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2025 Exhibition and Major Displays Programme

The Fitzwilliam Museum announces its programme of major exhibitions and displays that confront enduring issues from the past that remain powerfully present in our lives today. ...

13 November 2024

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Jan Davidsz de Heem A banquet still life, 1643, oil on canvas, 155 x 211 cm, Private Collection, New York.

Sir Richard Heaton announced as New Chair of Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate

The museum is delighted to announce Sir Richard Heaton KCB,the Warden of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, as the new Chair of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Syndicate. Sir Richard succeeds Cathe...

30 September 2024

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Rare Japanese prints of glamour and eroticism go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum

A new display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, 'Women in Japanese Prints', opening 20 August until 17 November 2024, will reveal the diverse representation of women during a unique era of Japan...

20 August 2024

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Harukawa Goshichi, Woman seen through a window gazing at a book of actors, c.1820–30 Surimono (luxury print). Colour print from woodblocks, with metallic pigment and blind embossing.

Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

This autumn, the Fitzwilliam Museum will present 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place', a major exhibition by one of the leading contemporary artists working today. Alongside two dedicated galleries of Li...

2 August 2024

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Glenn Ligon photographed at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, December 2023

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

A major new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body', will look back on this pivotal moment when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympi...

9 July 2024

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

The Fitzwilliam Museum’s main painting galleries to reopen following a major refurbishment and redisplay project

On 15 March 2024 the Fitzwilliam Museum’s five main painting galleries will reopen in their entirety following a major refurbishment and redisplay project. The new displays will bring together famo...

11 March 2024

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