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The Fitzwilliam Museum Published by The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB Tel: 01223 332900 Fax: 01223 332923 Email: fitzmuseum-enquiries@lists.cam.ac.uk www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk The Fitzwilliam Museum is the principal museum of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 by the bequest of Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, an eighteenth-century collector whose gift included funding for the building on Trumpington Street which opened to the public in 1848. Since then the Museum and its collections have continued to grow thanks to generations of benefactors. Today it houses under a single roof works of art surviving from many of the great civilisations of the past, from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the occidental and oriental cultures of the most recent millennia to European and North American art of the last century. Described by the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries as ‘one of the greatest art collections of the nation and a monument of the first importance’, the Fitzwilliam was designated in 1997 as a museum with outstanding collections. Text and photographs © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 2005 unless specified otherwise ISBN 0 904454 69 X Production editors: Fiona Brown and Lesley Nolan Design: cantellday www.cantellday.co.uk Printed by The Cloister Press, Cambridge Front cover: Old meets new: The Courtyard at The Fitzwilliam Museum (detail) This page: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Founder’s Building
Contents Director’s Review 5 Exhibitions 9 The Nature of Impressionism 10 Lucian Freud: Etchings 13 Special Displays 15 Profile: Paul Mellon 17 Education & Public Programmes 23 Information Technology 29 Research 35 Conservation 39 Major Acquisitions 43 Appendices 61 Syndics, Honorary Keepers and Staff 61 Fitzwilliam Museum Trust, Marlay Group, Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum 63 Financial Information 64 Performance Indicators 67 Supporters 68 Courtyard Development Supporters 69 Ways to Support The Fitzwilliam Museum 72
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