Fitzwilliam Museum

/ ˌfɪtzˈwɪljəm /

noun

1. a museum, attached to Cambridge University and founded in 1816, noted esp for its paintings and collections devoted to the applied arts

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fitzwilliam Museum¹

C19: named after the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, who donated the first collection

Example Sentences

The ceramic will go on display as part of the university's Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum opening on 3 October.

From BBC

The exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has been timed to open a week before the Paris 2024 Games begin.

From BBC

“It’s the most important arts competition,” said Christopher Young, a professor at Cambridge and co-curator of an upcoming exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum about the 1924 Olympics.

From New York Times

This new methodology is exemplified by the research done on the Messel Standing Feather Fan of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, an object whose history reflects the global scale of the trade in materials, the transmission of artisanal knowledge, and the blurred boundaries of consumer cultures in the seventeenth-century Dutch Empire.

From Science Daily

Now a team of researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have solved that mystery by analysing the make-up of coins held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

From Science Daily