I turned it into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Published by The Fitzwilliam Museum in November 2008 in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, Mellon Gallery, 4th November 2008 - 17th March 2009 Hardback 218 pages, 28.5x22cm, 188 illustrations in colour, Isbn: 978-0904454-84-0 Sir Sydney Cockerell is celebrated as one of the most successful and inspiring museum directors of all times. The high-profile acquisitions, ambitious building campaigns and novel approach to display initiated during his directorship (1908-1937) transformed the Fitzwilliam Museum from a provincial gallery into a model for twentieth-century art institutions in Britain and abroad. He is famous for the boastful, but justified statement: "I found it a pigsty; I turned it into a palace".