Museum · Cambridge · Cambridgeshire

Fitzwilliam Museum

Fitzwilliam Museum is an art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. Management falls to University of Cambridge. Around it, within 15 km, lie 60 more places, Museum of Zoology (400 m) first on our list.

Where

In Cambridge

inside the built-up area

Run by

University of Cambridge

the operator on record

Visitors a year

364K

Wikidata

How well known

Top 1%

#57 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Museum in Cambridge

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#57 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (30 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum is inside Cambridge’s built-up area, with 27 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Choosing a month

From May to September, Cambridge sees highs of 18–23°C.

Jan8° / 2°48 mm

Feb9° / 2°36 mm

Mar11° / 3°33 mm

Apr14° / 5°36 mm

May18° / 7°45 mm

Jun21° / 10°51 mm

Jul23° / 13°49 mm

Aug23° / 12°57 mm

Sep20° / 10°48 mm

Oct15° / 8°57 mm

Nov11° / 4°53 mm

Dec8° / 2°50 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Cambridge, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Cambridge. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Cambridge’s full climate →

About

Fitzwilliam Museum

Roughly 364K visitors come each year. 30 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Type: Museum
Run by: University of Cambridge
Visitors: 364K visitors a year
Wikipedias: Covered in 30 languages
Town: in Cambridge
Official site: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

Know before you go

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Where to find Fitzwilliam Museum

Use the numbers to match each place near Fitzwilliam Museum with the list.

Towns near it

Towns that count Fitzwilliam Museum

Cambridge is the biggest of the 8 bases nearby (152,742 people). Nearest first, every town here counts it among its places to visit.

1 · It’s in town

Cambridge

152,742 people · 33 places to visit

2 · 2.4 km southwest of it

Grantchester

536 people · 26 places to visit

3 · 3.2 km northwest of it

Girton

4,384 people · 28 places to visit

4 · 3.4 km west of it

Coton

952 people · 25 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Fitzwilliam Museum is	People	Places to visit
Cambridge	It’s in town	152,742	33
Grantchester	2.4 km southwest of it	536	26
Girton	3.2 km northwest of it	4,384	28
Coton	3.4 km west of it	952	25
Fen Ditton	3.9 km northeast of it	509	31
Great Shelford and Stapleford	4 km south of it	6,159	21
Histon and Impington	4 km north of it	7,781	32
Barton	4.3 km southwest of it	504	22

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

There are 60 within 15 km, 5 museums, a garden and a castle among them.

MuseumMuseum of Zoology400 m away · 139K visitors a year (2023)2

GardenCambridge University Botanic Garden900 m away 3

CastleCambridge Castle1.4 km away 4

MuseumWhipple Museum of the History Of Science300 m away 5

Art galleryKettle's Yard Gallery1.3 km away 6

MuseumMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology300 m away 7

MuseumSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences400 m away 8

MuseumIWM Duxford12 km away · 401K visitors a year (2019)

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Your questions on Fitzwilliam Museum

Where is Fitzwilliam Museum?

Fitzwilliam Museum is in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Fitzwilliam Museum?

Art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Who runs Fitzwilliam Museum?

University of Cambridge.

How many people visit Fitzwilliam Museum?

About 364K visitors a year.

When is the best time to visit Fitzwilliam Museum?

May to September are the warmest months in Cambridge, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Fitzwilliam Museum?

Within 15 km: Museum of Zoology (400 m), Cambridge University Botanic Garden (900 m), Cambridge Castle (1.4 km) and Whipple Museum of the History Of Science (300 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Museum of Zoology: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge University Botanic Garden: temporalata, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge Castle: Samuel Buck / Nathaniel Buck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Whipple Museum of the History Of Science: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kettle's Yard Gallery: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
IWM Duxford: IxK85, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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