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46 Supporting the Museum Supporting the Museum ABOVE RIGHT Exhibition sponsors SG Hambros with the Director at the Private View of ‘A Touch of the Divine’ RIGHT Paintings conservation at the Hamilton Kerr Institute FAR RIGHT A Waitrose corporate event in the Museum Courtyard Like the University to which it belongs, the Museum depends upon a wide range of funding sources. A glance at the financial summary (pages 64-65) makes it clear that while 43% of annual income is provided by the University, including restricted endowment funds, a further 30% is derived from the public purse (via the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council). For the balance the Museum relies on grants and donations from trusts, foundations and individuals whose support is essential in maintaining the highest standards of care for the collections, their display and interpretation. The collections continue to grow thanks to gifts and bequests, including those works of art which the Treasury accepts in lieu of capital taxes and allocates to the Museum according to testators’ wishes. Dedicated acquisitions funds enable the Museum to go out into the market place from time to time although for major purchases it is heavily dependent on grants from the Art Fund, the Heritage Lottery and Memorial Funds and the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria & Albert Museum on behalf of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The museum also has a duty of care towards the collections it holds in trust for this and future generations. The Hamilton Kerr Institute is recognised internationally as a research-based centre for the conservation of paintings. Even so it requires funding annually to sustain its ambitious programme of training and treatments. The Museum acknowledges the contributions made by foundations as well as corporate and individual sponsors in this and other areas of collections care. A very generous 800th Anniversary gift has underwritten the cost of what has become the Hamish Maxwell Conservatorship of Objects and, thanks to their generosity, the law firm Hewitsons of Cambridge will be forever associated with the restoration of the Qing vases. Many of the activities which take place at the Museum each year do so as a result of sponsorship. Exhibitions are an obvious example, along with the educational programmes that are often associated with them. The Museum is fortunate to enjoy regular relationships with a number of local, national and international firms, but new partners are always welcome!
‘The Museum is fortunate to enjoy regular relationships with a number of local, national and international firms, but new partners are always welcome!’ Founded in 1909, The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum is the oldest museum-specific support group in the United Kingdom. For most of a century, Friends’ annual subscriptions have provided the Museum with an acquisitions fund which may be spent at the Director’s discretion. But for the last forty years, the Friends have been active socially. Thanks to their tireless Executive Committee, they sustain the Museum as volunteers, organise lectures and receptions and arrange visits to cultural sites at home and abroad. 47 Supporting the Museum ABOVE John Dix (left), Managing Partner, Hewitsons, attends the press conference to unveil the first restored Chinese vase, with conservator Penny Bendall and Ian McClure, the Museum’s Assistant Director (Conservation) LEFT The Friends of the Museum and their volunteers actively support the Museum. ‘Meet the Antiquities’ is an activity they regularly offer to visitors
Page 1 and 2: The Fitzwilliam Museum Review 2004-
Page 3: Contents Director ‘s Review 5 Exh
Page 6 and 7: 6 Director’s Review ABOVE The Cam
Page 8 and 9: 8 Director’s Review Photo by Char
Page 10 and 11: 10 The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten
Page 12 and 13: 12 Exhibitions The Hours of Philip
Page 14 and 15: 14 Exhibitions Antiphonal, Flanders
Page 16 and 17: 16 Exhibitions Federico Barocci (15
Page 18 and 19: 18 Special Displays Exhibitions A P
Page 20 and 21: 20 freshness of Altdorfer’s appro
Page 22 and 23: Perry Hastings
Page 24 and 25: 24 Profile - Philip Grierson Ramsey
Page 26 and 27: 26 Profile - Philip Grierson for a
Page 29 and 30: Education & Public Programmes Nicol
Page 31 and 32: Mary Allen Centre and a rather usef
Page 33 and 34: Information Technology
Page 35 and 36: Information Technology The Fitzwill
Page 37 and 38: Research
Page 39 and 40: Conservator Lucy Skinner makes a de
Page 41 and 42: Conservation
Page 43 and 44: Svetlana Taylor. Bryan Clarke, Mich
Page 45: Supporting the Museum
Page 49 and 50: Major Acquisitions
Page 51 and 52: Michael Broome Collection of Islami
Page 53 and 54: The Macclesfield Psalter East Angli
Page 55 and 56: Peeter Scheemaeckers the Elder (165
Page 57 and 58: Joseph Wright (1734-1797) A lightho
Page 59 and 60: John Everett Millais (1829-1896) Tw
Page 61 and 62: Pat Douthwaite (1939-2002) Self por
Page 63 and 64: Wales & Wales (1919-1999) Wedding C
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Page 67 and 68: Conservation Division Ian McClure A
Page 69 and 70: Appendix 3 Financial Information Ye
Page 71 and 72: Financial Review: Hamilton Kerr Ins

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