Fitzwilliam Museum
About
The Fitzwilliam is Cambridge's great museum — a grand neoclassical building housing collections that rival many national museums. Egyptian sarcophagi, Greek vases, Renaissance paintings, Impressionist masterworks, medieval manuscripts, and English ceramics, all displayed in beautifully renovated galleries. The entrance hall alone, with its sweeping staircase and marble columns, is worth the visit. The art collection is particularly strong — Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Canaletto, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, and Picasso. The antiquities galleries are excellent, with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman collections that a university town probably shouldn't be able to assemble but somehow did. The armour collection is small but choice. It's free, centrally located on Trumpington Street, and you could spend anywhere from an hour to a full day here depending on your appetite. The temporary exhibitions are consistently high-quality. The café is decent. A magnificent museum that suffers only from being overshadowed by the colleges — most Cambridge visitors walk past it, which is their loss.
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ 01223 332900
Tickets & Pricing
Free entry. Some temporary exhibitions ticketed.
Opening Times
Tue-Sat 10:00-17:00, Sun & Bank Holiday Mon 12:00-17:00. Closed Mondays.
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