Our press releases

The Gentle Art: Friends and strangers and Palaces in the Night: The urban landscape in Whistler’s prints explore the Museum's collection of etchings, drypoints and lithographs by James McNeill Whist...

20 March 2019

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The Fitzwilliam Museum launches a new website to share the results of its in-depth study of the ancient Egyptian coffins collection. ...

20 March 2019

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Discover how coins and medals change, and were used, as the kingdoms of England and Scotland came together....

28 February 2019

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The exhibition is developed by Compton Verney, in partnership with The Hunterian, University of Glasgow....

10 January 2019

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Dazzling treasures combining gold and precious pigments - some of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the world - will go on display for the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary....

3 July 2016

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Cambridge University museum reveals the life of its mysterious founder, including a love affair in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. Today one of the great collections of art in the UK celeb...

3 February 2016

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