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Exhibitions

If ‘wokeness’ is over, can someone please tell the Fitzwilliam Museum?

22 March 2025

9:00 AM

22 March 2025

9:00 AM

Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition

Fitzwilliam Museum, until 1 June

Optimists believe that the tide of ‘wokeness’ is now ebbing. If so, the message has not yet reached Cambridge, whose wonderful university museum has its classical façade covered in sententious phrases in neon, and which has recently opened a new exhibition in agit-prop style: Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition. Such activism is fully in step with the Museums Association, the curators’ club that instructs its members to turn their institutions into activist cells.

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