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🚨aaaaand the doors are open!
It’s finally here! Come and experience our new exhibition ’A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites’
🖌️ Discover the radical vision of designer William Morris and his circle of artists, makers and activists. From decorative designs to romantic storytelling, their art reflected their wider ambitions for social change and collective action.
🎨 The exhibition brings together rarely seen works from Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal and designers including Kate Faulkner, May Morris and more.
🌀 ’A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites’
Until 3 May 2027
🎟️ Become a Friend for unlimited FREE entry to all our exhibitions with no need to book. Send us a DM and we’ll send you the link.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to book
🎞️ Trailer by @Tomfooleryltd
#FitzwilliamMuseum #WilliamMorris #Cambridge @camunivmuseums @cambridgeuniversity
23 Oct 2026
Huge congratulations to this year’s @artfund #MuseumOfTheYear winner @theboxplymouth 👏🎉 We didn’t win this time, but we’re still buzzing to have been shortlisted!
“Being shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026 is a privilege in itself, and we extend our warmest congratulations to this year’s winner, The Box. It’s been an honour to be in such extraordinary company, alongside a truly sublime group of museums, and we send our admiration to everyone shortlisted this year.” – Dr Luke Syson, Director and Marlay Curator
👏 Congrats to all the museums in the 2026 shortlist – @norwichcastle, @nationalgallery and @vam_east
📍 Come and see why our collection remixes, bold exhibitions and exciting collaborations put us on the shortlist this year
📸 Photos by @lewiser
#FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge @camunivmuseums @cambridgeuniversity
26 Jun 2026
📖 This painting comes from a ragamala set, a collection of Indian paintings, from around 1755. A king can be seen enjoying a monsoon raga – a classical Indian tune composed to capture the mood of the rainy season.
🦚 One woman fans him with a peacock feather while another offers him a drink. In the corner, two musicians serenade with their stringed instruments. It's a lush, romantic scene that captures the fantasies of artists in Mughal South Asia.
🎶 Want to know more? Visit our free display 'A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire' to experience the vibrant world of song, poetry and performance of Mughal South Asia from around 1750 to 1850 and listen to music from the time
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to plan your visit.
🖌️ Raga Megh Malhar, Page from a ragamala set. Murshidabad, around 1755. Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912. Photo © Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge.
#FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge #MuseumVisit
08 Nov 2026
❄️🌡️ Time to bundle up...
As the winter chill sets in, we're looking away from the springy Monets and floral still-lifes for something a bit more cosy, like this rosy-cheeked cherub created by Russian artist Aleksandra Natanovna Latash.
Latash was born in 1909 in Riga, which is now the capital of modern-day Latvia – so she knew a thing or two about the cold! Her Jewish-Russian family later moved to Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), where she became part of the Leningrad School of graphic arts, using lithography to capture the warmth of daily life.
🧤 As the temps start to drop, will you be pulling out your fur coat and mittens?
🖼️ Child with Eskimo Pie. Aleksandra Natanovna Latash. Colour lithograph, height 380 mm (image) x width 335 mm (image); height 440 mm (sheet) x width 405 mm (sheet), 1957. © Aleksandra Natanovna Latash. Photograph © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
#ArtHistory #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
01 Jan 1970
🔥 You know you want it...
🎟️ Free entry to 'A Call to Art', that is! Our exciting new exhibition explores the radical vision and pioneering designs of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite artists.
Become a Friend today for unlimited FREE entry to all our exhibitions with no need to book. Plus, you can enjoy benefits such as
✅ Invites to Friends-only events
✅ 10% discounts in our shop and café @courtyardkitchen_cambridge
✅ A monthly email newsletter with exclusive content
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to find out more and choose the membership package that works for you – including Individual, Joint membership for two and Friend + Guest.
🌀 ’A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites’
Until 3 May 2027
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#WilliamMorris #PreRaphaelites #VisitCambridge #MuseumVisit
06 Nov 2026
💥 'A Call to Art', through your eyes...
From iconic Pre-Raphaelite paintings to textiles, drawings, ceramics and more, we've been keeping an eye on what catches YOUR eye in our new exhibition 👀📸
❤️🔥 Socialist history, women making art, medieval love stories – no matter what you're into, there's something to sink your teeth in to.
‘A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites’ offers a fresh look at one of the most influential movements in art, craft and design, exploring the radical vision of the British designer and activist and his circle.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to book your ticket.
👏 Photo credits to:
@florencemayvintage
@msmarvellousadventures
@andreanerellou
@duckeggdesignss
#FitzwilliamMuseum #PreRaphaelites #WilliamMorris #Cambridge
05 Nov 2026
🎆🎆 Remember, remember the 5th of November...
🔥 As we watch fireworks light up the sky this Bonfire Night, we're reminded of the long history of fireworks all around the world. This 1858 print by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige shows boats lined up next to the Ryogoku Bridge on a summer evening by the Sumida River in Tokyo, Japan.
Fireworks have been a beloved feature of evenings on the river for centuries, dating back to the early 1700s. Today, the Sumidagawa Fireworks Festival remains one of Tokyo's largest and most famous fireworks festivals.
👀 Don't miss the boats lit with lanterns that have gathered near the bridge, and the small crowd of tiny figures watching
🔥 If you're in the UK, will you be watching any fireworks tonight?
🎬 @tomfooleryltd
🌟 Utagawa Hiroshige, Ryôgoku hanabi, 1858, colour print from woodblocks. Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
#BonfireNight #NovemberFifth #GuyFawkesNight #Fireworks #FitzwilliamMuseum
04 Nov 2026
👀 Have you visited yet?
💘 Our new exhibition explores the radical vision and pioneering designs of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Dealing with many of the same issues we still face today, this circle of artists and designers dared to imagine a fairer future with art for all, fuelled by the belief that the power of art and beauty could bring about positive social change.
🎨 From paintings to drawings, textiles, ceramics and manuscripts, 'A Call to Art' brings together rarely seen works from Pre-Raphaelite artists and offers a fresh look at one of the most influential movements in art, craft and design.
🌀 ’A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites’
Until 3 May 2027
🎟️ Become a Friend for unlimited FREE entry to all our exhibitions with no need to book.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to book.
📷 @lewiser
#WilliamMorris #PreRaphaelites #VisitCambridge #MuseumVisit
03 Nov 2026
💰 Did you know buying or selling something spiritual or connected to the church is known as ‘Simony’? Here’s why…
In this painting by Liberale da Verona, we see St Peter on the left and Simon Magus to the right with his arm outstretched holding a purse. Simon is trying to buy the power to perform miracles from the Saint – hence the act is known as Simony.
Buying and selling items connected to the church was a live issue in Europe in the 1400s when this painting was made.
🖌️ The artist sets the scene in a carefully rendered version of an ancient city. Although the spaces are convincingly accurate, the colour is almost playful and the figures have a sway as if moving to music.
🖼️ From Italy in the 1300s to today, discover what unites artists born hundreds of years apart and explore how art of the past inspires bold new visions of what art can be in ‘Essence and Presence’, our free display in gallery 6.
🔍 Liberale da Verona, Simon Magus and His Counterpart Helena Approach St Peter. Part of a narrative sequence from the bottom of an altarpiece (predella). Tempera paint on wood panel, around 1470–75. Photo © the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
#FitzwilliamMuseum #Renaissance #Painting
03 Nov 2026
🧡 Cat lovers will understand
This little scene shows Cupid riding a lion, painted in enamel on a metal bowl. The technique developed in northern Europe in the 1300s, with the French city of Limoges eventually becoming a major centre for enamel production.
By the mid-1600s, Limoges makers were creating smaller decorative objects like this one, rather than the large religious panels that had come before.
This two-handled bowl features a monochrome technique called 'grisaille', which comes from 'gris', the French word for 'grey'. It is also signed by French enamel artist Jacques Laudin. Can you spot the ‘•I•L•' signature in the right corner of the image?
Objects like these were sent as gifts to Chinese emperors from the late 1600s, and Chinese craftspeople later took inspiration, using similar techniques to recreate European-style engravings on porcelain to be sold in both Chinese and overseas markets.
🖌️ See this little lion and more in our newest display – 'An Enamel Revolution' – where you can learn how the art of enamelling evolved through exchanges between China and Europe.
📍 Now open in gallery 26
🎟️ Free entry, no need to book
💡In collaboration with @artmuseumcuhk
🔍 Jacques Laudin I, Two-handled bowl, Limoges, 1650–1695. Copper, painted enamel, gold. Photos © the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
#MuseumVisit #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
02 Nov 2026
🍂🏛️ Autumn has arrived at the Fitz and on the @courtyardkitchen_cambridge menu.
🍲 Try new dishes themed around our 'A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites' exhibition – including forager tarts, orchard harvest stew, cranberry and brie toasties and more. Take your pick!
Come and spend time with us this golden season and wander through galleries featuring Pre-Raphaelite beauties, marble gods from ancient Greece, Italian paintings from the 1500s, contemporary artworks and more.
We've got a bumper crop of free displays as well – the perfect way to duck in from the cold:
🎨 'Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime'
🎼 'A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire'
🌟 'Essence and Presence'
🫖 'An Enamel Revolution: China and the World'
📆 Open Tuesday – Sunday.
🎟️ Book tickets for 'A Call to Art' on our website
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to plan your visit.
📷 Photos 1, 3 and 5 by Thomas Adank. Photos 4 and 6 by @lewiser.
#MuseumVisit #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge #WilliamMorris
01 Nov 2026
🕯️ Gather around, let us tell you a story of murder most fowl!
🎃 It's Halloween, so what better time to recall that old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. This story dates back to the early 1200s, known to some as 'The three living and the three dead'...
💀 Three noblemen rode out into the depths of the woods to hunt. Around a sharp corner, they came face to face with three hideous skeletons, who remind them of their impending death: 'You are what we were. We are what you will be'.
The gruesome tale wasn’t simply to scare you stiff – it was often told as a reminder that life is precious and death is inevitable, even for hunting pigeons!
🎞️ @tomfooleryltd
🖼️ Book of Hours, The Three Living and the Three Dead, c.1490-1510
#FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge #Halloween #Medieval #MementoMori
31 Oct 2026
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