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Throughout history, islands have been romanticised as remote places quite unlike the mainland. A major new exhibition Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean (24 February – 4 June) will transport...

9 February 2023

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The first major exhibition to present a world history of protest through currencies that have been mutilated as cries of anger, injustice, or despair from the last 250 years. Defaced! showcases a new ...

15 August 2022

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In this beautifully considered exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moments in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere ...

1 April 2022

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David Hockney - one of the most popular and influential British artists of our time - will take over The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College in the first exhibition to explore th...

21 February 2022

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For the first time in the history of The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race both the Men’s and Women’s Boat Race trophies will go on public display in the Courtyard of the Fitzwilliam Muse...

5 November 2021

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Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge (5 October 2021 - 24 July 2022) marks 50 years since Odundo moved from Kenya to Cambridge, and brings together a selection of the global ceramics from Cambridge collectio...

4 October 2021

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