We are delighted to announce this year's awardees of the Community Knowledge Incubator Fund. The fund seeks to strengthen support for communities to investigate their own questions, challenges, and ideas, and to work with university researchers when it leads to a clear, shared benefit.
The news comes as the Fitzwilliam celebrates record-breaking visitor numbers with 2025 becoming the second-highest attendance on record (493,612), following a record-breaking year in 2024 (506,428).
A collaboration between The Fitzwilliam Museum, CUFC and local charity Romsey Mill has seen young people co-design a bespoke football kit for Black History Month
'Made in Ancient Egypt' opens today, 3 October 2025, and is the first exhibition to focus on the people who built one of history’s most remarkable civilisations.
The extraordinary find has been uncovered as part of the Museum's upcoming exhibition, ‘Made in Ancient Egypt’.
The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa, according to a new report aiming to promote further research, collaboration and engagement, especially with African scholars and communities. The report emphasises that the labour and expertise of countless unnamed African people is hidden in the histories of these collections.
The 1924 Paris Olympics stars in a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition exploring the sport, art and bodies behind a pivotal Games. Exhibits speak of surprising partnerships, competing interests and unresolved tensions.
An unprecedented Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores the family, informed by psychological research from the University's Centre for Family Research. Its curator hopes to open minds to newer family forms including those with LGBTQ+ parents and families created by assisted reproduction.
Kerry James Marshall, one of the leading international artists working today, has donated a portrait of prolific author, literary scholar and award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr to the University of Cambridge
A major new exhibition explores Cambridge's role in slavery, the people it affected and their resistance to it.
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