Past exhibitions and displays

Archived exhibitions and displays

What's New XXL

16 May 2025 to 17 August 2025

Now closed

Discovering Dürer

1 April 2025 to 3 August 2025

Now closed

Rise Up

21 February 2025 to 1 June 2025

Now closed

Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem

3 December 2024 to 13 April 2025

Now closed

What's New

17 December 2024 to 23 March 2025

Now closed

Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

20 September 2024 to 2 March 2025

Now closed

Women in Japanese Prints

20 August 2024 to 8 December 2024

Now closed

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

19 July 2024 to 3 November 2024

Now closed

National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge

10 May 2024 to 10 September 2024

Now closed

Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck

30 April 2024 to 4 August 2024

Now closed

Tensions of Belonging: Connecting Cambridge

29 November 2023 to 2 June 2024

Now closed

William Blake’s Universe

23 February 2024 to 19 May 2024

Now closed

What's New

29 November 2023 to 14 April 2024

Now closed

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

8 September 2023 to 7 January 2024

Now closed

Real Families: Stories of Change

6 October 2023 to 7 January 2024

Now closed

Mediterranean Embroideries

18 April 2023 to 19 November 2023

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Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain

2 August 2022 to 30 July 2023

Now closed

Fitzwilliam Favourites in Gallery 3

17 March 2023 to 2 July 2023

Now closed

Women: Makers and Muses

11 October 2022 to 19 June 2023

Now closed

Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

24 February 2023 to 4 June 2023

Now closed

Bearing Witness? Violence and Trauma on Paper

10 January 2023 to 2 April 2023

Now closed

Juxtaposition

25 June 2021 to 31 March 2023

Now closed

Medieval Britain in Colour: 500 Years of Illuminated Manuscripts

18 October 2022 to 22 January 2023

Now closed

Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest

11 October 2022 to 8 January 2023

Now closed

First Official Joint Portrait of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

23 June 2022 to 30 December 2022

Now closed

Prints and Drawings: Changing Displays

11 October 2022 to 30 December 2022

Now closed

The Collection of Charles de Sousy Ricketts and Charles Haslewood Shannon

8 June 2021 to 13 November 2022

Now closed

Alternative narratives of the Greek Bicentenary

9 November 2021 to 25 October 2022

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

3 May 2022 to 29 August 2022

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Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

15 March 2022 to 29 August 2022

Now closed

Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge

5 October 2021 to 24 July 2022

Now closed

Natural Connections

24 May 2022 to 24 July 2022

Now closed

Imploded, burned, turned to ash - Tuesday 21 June

21 June 2022 to 21 June 2022

Now closed

Extraordinary Universe of Peter Apian

22 March 2022 to 19 June 2022

Now closed

Fitz-Stitch

12 April 2022 to 22 May 2022

Now closed

New Display of University Boat Race Trophies in the Courtyard

9 November 2021 to 27 March 2022

Now closed

Turning Heads: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – Rembrandt van Rijn – Anthony van Dyck

17 August 2021 to 20 February 2022

Now closed

Painting with Gold

1 September 2021 to 20 February 2022

Now closed

Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

14 January 2022 to 20 February 2022

Now closed

Gold of the Great Steppe

28 September 2021 to 30 January 2022

Now closed

Global Gold

28 September 2021 to 30 January 2022

Now closed

A True Likeness? Portraits in Word and Image

1 September 2021 to 9 January 2022

Now closed

Scent from Nature: Beauty’s botanical origins

18 May 2021 to 31 October 2021

Now closed

Virtue, Vice & the Senses: Prints 1540–1660

27 July 2021 to 27 September 2021

Now closed

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

2 December 2020 to 5 September 2021

Now closed

The Macclesfield Psalter

16 December 2020 to 31 August 2021

Now closed

Beethoven 250

16 December 2020 to 31 August 2021

Now closed

The Human Touch

18 May 2020 to 1 August 2021

Now closed

Cuttings: Manuscript fragments on the loose!

28 February 2020 to 30 September 2020

Now closed

Feast & Fast

26 November 2019 to 31 August 2020

Now closed

Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection

5 March 2019 to 12 July 2020

Now closed

Poussin's virtual reality

8 October 2019 to 7 June 2020

Now closed

Sharpening Perceptions: How to copy a masterpiece

4 February 2020 to 17 May 2020

Now closed

The Frua-Valsecchi Collection

1 August 2016 to 17 May 2020

Now closed

Illuminating Winter Feasts

18 December 2019 to 31 March 2020

Now closed

Salisbury Family Collection of Studio Ceramics

25 September 2018 to 29 March 2020

Now closed

Inspire: A celebration of children's art

10 December 2019 to 22 March 2020

Now closed

Rembrandt and the nude

24 September 2019 to 23 February 2020

Now closed

John Keats: Presence and absence

8 October 2019 to 9 February 2020

Now closed

Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration

8 October 2019 to 12 January 2020

Now closed

Henry Moore’s Hill Arches (1973)

4 May 2016 to 8 December 2019

Now closed

The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam

23 July 2019 to 10 November 2019

Now closed

Jennifer Lee: A personal selection

11 June 2019 to 22 September 2019

Now closed

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

4 June 2019 to 8 September 2019

Now closed

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

21 May 2019 to 1 September 2019

Now closed

Secrets of a Silent Miniaturist

5 February 2019 to 18 August 2019

Now closed

Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde

7 May 2019 to 4 August 2019

Now closed

Eddington's prehistoric and Roman past

28 January 2019 to 8 July 2019

Now closed

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

26 March 2019 to 30 June 2019

Now closed

The 1920s: Crisis and innovation

29 January 2019 to 30 June 2019

Now closed

The Coffins of Pakepu

24 May 2019 to 25 May 2019

Now closed

Vision: Long Road Sixth Form College Graduate Art Foundation Show

14 May 2019 to 16 May 2019

Now closed

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

22 January 2019 to 12 May 2019

Now closed

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

29 January 2019 to 12 May 2019

Now closed

Whistler & Nature

8 January 2019 to 17 March 2019

Now closed

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

4 December 2018 to 2 March 2019

Now closed

Emma Smith light installation

19 February 2019 to 24 February 2019

Now closed

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

2 October 2018 to 28 January 2019

Now closed

Sampled Lives

6 May 2017 to 13 January 2019

Now closed

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

18 September 2018 to 6 January 2019

Now closed

Amateur Etcher of Distinction: Prints by Francis Seymour Haden

9 October 2018 to 6 January 2019

Now closed

RA250 at the Fitz

13 February 2018 to 31 December 2018

Now closed

Virginia Woolf: An exhibition inspired by her writings

2 October 2018 to 9 December 2018

Now closed

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

31 July 2018 to 11 November 2018

Now closed

1918: Victory and a new Europe

5 June 2018 to 30 September 2018

Now closed

Floral Fantasies

5 June 2018 to 9 September 2018

Now closed

Designed to Impress

13 March 2018 to 2 September 2018

Now closed

Matt Smith's Flux: Parian Unpacked

6 March 2018 to 1 July 2018

Now closed

Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery

20 March 2018 to 17 June 2018

Now closed

Writing in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean

16 January 2018 to 10 June 2018

Now closed

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

27 February 2018 to 3 June 2018

Now closed

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

30 January 2018 to 28 May 2018

Now closed

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

30 January 2018 to 28 May 2018

Now closed

Inspired by Civilisations

27 February 2018 to 6 May 2018

Now closed

Edward Lear

10 April 2018 to 22 April 2018

Now closed

Degas, Desboutin and Rembrandt: parallels in prints

27 October 2017 to 25 February 2018

Now closed

Codebreakers and Groundbreakers

24 October 2017 to 4 February 2018

Now closed

Terra Firma

24 October 2017 to 4 February 2018

Now closed

Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene

12 September 2017 to 21 January 2018

Now closed

Degas: A Passion for Perfection

3 October 2017 to 14 January 2018

Now closed