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

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Fitzwilliam Museum

The castle commissioned research on the Hever Rose portrait from the Hamilton Kerr Institute, part of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

“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 ● May 2, 2024

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

A sample of the last of these years is also in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various