Art inspires football kit for Black History Month

The museum worked with the football club, young people from charity Romsey Mill and digital artist Antonio Roberts to design ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

This New Exhibition Explores the Lives of Ancient Egyptian Makers

These talented craftspeople specialized in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, stonemasonry, coffin decorating and other art forms ...
BBC on MSN

Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show

The note about his absence is among dozens of ancient Egyptian everyday objects which have gone on display. The exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge concentrates on the people who built ...
Hyperallergic

The Secret Universe of William Blake’s Art

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Tehran Times

Fitzwilliam Museum adds Abbas Akbari’s artworks to its collection

The museum contains different works from ancient times to the contemporary period and from different civilizations and countries. An important part of the collection of works of the museum is related ...
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The Fitzwilliam Museum : a history / Lucilla Burn

ch. 1 Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion -- ch. 2 Museum before the Museum -- ch. 3 Syndics' Museum, 1848 -- 76 -- ch. 4 First Directors, 1876 -- 1907 -- ch. 5 Sydney Cockerell and the ...
Artnet

Fitzwilliam Museum Gets £430,000 Facelift

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 ...
CNN

Museum reimagines masterpieces in the pandemic, complete with face masks

A UK museum has released reimagined versions of some of its most loved masterpieces, with subjects donning face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, eastern ...
The Arts Desk

Colour, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Safely tucked away in libraries, illuminated manuscripts have survived in far greater numbers and, as such, form the most substantial, if most easily overlooked, legacy of medieval and Renaissance ...
Smithsonian Magazine

U.K. Museum Reimagines Classic Art With Face Masks

As lockdowns lift across the United Kingdom, many museums temporarily shuttered by COVID-19 are facing financial challenges. One such institution, the Cambridge-based Fitzwilliam Museum, has announced ...
Artnet

A Couple Donated a Rare 16th-Century Statue to a U.K. Museum to Cover Their Inheritance Tax Bill

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi’s Apollo Belvedere has been donated to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum in lieu of a £10.5 million ($13.1 million) inheritance tax bill. The rare parcel-gilt bronze with ...