The Fitzwilliam Museum
Neoclassical art and antiquities museum behind a columned portico, founded by a collector's bequest.
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This guide to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge follows the money behind its grand portico, starting on a February day in eighteen sixteen when a collector's will reached the university. It reaches back to an Amsterdam-born merchant who rose through the City of London, and to the South Sea Company he helped direct. Best heard on the pavement of Trumpington Street, facing the columns.
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