Past Projects

Drop-in and enjoy half an hour looking at and talking about art.

Drop-in and enjoy half an hour looking at and talking about art.

Join artist Caroline Wendling for a adult watercolour workshop, organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum, exploring Whistler’s watercolour techniques inspired by Whistler & Nature.

Join artist Caroline Wendling for a adult watercolour workshop, organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum, exploring Whistler’s watercolour techniques inspired by Whistler & Nature.

Join artist Caroline Wendling for a adult watercolour workshop, organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum, exploring Whistler’s watercolour techniques inspired by Whistler & Nature.

Join us to explore the fascinating journeys made by plants – on their own and with help from humans – and see how they have inspired artworks in our collection.

A mixed ensemble of soprano, winds, virginals and Renaissance harp performing Tudor consort music and songs by Byrd, Ferrabosco, White and others.

Find out about the cool plants that were around at the time of the dinosaurs and make your own plant fossil to take home with you.

Fairtrade fortnight is back and this time it’s all about chocolate! See our cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao growing in the rainforest, and more!

Have fun, play and weave amazing creations using natural material from the Garden.

Join artist Kelly Briggs to explore how the natural disintegration of artefacts can become inspiration for new artworks.

A talk with Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney, Associate Professor in Ancient History, University of Leicester.

A talk with Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts.

A talk with Prof. Stephen D. Lambert, Professor of Ancient Greek History and Epigraphy, Cardiff University.

Artist Emma Smith shares the making of her new commission.

A talk with Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books.

A talk with the Keepers of Paintings, Drawings and Prints.

A talk with Dr Patricia de Montfort, Curator, and Prof. Clare A P Willsdon, joint authors of the book which accompanies the exhibition.

Dr Paola Ricciardi discusses the work of Isaac Oliver from a technical angle as evidenced in works from the Fitzwilliam Museum miniatures collection.

A talk with Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant, Applied Arts, and display Curator.

A talk with Eric Broug, author, educator and designer specialising in Islamic geometric design.

A talk with Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, and Dr Melissa Calaresu, Director of Studies and Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge.

Jessica Lawrence Hare (soprano) and Olga Elbourn (piano) perform pieces by Wolf, Strauss, Zemlinsky, Wagner, Chausson, Faure, Duparc, and Ned Rorem.

It’s National Gardening Week so we are having a go at planting seeds from the fruit we eat plus decorating pots using recycled material.

Get messy with mud, make mud pies and have a go at mud painting at this wonderfully messy mud morning.

Come along and have a go at drawing plants with us. We’ll be looking at plants really closely before having a go at drawing them.

Find out about the Nightshades, one of the most amazing families in the plant kingdom.

Find out all about the plants used by the Ancient Egyptians including plants used to make paper and to help preserve bodies.

Learn loads of bat facts and enjoy bat themed craft ready for Halloween.

Help the birds in your garden survive the frosty winter nights by making bird feeders to put out in your garden.

Get festive and join us at our winter decoration day where we’ll be making all sorts of Christmas decorations using natural materials.

Become a secret agent and follow our free, self-guided family trail about tree cones.

To celebrate this anniversary, we are offering 60-minute guided tours of the Winter Garden at 2.30pm every Sunday in January and February.

Italian Baroque organ music from the Fitzwilliam Museum's collection performed by Gerald Gifford, Honorary Keeper of Music at the Museum. 

Charles Ellis (cello) and Ian Kelleher (guitar) perform pieces by Boccherini, Elgar, Villa-Lobos, Gounod, John Williams, Ravel, Piazolla, Saint-Saens.

Performances by the very best undergraduate chamber musicians.

Emmanuel Bach (violin) and Jenny Stern (piano) play a programme of works by Lera Auerbach and Debussy.

Chloe Beresford-Jones (soprano), Helen Groves (soprano) and Jill Morton (piano) perform Mendelssohn duets, Faure Barcarolle, Richard Rodney Bennett Songs Before Sleep and songs by Massenet. 

Discover new ways of working at this artist led workshop.