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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prints bring researchers "closer to the ancient craftsmen" who worked on the coffins, the museum said Three-thousand-year-old fingerprints have been found on the lid of an Egyptian coffin by ...

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, ...

A boy who wrote to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to ask how to become a 'professor of swords' got a behind-the-scenes tour of its medieval swords not normally seen by the public. Anton ...

The prints bring researchers "closer to the ancient craftsmen" who worked on the coffins, the museum said Three-thousand-year-old fingerprints have been found on the lid of an Egyptian coffin by ...