| Today | 8:00AM - 5:00PM on Wed 30 September |
Display of news, events and opportunities |
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Highlight A damned serious business: Waterloo 1815, the battle and its books The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo is being marked in our current exhibition, featuring a selection of the Library’s books, maps and manuscripts to commemorate the most famous battle in modern European history. |
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An impressive display of five modern photographic recreations - printed to large scale - telling the fictional story of Matthew Smith, a young man from North London, who is obsessed with clothes. The modern photographs are based upon images commissioned between 1520 and 1560 by Matthäus Schwarz, one of the most committed fashion innovators of his time. |
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Fashionable among both men and women, these exquisite and elegant containers were one of the most popular accessories in 18th century Europe. They were often used to hold snuff (a scented preparation of powdered tobacco) or sweetmeats. The most lavish and precious boxes were the choice present of royalty and exemplify court culture and fashion en miniature. |
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Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection This exhibition features a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam's most spectacular prints from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, giving visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. |
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Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection This exhibition features a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam's most spectacular prints from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, giving visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, hanging alongside prints by later artists such as Canaletto, Blake and Munch. |
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In 1861, John Ruskin, Turner’s most fervent champion and critic, generously gave twenty-five Turner watercolours to the Fitzwilliam. This display includes works made for engraving, book illustration and vignettes, as well as landscapes. |
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Highlight Ruskin’s Turners The Fitzwilliam Museums’ collection of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner was founded in 1861 by the generous gift of twenty-five watercolours from John Ruskin, Turner’s most fervent champion and critic. |
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Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment A dazzling journey through the decorative arts: from the hand-crafted luxuries of the Renaissance to the first stirrings of mass commerce in the Enlightenment. |
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Highlight Watercolour- Elements of nature Stunning landscapes, exquisite portrait miniatures and delicate flower drawings by masters including Samuel Palmer and Paul Cézanne - the collection of watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in the world. |
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Watercolour: Elements of nature Rarely exhibited, these superb works include miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, flower drawings by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, as well as a series of landscape watercolours by John Constable, Peter de Wint, John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, J. M. Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Paul Nash. |
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Highlight River Stars Reindeer: Imaging Evenki and Orochen communities of Inner Mongolia and Siberia River Stars Reindeer at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology shows previously unseen photographs made by Ethel Lindgren and Sergei Shirokogoroff in the early part of the twentieth century. The exhibition came about through a digital sharing project to reunite present-day Evenki and Orochen communities with these images of their family histories and cultural heritage. |
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Highlight The Power of Paper: 50 Years of Printmaking from Australia, Canada and South Africa From the mid-twentieth century onwards, colonized peoples and indigenous communities began to represent themselves through art in modern media. In Australia, Canada and South Africa, they depicted culture, history and struggle through printmaking. This exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is a revelation of eloquent art made by black and indigenous artists since the 1960s. |
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Highlight Sculpture in the close - free exhibition of contemporary sculptors Jesus College is showcasing contemporary British and Irish sculptors in a free outside exhibition this summer. |
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A rotating exhibition of exceptional works by 15 Royal Academicians, including the Royal Academy’s President, Christopher Le Brun, organised by Wolfson Fine Arts and curated by Anthony Green RA. The exhibition forms part of Wolfson College's 50th anniversary celebrations. |
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Tea & Talk at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Atta Kwami and Pamela Clarkson on Making Relief Prints. Join curators, researchers and conservators at the museum on the first Saturday of the month for an informal behind-the-scenes talk about their work, followed by Tea and Fitzbillies’ famous Chelsea buns. |