Fitzwilliam Museum

British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of Fitzwilliam Museum

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

Example Sentences

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 • Apr. 8, 2024

Best attempted to sell them to a US-based expert who notified historians at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with the police ultimately being informed.

From BBC • May 4, 2023

It recommended the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum should give it back to his descendants.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023

The Fitzwilliam Museum said in a statement after the announcement that “the Museum has cared for the work so that it can now be restored to the heirs of the original owners.”

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Another, of a curiously modern type, occurs in an Hours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, executed about 1445 for Isabel, Duchess of Brittany.

From Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 by Clark, John Willis