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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, 2007 unless specified otherwise ISBN 0 904454 80 0 Production editors: Fiona Brown and Lesley Nolan Design: cantellday www.cantellday.co.uk Printed: The Cloister Press, Cambridge Front cover: The Fitzwilliam Museum portico (detail) This page: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Founder’s Building
Contents Director ‘s Review 5 Exhibitions 9 The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries Of Book Production in the Medieval West 10 'A Touch of the Divine': Drawings by Federico Barocci In British Collections 15 Special Displays 18 Profile: Philip Grierson 21 Education & Public Programmes 27 Information Technology 33 The Fitzwilliam Museum – Open to the World Research 37 Ancient Egypt under the microscope Conservation 41 New Division, new studios, new profile Supporting the Museum 45 Major Acquisitions 49 ‘Thank God for Simon’ 64 Appendices 66 Appendix 1: Syndics, Honorary Keepers, Advisory Council of the Hamilton Kerr Institute and Staff 66 Appendix 2: The Fitzwilliam Museum Development Trust, 68 The Marlay Group, The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum Appendix 3: Financial Information 69 Appendix 4: Performance Indicators 72 Supporters Inside back cover
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