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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 ...
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The following museums and art galleries are located in Cambridge, England: Round Church Visitor Centre — History of the Round Church, the development of Cambridge and the university; Cambridge Museum of Technology — Housed in the sewage pumping station, print room and old machines, local industries and ...
University of Cambridge Museums is a consortium of the eight museums of the University of Cambridge. The consortium works in partnership with the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and other Cambridge University collections. It was awarded Major partner museum status by Arts Council England in 2012. [1] [2] [3] The consortium comprises ...
Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1 August 1745 – 4 February 1816) of Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland, and of FitzWilliam House [1] in the parish of Richmond in Surrey, England, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland who was a benefactor and musical antiquarian who founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ...
Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum; Kettle's Yard is the university's contemporary art gallery; the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology houses the university's collections of local antiquities along with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world; Cambridge University Museum of Zoology houses a wide ...
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is the first official joint portrait of William, Prince of Wales , and Catherine, Princess of Wales (then known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), unveiled at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 23 June 2022 in the presence of the couple. [ 1 ]
Eliezer and Rebecca is a painting by Nicolas Poussin, dated to 1660–1665 by Denis Mahon and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. History