The Fitzwilliam Museum

Fitzwilliam Museum is a museum of art and antiquity at the University of Cambridge. The facility has five departments: Antiquity, Applied Arts, Coins and medals, Manuscripts and printed books, and Pictures, drawings and graphics. Together, they include exhibits from ancient Egypt, Nubia, Greece and Rome, as well as Cypriot and Asian art, including Japanese, Chinese and Indian.

You can see ceramics and glass, furniture and clocks, as well as illuminated books and musical manuscripts. Also collected images include Titian, Van Dyck, Monet and Picasso. In addition, there are miniatures, drawings and watercolors. The most interesting works in the collection include reliefs from Persepolis. It also houses the largest collection of 16th-century manuscripts of Elizabethan music written by the greatest composers of that time, such as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis.

The museum was founded in 1816 as a legacy of the library and art collection of 7. Viscount FitzWilliam. He also donated £ 100,000 to the new establishment for development.