Story of The Boat of Millions of Years The Fitzwilliam Museum 2026-09-27 | Story of The Boat of Millions of Years
Made in Ancient Egypt I Now open The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-10-03 | 🏺 The doors are open! Step into 'Made in Ancient Egypt' today. From elaborately decorated coffins to Books of the Dead, ancient Egyptians produced objects which remain iconic today. But who were the makers behind them and how were they made? 🔓 Unlock the secrets of Ancient Egypt’s craftspeople in our new exhibition. This is the first exhibition to explore ancient Egypt through the lives of its makers – featuring cutting-edge research and spectacular loans, many never before seen in the UK. 🔗 Book tickets: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/made-in-ancient-egypt 💡Join as a Friend to get free unlimited entry: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support-us/become-a-friend 🎓 18–25 or a student of any age? Join the Fitz List to get free exhibition tickets, exclusive content and more: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/fitz-list Supported by David and Molly Lowell Borthwick.
Made in Ancient Egypt: Coming Soon The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-09-16 | 🎟️ Ancient Egypt, like you’ve never seen it before — coming soon!Book now for our upcoming exhibition, 'Made in Ancient Egypt', where you can explore ancient Egypt through the lives of its craftspeople and discover the untold stories of the makers behind their extraordinary creations.OPENING SOON: 3 October 2025 - 12 April 2026🔗 Book here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/made-in-ancient-egypt
Made in Ancient Egypt | On sale now The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-07-29 | Book your tickets and be the first in line to see our exciting upcoming exhibition. Explore ancient Egypt through the lives of its craftspeople and discover the untold stories of the makers behind their extraordinary creations.From elaborately decorated coffins to the Books of the Dead, ancient Egyptians produced objects which remain iconic today. But who were the makers behind them and how were they made?Find out more: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/made-in-ancient-egypt'Made in Ancient Egypt’ opens 3 October 2025.
Walter Sickert | Mornington Crescent Nude The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-27 | Discover our 'Artwork in Focus' series. Featuring artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gwen John, John Everett Millais, Georges Seurat and many more - watch to discover the colours, brushstrokes, techniques and tiny details that make these works so captivating.Inspired? Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Amedeo Modigliani | Portrait of a Young Woman The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-27 | Discover our 'Artwork in Focus' series. Featuring artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gwen John, John Everett Millais, Georges Seurat and many more - watch to discover the colours, brushstrokes, techniques and tiny details that make these works so captivating.Inspired? Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
John Everett Millais | The Bridesmaid The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-27 | Discover our 'Artwork in Focus' series. Featuring artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gwen John, John Everett Millais, Georges Seurat and many more - watch to discover the colours, brushstrokes, techniques and tiny details that make these works so captivating.Inspired? Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Georges-Pierre Seurat | The Rue St Vincent The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-27 | Discover our 'Artwork in Focus' series. Featuring artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gwen John, John Everett Millais, Georges Seurat and many more - watch to discover the colours, brushstrokes, techniques and tiny details that make these works so captivating.Inspired? Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Gust of Wind The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-27 | Discover our 'Artwork in Focus' series. Featuring artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gwen John, John Everett Millais, Georges Seurat and many more - watch to discover the colours, brushstrokes, techniques and tiny details that make these works so captivating.Inspired? Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Gwen John | The Convalescent The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-27 | Discover our 'Artwork in Focus' series. Featuring artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gwen John, John Everett Millais, Georges Seurat and many more - watch to discover the colours, brushstrokes, techniques and tiny details that make these works so captivating.Inspired? Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Graham Sutherland, ‘The Deposition The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-11 | ✝️ This isn’t your typical Bible scene...In his abstract painting, British artist Graham Sutherland reimagines the moment Jesus is taken down off the cross, a scene known as 'the deposition' and a popular subject for Christian art. Painted in 1946, right after World War 2 had ended, Sutherland interprets the scene through a modern lens. As an official war artist, the horrors he'd witnessed and seen in photographs permeated his work — palpable distress, anguish and skeletal figures that echo the survivors of the concentration camps.But through this imagery inspired by renaissance themes of salvation and light and religious stories of resurrection and life after death, he incorporates a sense of hope even in the darkest of times.Our new display 'Essence and Presence' invites you to uncover how the past continues to shape the future of art and how artists, then and now, are united by bold ideas and shared themes.📍 See it up-close in Gallery 6. Free to visit, no booking needed.🎞️ Film by Rob Hill🖼️ Graham Sutherland ‘The Deposition’, 1946 © The estate of Graham Sutherland.
🍏 A Cézanne? In a hedge? | The full story of Paul Cézannes Still Life with Apples The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-06-06 | From an art sale in Paris to the Sussex countryside, find out the fascinating story behind French post-impressionist artist Paul Cézanne's 'Still Life with Apples'.Over 100 years later, this small but intense painting is back at @CharlestonTrust on loan from the Fitzwilliam Museum. The 'Inventing Post-Impressionism' exhibition.🗓️ ‘Inventing Post-Impressionism: works from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts’ is open until 2 November at Charleston in Firle.🎞️ Rosie Powell Freelance🖼️ Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, c.1878, oil on canvas. On loan from King’s College (Keynes collection). By kind permission of the Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge.
Essence and Presence Trailer The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-05-30 | From Italy in the 1300s to today, discover what unites artists born hundreds of years apart and explore how art of the past inspires bold new visions of what art can be.Essence and Presence brings together some of the finest examples of early renaissance art in our collection in conversation with works by modern and contemporary artists—from Filippo Lippi, Simone Martini and Domenico Veneziano to William Blake, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Sylvia Snowden and Stanley Spencer.Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/essence-and-presence
Behind the scenes of Made in Ancient Egypt - new exhibition coming soon! The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-05-07 | 🏺 'Made in Ancient Egypt', will open this October. Featuring spectacular loans never before seen in the UK, this exhibition brings cutting-edge research to life and sheds new light on one of the world’s most fascinating civilisations.📅 Opens 3 October 2025. Find out more: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/made-in-ancient-egypt
Jahnavi Inniss Representation: Black British History Quilt The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-05-02 | This monumental typographic quilt weaves together key Black figures in British history. Blending quilting with contemporary storytelling, it is both a tribute and a call for greater recognition of these individuals and their ongoingcontributions. Find out more in 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' open until 1 June.
Joy Labinjos Phillis Wheatley | Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-05-02 | This portrait by British artist Joy Labinjo depicts the writer Phillis Wheatley, widely recognized as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems.Find out more in 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' open until 1 June.
Jacqueline Bishops Nana | Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-05-02 | Bishop’s 'Nana' celebrates countless numbers of unrecorded Jamaican market women of West African heritage. They grew food for their families, made clothes and were herbalists who exchanged botanical and medicinal knowledge with Indigenous women, especially for birthing and fertility control. They empowered themselves through earning extra income and retaining some control over their lives and contributed to the cultural and economic fabric of their societies. Discover more in 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition', open until 1 June.
Karen McLean, Ar’n’t I a Woman! Woven Bodies 1 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-04-24 | 📢 'I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman'?These powerful words surround you in this 3D installation by British artist Karen McLean, on display in our 'Rise Up' exhibition. The piece draws from American abolitionist and activist Sojourner Truth’s famous 1851 abolitionist speech while also inviting us to consider how Truth's legacy has been shaped, and sometimes distorted, over time.Come explore 'Rise Up' in person to discover the many layers of meaning behind McLean's work.🔗 Visit our website to plan your visit: https://shorturl.at/xfife📅 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' open until 1 June.🎬 Film by Rosie Powell. 🖼️ Karen McLean, Ar’n’t I a Woman! Woven Bodies 1, 2021. Courtesy of Karen McLean.
Agbogho Mmuo (Maiden Spirit) Mask The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-04-24 | Maiden spirit masks like this one are used by the Igbo people in the Agbogho Mmuo masquerade, annual ceremonies held during the dry season in the Nri-Awka area in the northern part of Igbo territory in Nigeria.Though these masks represent young women's beauty and female power, they are worn by initiated young men who wear them while dancing in the masquerades.🎭 Masking and oral storytelling have long been central to Igbo culture, a legacy captured in the 1789 autobiography of writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, who offers rich descriptions of his homeland and his people.🔗 You can come face-to-face with this maiden spirit mask and learn more about Equiano's life and connection to Cambridge in our 'Rise Up' exhibition. Visit our website to plan your visit: https://shorturl.at/xfife📅 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' open until 1 June.🎬 Film by Rosie Powell.🖼️ Unrecorded Igbo maker, Agbogho Mmuo (Maiden Spirit) mask, c.20th century. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (@maacambridge), 2014.300, University of Cambridge.
Exploring Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-04-24 | 🎟️ Have you visited 'Rise Up' yet?Discover the history of the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition.From historical objects to contemporary works by artists like Jacqueline Bishop, Joy Labinjo, Keith Piper and more, there's much to uncover.🔗 Visit our website plan your visit: https://shorturl.at/xfife🎬 Film by Rosie Powell.
🎨 MEET THE ARTISTS The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-04-02 | Don't miss your chance to sit down with some of the best contemporary artists working today in our series of talks.🎨 Join artists Jacqueline Bishop, Kimathi Donkor, Joy Labinjo, Karen McLean and Keith Piper as they discuss their inspirations, creative practices and artworks displayed in our new exhibition, ‘Rise Up’.Find out more about the artists and book your spot: tickets.museums.cam.ac.uk/events?kid=116📅 Keith Piper, Thursday 17 April, 1-2pm.📅 Karen McLean, Thursday 24 April, 1-2pm.📅 Kimathi Donkor, Thursday 1 May, 2-3pm.📅 Joy Labinjo, Tuesday 6 May, 1-2pm.
Othello by Alistair Nwachukwu The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-04-01 | Actor Alistair Nwachukwu performs an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Othello—the same words that 19th-century theatre star Ira Aldridge, one of the first Black actors to play Othello on an English stage, once delivered on thousands of stages, including the Theatre Royal in Cambridge.This film features in our exhibition 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition'. Performed by Alistair Nwachukwu Directed by Sharon Walters Camera/editor Mat Sunderland Sound Graham Tobias Produced by Thing of Beauty
Fireworks at Ryôgoku bridge | Utagawa Hiroshige print The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-03-28 | This print by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige captures boats gathered on Japan's Sumida River, as fireworks light up Ryôgoku bridge.Fireworks have dazzled the river since 1733, and the show was so popular that it became an annual festival known as ‘Ryōgoku Kawabiraki Hanabi' - with the literal translation of 'hanabi' being ‘flower fire’.🎬 TomFoolery Ltd.🌟 Utagawa Hiroshige, Ryôgoku hanabi, 1858, colour print from woodblocks © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
🔥 Suffragettes for Votes! | Womens History Month The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-03-28 | This Women's History Month we're celebrating some of history’s most fearless feminists – the Suffragettes.One of the boldest voices in the fight was British activist and writer Sylvia Pankhurst: a trailblazer who refused to play by the rules. Here, she’s captured in profile by her classmate at the Royal College of Art, British artist Maria Cowell. The phrase ‘Suffragettes for VOTES’ suggests this sketch dates to around 1906, before the now-iconic slogan ‘Votes for Women’ took centre stage. Keep an eye out for more women’s stories from our collection throughout the month of March: instagram.com/fitzmuseum_uk🎥 Tomfoolery LTD
Slutty Cheff: Luxury, Decadence, and Desire- Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem PART 3 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-03-06 | Savor the indulgence of our new display, reimagined by the anonymous writer, British Vogue columnist, and cook Slutty Cheff...📅 'Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem' is open until 13 April 2025.Free entry, no booking required. Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heem
Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition exhibition trailer The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-02-20 | Uncover the multifaceted history of the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition in the face of oppression and opposition. ‘Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition’ continues until 1 June 2025.Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/rise-up
Jan Davidsz de Heem, Flowers in a Glass Vase The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-02-06 | Like what you see? Come and experience monumental Dutch still-life paintings in our new display, ‘Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem’. 🔗Find out more here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heemOpen until 13 April 2025.
Adrien Coorte, A Bundle of Asparagus The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-02-06 | Like what you see? Come and experience monumental Dutch still-life paintings in our new display, ‘Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem’. 🔗Find out more here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heemOpen until 13 April 2025.
Jan Davidsz de Heem, A Banquet Still Life The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-02-06 | Like what you see? Come and experience monumental Dutch still-life paintings in our new display, ‘Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem’. 🔗Find out more here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heemOpen until 13 April 2025.🖼️ Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606–1684), A Banquet Still Life, 1643, Oil on canvas, 155 x 211 cm © Frederick Iseman Art Trust LLC.
Slutty Cheff: Food, gluttony and art - Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem PART 1 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-01-09 | Food and maximalism collide in our delicious new display interpreted by anonymous writer, British Vogue columnist and cook Slutty Cheff...📅 'Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem', is open until 13 April 2025.Free entry, no booking needed. Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heem
Slutty Cheff: Indulgence, pleasure and greed - Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem PART 2 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-01-09 | Take a bite of our delicious new display interpreted by anonymous writer, British Vogue columnist and cook Slutty Cheff...📅 'Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem', is open until 13 April 2025.Free entry, no booking needed. Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heem
Moon Jars: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2025-01-08 | 📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit
Negro Sunshine: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-12-19 | 📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit
Octagon gallery: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-12-19 | 📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit
Neon: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-12-19 | 📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit
Upper Marlay Intervention: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-12-13 | 📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/glenn-ligon-all-over-the-place
Explore Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-12-12 | Experience the monumental still-life paintings by Dutch artist Jan Davidsz de Heem, displayed together for the first time ever.💸 Free entry, no booking needed. Come indulge! Visit our website to plan your visit: tinyurl.com/rtrn3pyh📅 'Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem', open until 13 April 2025.
Flowers Gallery Intervention: Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-12-06 | 📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025Plan your visit here: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/glenn-ligon-all-over-the-place
Tour Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place with Alayo Akinkugbe The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-11-29 | Join Alayo Akinkugbe, writer, curator and founder of the hugely popular Instagram account @ABlackHisotryOfArt, on a tour of our exhibition 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' featuring site-specific interventions curated by the American contemporary artist. Plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/glenn-ligon-all-over-the-place
Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature x 3 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-11-27 | Our new online, open-access resource 'Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature' includes a state-of-the-art viewer feature that allows you to get as up close and personal as you like with over 80 miniatures.This platform is the first of its kind dedicated to the technical investigation of such minute artworks. Find out more here: unlocking-miniatures.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk🎞️ TomfooleryltdIsaac Oliver, Unknown Lady, c.1590, Watercolour on vellum on card © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature x 2 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-11-27 | Our new online, open-access resource 'Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature' includes a state-of-the-art viewer feature that allows you to get as up close and personal as you like with over 80 miniatures.This platform is the first of its kind dedicated to the technical investigation of such minute artworks. Find out more here: unlocking-miniatures.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk🎞️ TomfooleryltdIsaac Oliver, Unknown Man, c.1588 © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature x 1 The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-11-27 | Our new online, open-access resource 'Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature' includes a state-of-the-art viewer feature that allows you to get as up close and personal as you like with over 80 miniatures.This platform is the first of its kind dedicated to the technical investigation of such minute artworks. Find out more here: unlocking-miniatures.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk🎞️ TomfooleryltdIsaac Oliver, Unknown Man, 1610 © Ham House, National Trust.
Behind the scenes: MA-XRF scanning of Jan Davidsz de Heem The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-11-22 | Join the Fitzwilliam Museum science team based at the Hamilton Kerr Institute as they undertake a cutting-edge scientific process on one of Jan Davidsz de Heem's largest still-life paintings on loan from the Brussels Museum for our display 'Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz De Heem'.Find out more: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/picturing-excess-jan-davidsz-de-heem
Step inside Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-11-15 | Experience the work of artist Glenn Ligon...From his dramatic neon on our historic portico to the curated interventions throughout the Museum, the artist is peeling back the layers of history to reveal a new perspective on our collection.📅 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is open until 2 March 2025🔗 Find out more and plan your visit: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/glenn-ligon-all-over-the-place
A Halloween Special: Foweles in the Frith The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-10-31 | 🕯️ Gather around, let us tell you a story of murder most fowl!It's Halloween, so what better time to recall that old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. This story dates back to the early 1200s, known to some as 'The three living and the three dead'...🖼️ Book of Hours, The Three Living and the Three Dead, c.1490-1510 © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.🎞️ @tomfooleryltd
Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-10-30 | American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon discusses his art, the themes behind his work and his new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 'All Over The Place'. Open until 2 March 2025.'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place' is generously funded by De Ying Foundation. We are grateful to The Ampersand Foundation for their additional support of the installation of 'Waiting for the Barbarians'.Find out more: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/glenn-ligon-all-over-the-place
Paris 1924: Bracquemond trophy The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-10-17 | 🏆 In 1924, the lucky gold medal Olympians took home more than just their medals—they also received vases!🗓️ You can view this Bracquemond trophy up close in our exhibition ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’, 19 July – 3 November 2024.📢 Tickets are available on our website now: tinyurl.com/353ehyfr🎞️ Film by Rosie Powell.🏺 Paris 1924 Olympic Games, gold-medal winner’s vase, 1924. Émile Louis Bracquemond (1889–1970), and Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872–1967) for Sèvres Porcelain (founded 1740), pâte-sur-pâte porcelain, paint, gold leaf. Markus Osterwalder, Switzerland, Olympic historian and collector.
Paris 1924: Jean Jacoby The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-10-17 | 🖌️ Luxembourger artist Jean Jacoby was an Olympic champion who captured victory not with a bicycle or football, but with a paintbrush. He won a gold medal for these vivid sports-inspired paintings, 'Corner' and 'Rugby', in 1924 and 1928.🗓️ Come view these works on loan from The Olympic Museum in our exhibition ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’, 19 July – 3 November 2024.📢 Tickets are available on our website now: tinyurl.com/353ehyfr🎞️ Film by Rosie Powell.🖼️ Jean Jacoby, Corner, from the Sport Studies triptych, 1924, Jean Jacoby (1891–1936), oil on canvas © Olympic Museum Collections, Lausanne 81598.🖼️ Rugby, from the Sport Studies triptych, 1924 Jean Jacoby (1891–1936), oil on canvas, © Olympic Museum Collections, Lausanne 81599.
Paris 1924: William DeHart Hubbards letter The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-10-17 | ✉️ American athlete William DeHart Hubbard penned this letter to his mum in 1924. He told her 'Tell Papa I got his letter... tell him I’m going to do my best to be the FIRST COLORED OLYMPIC CHAMPION'.And he meant it— Hubbard nailed the final jump, soaring over 24 feet to win the gold medal in the long jump, becoming the first ever Black athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal!🗓️ Come and see the letter for yourself in our exhibition ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’, 19 July – 3 November 2024.📢 Tickets are available on our website now: tinyurl.com/353ehyfr📜 On loan from the Cincinnati Museum Center.🎞️ Film by Rosie Powell.✉️ Letter written by William DeHart Hubbard (1903–1976) to his mother on board the SS America before sailing to Paris with the US Olympic team, 1924, Pen and ink on paper with printed letterhead. On loan from Cincinnati Museum Center, MSS 1067.1 w
Paris 1924: The Runner (Nurmi) The Fitzwilliam Museum 2024-10-17 | 🏅 German artist Renée Sintenis immortalized legendary Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi with this sculpture titled ‘The Runner (Nurmi)’.It became Sintenis’ most celebrated sports piece and helped to solidify her legacy as one of the few female sculptors who thrived in the male-dominated art world of the 1920s.🗓️ Come view the ‘Flying Finn’, on loan from Leicester Museums, up close in our exhibition ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’, 19 July – 3 November 2024.📢 Tickets are available on our website now: tinyurl.com/353ehyfr🎞️ Film by Rosie Powell. ⚒️ Renée Sintenis, The Athlete (Nurmi),1926, bronze. © Leicester Museums and Galleries.
