Goya's series of prints, Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), is one of the highpoints of European printmaking and has been hugely influential right down to our own day. No edition was published during Goya's lifetime, due to the political sensitivity of the subject matter.

This statue of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and of war, has recently been allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum by HM Government, as a gift to the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The statue takes its name from Newton Hall, near Cambridge, its home from 1920 until about five years ago.

A stunning oil composition by nineteenth century painter Samuel Palmer has been acquired by The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with the help of a £360,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and a grant of £90,000 from the National Art Collections Fund.

This sun-dried mud brick, which bears a stamped cuneiform inscription naming Shulgi, King of Ur from 2094 - 2047 BC, was recently given to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Mrs Pat Caesar. It was discovered by Mrs Caesar and her nephew, Mr Paul Morrison in March this year, while they were clearing out a wardrobe in Mrs Caesar's Cambridge house.