The Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the best known museums in the city of Cambridge, England.

It is located on Trumpington Street and the building was designed by Charles Robert Cockerell. The museum belongs to the group of nine museums and institutions managed by the University of Cambridge.

Inside are exhibited works by artists of international caliber such as William Blake, Alfred Sisley and Tiziano. The Fitzwilliam Museum owes its name to its main benefactor, Richard Fitzwilliam, who donated many of the works of art from his private collection.

The Fitzwilliam Museum houses over half a million objects in an extraordinary selection for the variety of its contents: there are splendid artifacts and works of art from all over the world, ranging from Egyptian sarcophagi to the masterpieces of the Impressionist Impressionist masters, or from illuminated manuscripts to Renaissance sculpture up to the very rare coins of the Asian arts.

From the collection it is worth mentioning the following masterpieces: Les Peupliers by Claude Monet (1891); Tarquinio and Lucrezia, Tiziano Vecellio (c.1571); Portrait of Man in Military Costume, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1650); the mummy of Nakhtefmut; a German armor (c.1550-1610).