Historic and contemporary pieces interrogate city and university’s connections to colonialism An exhibition by the Fitzwilliam Museum will explore Cambridge’s connections to enslavement and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Fitzwilliam Museum's newly rehung galleries - PA Photo “Pointed but respectful”: that’s how the director of Cambridge’s ...

William Blake, "Albion rose" (“Glad Day” or “The Dance of Albion”) (1794–96), Engraving and etching, colour printed with hand colouring on paper (© The Trustees of the British Museum) CAMBRIDGE, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Martin’s portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House, c.1776. And so, the Fitzwilliam Museum ...

When 7th Viscount Richard Fitzwilliam of Mount Merrion died in 1816, who had been educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and received an MA in 1764, he bequeathed his lifetime collection of artwork and ...

Of the world’s many illuminated manuscript collections, that of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is reputedly the finest, the books cocooned in fenland isolation, the terms of the founder’s bequest ...

A rare bronze masterpiece has been gifted to the nation and will go on show at a Cambridge museum. The Apollo Belvedere, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, dates from 1520-22 and is thought to be one of ...

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, has restored its 1848 portico and freshened up its railings. The £430,000 ($724,171) conservation project was funded by the institution and the University ...

The Fitzwilliam Museum has been revamped as part of a major restoration. Work was focused on the Founder's Entrance, with the buildings iconic domed lantern ceiling being completely restored. “The ...

John Graham Pollard, numismatist, museum curator and civic campaigner: born Gillingham, Kent 25 December 1929; Keeper of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum 1966-88, Deputy Director 1969-88; Fellow, ...