A new exhibition will celebrate one of the most enriching periods in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Directorship of Sir Sydney Cockerell.

New York Photographer Amanda Means' dramatic black and white prints, some as large as 38 x 46, are made by using the leaf itself as a photographic negative. The compelling images offer new ways to think about the form and function of leaves, and their evolutionary history. This is the third of a series of photography exhibits at the Harvard Museum to explore the nexus between art and science.

Three monumental late 17th century Chinese vases, damaged last year at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, are back on public display following the complex process of restoration. A specially designed case, overlooking the staircase where the vases had originally been displayed for almost sixty years, now houses the imposing lidded baluster jar - 80 cm in height and weighing approximately 45 kg - flanked by two slightly smaller porcelain vases of 'yan yan' shape.

The fascinating conflicts and contradictions of the so-called ‘Age of Reason’ are illuminated in a new exhibition opening at the Fitzwilliam Museum. From Reason to Revolution: Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain examines this dynamic period of British history and Eighteenth-through paintings, prints, drawings, rare books, ceramics and sculptures, and includes works by William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright and William Blake.

Offering a rare and intimate glimpse of the treasures in a personal collection, a new exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum celebrates the unique beauty of illuminated manuscripts across chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries.

Fitzwilliam Museum has acquired Sir William Nicholson's (1872 - 1949) Begonias painting. Nicholson was an exceptionally gifted painter of still-life. >From his earliest years as a painter he developed an innate ability to combine simple - sometimes even mundane - objects and forms to create immensely satisfying compositions which were at once studies in light, texture and the physicality of paint.

The Fitzwilliam Museum has been awarded a grant of £300,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson Foundation towards the refurbishment of its Greek and Roman gallery - one of the most popular galleries in the Museum, displaying classical antiquities against a backdrop of magnificent nineteenth century neo-classical architecture.

Fitzwilliam Museum recently acquired soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, with engraved and enamelled gold mounts and stopper Capodimonte, possibly painted by Giovanni Sigismondo Fischer, c 1752-55, the mounts made in London, c. 1755-60

The 15th Annual Cambridge Carnival International will take place in Kendall Square on Sunday, Aug. 26, from 12 noon to 7 p.m. A parade through Cambridge begins at 1 p.m.

The painting of Joseph Wright was acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum with the assistance of a grant from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, and a contribution from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

A Bill Gates scholarship will allow a University of Sydney student to complete a PhD at Cambridge University in communist poetry.

HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tabblo Inc., a privately-held developer of web-based software located in Cambridge, Mass.