Home >> Encyclopedia-britannica-volume-9-part-1-extraction-gambrinus >> Fife to Five Nations >> Fitzwilliam Museum

Fitzwilliam Museum

Loading


FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, a building erected to house the collection of music, books, paintings and other works of art, be queathed in 1816 by Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, to the Uni versity of Cambridge, England. Both the collection and the build ings have been greatly enlarged by the bequest of Charles Brins ley Marlay in 1912, and the gifts of two anonymous benefactors.