Official website (http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/)
Fitzwilliam Museum
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art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Key facts
- Established
- 1816, by Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam
- Location
- Cambridge , England
- Type
- University Museum of fine art and antiquities
- Collection size
- approx. 600,000
- Visitors
- 493,612 (2025)
- Director
- Luke Syson
- Website
- www .fitzmuseum .cam .ac .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
The Fitzwilliam Museum - Welcome to the Museum
Welcome to the Website for the Fitzwilliam Museum, the University of Cambridge's principal museum
fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk →The Fitzwilliam Museum is the lead partner of the spectacular collections of the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) and Botanic Garden. From antiquity to the present day, the Fitzwilliam houses a world-renowned collection of over half a million beautiful works of art, masterpiece paintings and historical artefacts.
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Encyclopedic overview
Saint Geminianus, from a pentaptych by Simone Martini (c. 1284–1344)
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745–1816), and comprises one of the best collections of antiquities and modern art in western Europe. With over half a million objects and artworks in its collections, the displays in the museum explore world history and art from antiquity to the present. The treasures of the museum include artworks by Monet, Picasso, Rubens, Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van Dyck, and Canaletto, as well as a winged bas-relief from Nimrud. Admission to the public is always free.
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