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The most famous museum in Cambridge, which no visitor should miss, is the Fitzwilliam Museum in Trumpington Street, a neo-Classical building in Portland stone (1837-48), the masterpiece of its architect George Basevi.
The original collection was bequeathed to the University by the seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam (died 1816).
The Museum contains a magnificent collection of English pottery and china, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, and illuminated manuscripts.
The exceptionally fine gallery has works by Hogarth, Gainsborough and Turner as well as the Impressionists and Dutch Masters of the Baroque (Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Frans Hals and others).
The original collection was bequeathed to the University by the seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam (died 1816).
The Museum contains a magnificent collection of English pottery and china, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, and illuminated manuscripts.
The exceptionally fine gallery has works by Hogarth, Gainsborough and Turner as well as the Impressionists and Dutch Masters of the Baroque (Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Frans Hals and others).
Hobbies & Activities category: Major world-scale museum; Decorative arts display; Paintings, art collections; Glass, porcelain, pottery exhibit
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RB
United Kingdom
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RB
United Kingdom
| Open | Closed | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 12:00 | |
| Closed | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | ||
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| New Year's Day (January 1) Good Friday - Christian May Day / Labor Day (May 1) Christmas - Christian (December 25) Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24) New Year's Eve (December 31) Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26) | ||||||||
The Museum's Greek and Roman and Cypriot galleries (galleries 21 and 22) will close for a major refurbishment on August 4 2008, to re-open summer/autumn 2009.
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