Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Fitzwilliam Museum's newly rehung galleries - PA Photo “Pointed but respectful”: that’s how the director of Cambridge’s ...

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

There are rare records of women’s voices in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially ordinary middle and lower class women. An exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum is ...

Sketch of Cicely Alexander, who sat for piece more than 70 times, joins two other pastels from same family collection A filmy pastel sketch of a young girl in her best frock – one of the most patient ...

Historic and contemporary pieces interrogate city and university’s connections to colonialism An exhibition by the Fitzwilliam Museum will explore Cambridge’s connections to enslavement and ...

Richard Fitzwilliam died on 4 February 1816, leaving 144 paintings, 10,000 books, albums of Old Master drawings, medieval manuscripts and musical scores to Cambridge University The forgotten story of ...