencer
Tue 8 December 2009 to Mon 5 April 2010
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Free
Special Displays
Matthew Boulton and the Industrial Revolution
Tue 22 September 2009 to Sun 21 March 2010
Glaisher Gallery (Gallery 27)
Free
A Lifetime of Connoisseurship:
Graham Pollard and the study of the medal
Tue 27 October 2009 to Sun 31 January 2010
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free
Sculpture Promenade 2009
Tue 28 April 2009 to Sat 30 January 2010
Museum lawns fronting Trumpington Street
Free
Recent Acquisitions of Drawings & Prints
Tue 20 October 2009 to Sun 24 January 2010
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Lumière
Lithographs by Odilon Redon
Tue 22 September 2009 to Sun 10 January 2010
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Free
Special Displays
Courtyard Installation: '100 Questions'
Tue 10 November 2009 to Sun 29 November 2009
Courtyard
Black to Kemet: Placing Egypt back in Africa
Tue 6 October 2009 to Sun 25 October 2009
Courtyard
Free
Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
Tue 16 June 2009 to Sun 4 October 2009
Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan: Naval Diplomat and Collector
Wed 1 April 2009 to Sun 20 September 2009
Gallery 27
The Immortal Stone -
Chinese jades from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century
Tue 27 January 2009 to Sun 31 May 2009
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free
Changing faces: Anthony Van Dyck as an etcher
Tue 17 February 2009 to Sun 17 May 2009
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Free
Kachōfūgetsu - the natural world in Japanese prints
Tue 17 February 2009 to Sun 17 May 2009
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free
'I Turned it into a Palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum
This exhibition will celebrate one of the most enriching periods in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Directorship of Sir Sydney Cockerell (1908 - 1937).
Tue 4 November 2008 to Tue 17 March 2009
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Dreams and Lies - Picasso prints from the collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Tue 7 October 2008 to Sun 8 February 2009
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free
Palaces in the Night
The urban landscape in Whistler’s prints
Tue 23 September 2008 to Sun 18 January 2009
From the Land of the Golden Fleece: Tomb Treasures of Ancient Georgia
Thu 2 October 2008 to Sun 4 January 2009
Galleries 11 & 12
Bordering the Black Sea: Greeks, 'Barbarians' and their Coins
Thu 2 October 2008 to Sun 4 January 2009
Octagon Gallery (Gallery 10)
Special Displays
Japanese Pottery
Wed 24 September 2008 to Tue 30 December 2008
Glaisher Gallery (Gallery 28)
Artwork from the 'Virtual Egypt' project
Sat 27 September 2008 to Fri 19 December 2008
Education Lobby Area
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and Lady Nevell's Book
Tue 7 October 2008 to Sun 14 December 2008
Gallery 3
Chinese Imperial Jades
Thu 1 May 2008 to Sun 30 November 2008
Chinese Gallery (Gallery 28)
Christopher Le Brun - Fifty Etchings 2005
Tue 20 May 2008 to Sun 28 September 2008
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
On the Shoulders of Giants: Photographic Portraits from the University of Cambridge
Tue 10 June 2008 to Sun 28 September 2008
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round
Fri 23 May 2008 to Sun 7 September 2008
Octagon Gallery (Gallery 10)
'The field calls me to labour': Watercolours of nineteenth-century rural Britain by Robert Hills (1769-1844) and his contemporaries
Tue 27 May 2008 to Sun 7 September 2008
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Made for Export: Chinese Nineteenth-Century Flower Drawings
Tue 29 January 2008 to Sun 11 May 2008
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free Admission
French Tapestry and Illustration
Tue 12 February 2008 to Sun 11 May 2008
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free
From Reason to Revolution: Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Tue 23 October 2007 to Sun 27 January 2008
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Free Admission
Ethiopian Encounters: A British expedition to Ethiopia in the 1840s
Fri 21 September 2007 to Sun 20 January 2008
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free Admission
The Gentle Art: Friends and Strangers in Whistler’s Prints
Tue 4 September 2007 to Sun 13 January 2008
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Free Admission
Private Pleasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Persia to Paris
Tue 23 October 2007 to Sun 6 January 2008
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free Admission
Marc-Henri AUFFÈVE, Sketches of Ethiopia
Fri 21 September 2007 to Wed 21 November 2007
Courtyard
Free Admission
Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007
Thu 24 May 2007 to Sun 23 September 2007
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Free Admission
Paul Mellon: A Cambridge Tribute
Tue 12 June 2007 to Sun 23 September 2007
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free Admission
A passport to the Egyptian After-life: The Book of the Dead of Ramose
Tue 19 June 2007 to Sun 16 September 2007
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free Admission
Vive la différence! The English and French stereotype in satirical prints 1720-1815
Tue 20 March 2007 to Sun 5 August 2007
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Free Admission
Frank Auerbach: Etchings and Drypoints 1954-2006
Tue 6 March 2007 to Sun 10 June 2007
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free Admission
Treasures of Today - Silver from Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, 1980-2006
Fri 2 February 2007 to Sun 29 April 2007
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Free Admission
No Straight Lines
Tue 6 February 2007 to Sun 29 April 2007
Octagon (Gallery 10)
Free Admission
Rembrandt and Saskia
Tue 14 November 2006 to Sun 11 March 2007
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Free Admission
Chasing Happiness: Maurice Maeterlinck, The Blue Bird and England
Tue 3 October 2006 to Sun 7 January 2007
Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14)
Free Admission
Figures on Fabric
Tue 19 September 2006 to Sat 30 December 2006
Octagon Gallery (Gallery 10)
Free Admission
Literary Circles: Artist, author, word and image in Britain 1800-1920
Tue 17 October 2006 to Sat 30 December 2006
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Free Admission
Albrecht Altdorfer in Renaissance Regensburg: Prints of Allegory and Devotion
Tue 11 July 2006 to Sun 5 November 2006
Charrington Print Room (Gallery 16)
Mission Impossible? Ethics and Choices in Conservation
Sat 1 July 2006 to Sun 24 September 2006
Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13)
Heroes of Kabuki: The Jesus College Gift of Japanese Prints
Tue 23 May 2006 to Sun 24 September 2006
Shiba Room (Gallery 14)
Admission Free
The Imagery of War
Tue 9 May 2006 to Tue 29 August 2006
Octagon Gallery (Gallery 10)
Admission Free
Prints of Nature and Artifice: Albrecht Altdorfer (c.1482/5-1538)
Tue 28 February 2006 to Sun 2 July 2006
Charrington Print Room
Admission Free
A Touch of the Divine
Thu 16 February 2006 to Mon 29 May 2006
Mellon Gallery
Admission Free
