The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1816 through a bequest from Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam, and now houses over 500,000 objects spanning world history and art. Located on Trumpington Street, its collections feature masterpieces by Monet, Picasso, Rubens, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt, alongside ancient treasures like a winged bas-relief from Nimrud, with admission always free. The museum is organized into five departments—Antiquities, Applied Arts, Coins and Medals, Rare Manuscripts and Printed Books, and Paintings, Drawings and Prints—and boasts notable items such as a colossal caryatid from Eleusis and the largest collection of 16th-century Elizabethan virginal manuscript music. The original "Founder's Building," designed by George Basevi and completed by C. R. Cockerell, opened in 1848, with a Palladian Entrance Hall added in 1875 and a major extension in 1931 following a significant bequest from Charles Brinsley Marlay in 1912. The museum's Egyptian Galleries, reopened in 2006 after a £1.5 million refurbishment, are among its most popular exhibits, and the museum is a key partner in the University of Cambridge Museums consortium. The museum buildings and street boundary are Grade I listed, reflecting their architectural and historical significance.