There are rare records of women’s voices in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially ordinary middle and lower class women. An exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum is ...

Archaeologists found a complete handprint impressed in clay while the person was creating Ancient Egyptian pottery some 4,000 ...

One of the Fitzwilliam Museum's newly rehung galleries - PA Photo “Pointed but respectful”: that’s how the director of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, Luke Syson, describes the new atmosphere inside ...

Hampstead Heath by John Constable at the Fitzwilliam Museum, which has warned of the potential to create an 'implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong' - ...

An art museum in the United Kingdom is making news for overhauling its galleries, saying idyllic paintings of the English countryside can spark "nationalist feeling" in viewers. Cambridge University’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

ART & DESIGN STYLES: FROM C 1960. The remarkable gift of contemporary crafts bestowed on the Fitzwilliam Museum by Nicholas and Judith Goodison is the subject of this highly illustrated book. Built up ...

From March 7, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge will display to the public a number of religious works rescued from the Italian region of Marche, which was affected by lethal earthquakes that shook ...

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the U.K. government’s Art Fund are trying to raise $6.2 million to purchase a painting by Nicholas Poussin with the great title Extreme Unction (1639). If they ...

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 ...