20 May - 28 September | Shiba Gallery | Christopher Le Brun - fifty etchings 2005 |
23 May - 7 September | Octagon | Anglo-Saxon art in the round |
27 May - 7 September | Charrington Print Room | 'The field calls me to labour': Watercolours of nineteenth-century rural Britain by Robert Hills (1769-1844) and his contemporaries |
8 June - 28 September | Mellon Gallery | 'On the Shoulders of Giants', Photographic portraits from the University of Cambridge |
1 May - 29 June | Chinese Gallery (Gallery 28) | Special Display: Chinese Imperial jades |
Art in Context talks take place in the Seminar Room on Wednesdays from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.
30 April | An overlooked Fitzwilliam treasure; an Italian fourteenth-century gilded glass plaque, by Irene Cooper, Research Assistant, Applied Arts |
7 May | Guercino's 'The Betrayal of Christ', by David Oldfield, of the Department of History of Art |
14 May | Voyage to the afterlife: travelling in style in ancient Egypt, by Helen Strudwick, Senior Assistant Keeper, Antiquities, and Thomas Mann, of Downing College |
21 May | Hidden histories - Qing dynasty Imperial jades in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, by James Lin, Assistant Keeper, Applied Arts |
11 June | Fifty etchings, by Christopher Le Brun, Artist |
18 June | Hidden histories - Buried treasure in Medieval Cambridge, by Martin Allen, Assistant Keeper, Coins and Medals |
25 June | Impressionism - 'Palette scrapings on a grubby canvas' ?, by Julia Tozer, Head of Education |
Talks to accompany the exhibition Anglo-Saxon art in the round take place in the Seminar Room on the following dates from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.
4 June | Money in Anglo-Saxon England, by Dr Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals |
17 July | The art of Anglo-Saxon coinage, by Dr Anna Gannon, Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art |
24 July | Life in the Anglo-Saxon period, by Dr Tim Pestell, Curator of Archaeology, Norwich Castle Museum |
31 July | Anglo-Saxon dress and jewellery, by Dr Sonja Marzinzik, Curator of Prehistory and Europe, The British Museum |
Promenade Concerts will take place on Sundays from 1.15 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Gallery 3 on the following dates: 27 April, 4, 11, 18, 25 May, 1, 8 June.
Introduced Harpsichord Recitals by Dr Gerald Gifford (Honorary Keeper of Music) will take place on Fridays from 1.15 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Gallery 3 as follows:
2 May | Keyboard transcriptions of orchestral music in the Fitzwilliam collection: a special enthusiasm of the Founder? |
23 May | Treasures of Georgian harpsichord music from the Fitzwilliam collection |
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sundays, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For further information, telephone 01223 332900, or see the website at http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/.