The Fitzwilliam Museum shortlisted for Kids in Museums 'Family Friendly Museum' Award
The Fitzwilliam Museum has been shortlisted for the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award for 'Best Accessible Museum.'
Fun in store for families at the Fitzwilliam this summer
The Fitzwilliam Museum is ready for the summer holidays with exhibitions, challenges for young people, guides for families and a whole manner of free activities. As part of the University of Cambridge Museums Summer at the Museums programme, The Fitzwilliam will be running Family Art Week, from Tuesday 30 July – Friday 2 August.
New acquisition celebrated with guest speaker from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
To commemorate its recent bicentenary year, Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum acquired a newly discovered portrait by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904),one of the great French painters of the 19th century.
Fitzwilliam Museum announces 2017 business partners
The Fitzwilliam Museum announces today the businesses which are supporting the museum through sponsorship in 2017.
Fitzwilliam succeeds in saving Poussin masterpiece for the nation
A campaign by the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Art Fund to raise £3.9m to enable the museum to acquire Nicolas Poussin’s masterpiece Extreme Unction (c. 1638-40) has reached a successful conclusion with the help of a substantial grant of £3,021,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the acquisition and outreach work, and almost £1m in donations from members of the public and charitable…