Fitzwilliam Museum Museums
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art museum of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 by the bequest of the VIIth Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion and contains magnificent collections of works of art and antiquities of national importance.
The Fitzwilliam Museum collections are world-renowned, and span civilizations and millennia. They consist of half a million objects of national and international importance, including antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian, Western Asiatic and Cypriot Art; applied arts, including sculpture, furniture, clocks and rugs; coins and medals; illuminated manuscripts and printed books; paintings, drawings and prints. .
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AddressTrumpington Street, Cambs, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RB
Opening times10am - 5pm
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Attraction typeMuseums
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