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SUMMARY: The Fitzwilliam Museum: A Short History - Margaret Greeves\, Wolf
 son College
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CONTACT:DJ Goode
DESCRIPTION:The Museum was established in 1816 by the bequest of Richard\,
  7th Viscount Fitzwilliam\, an eighteenth-century collector who sought to 
 promote the ‘increase of learning’.  His gift to the University includ
 ed the capital sum both for the building\, which opened in 1848\, and for 
 its endowment.  Since then the Museum has benefitted from a constant strea
 m of gifts and bequests which reflect changes of taste and collecting in B
 ritain.  Like the collections\, the Museum itself has grown in response to
  changing priorities. This illustrated talk will trace the story principal
 ly through the growth of the buildings and will include some significant p
 eople and objects along the way up to the 2014 preparations for the celebr
 ation of the Museum’s bicentenary in 2016.\n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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