Destination: Fitzwilliam Museum

05/17/20 • 10 min

Join me this episode as we travel to Cambridge and take a look at an amazing museum with its very own folklore about its more permanent residents.
‘The Listening Lions’ - Michael Rosen

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Join me this episode as we travel to Cambridge and take a look at an amazing museum with its very own folklore about its more permanent residents.
‘The Listening Lions’ - Michael Rosen

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*Not AI generated. All content is original.*

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Destination: History - Destination: Fitzwilliam Museum

Transcript

INTRO

Welcome to Destination: History, where we tackle interesting and fascinating places and take a stroll through the history behind them.

Known for its grandeur and astonishingly large collection. Today’s destination can be found in the heart of Cambridge and is a principal museum under the University of Cambridge umbrella. This museum houses a collection so large its more than five million works of art, artefacts and specimens together span across four and a