The Fitzwilliam Museum - Lucilla Burn

This book has been commissioned by the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of the celebrations of the bicentenary, in 2016, of its foundation. It traces the story of the establishment and growth of the Museum from its origins in the 1816 bequest of Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, to the present day. By setting an individual museum's story into the larger context of the growth and development of museums and galleries in the UK and elsewhere, the book will appeal to all students of the history of collecting and display as well as to visitors to the museum.

Lucilla Burn is Acting Assistant Director (Collections) and Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where she leads the five curatorial departments of the Museum while also looking after the collections of Greek and Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities. Before coming to Cambridge in 2001 she worked for many years as an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. She is the author of several books.