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Fashion, music, performance, talks and art – Museum Lates inspired by the Black Atlantic.

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A young Black man in high fashion leaning against a wall in a museum

Museum Late: Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance.

These images are from Museum Lates inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum’s recent exhibitions, ‘Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance‘ (2023), and ‘Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition‘ (2025).

Co-curated by Public Programmes in collaboration with local partners and creative contributors, the Lates invited audiences to interrogate how narratives of empire are presented in museums – often reinforcing racialised positions – while offering space to explore the notion of a Black Atlantic through creative experimentation.

The conceptual, cultural and intellectual space that is the Black Atlantic remains open to and shaped by Black, Global Majority and People of Colour communities.

Two young men reviewing an image on a camera

Two young women standing together

The ‘Museum Late: Future Legacies’ (2025) brought contributors from the Future Legacies online platform into the Museum to connect with live audiences for the first time, blurring the lines between our physical and digital public programmes.

This permeability between Future Legacies online and onsite ensures that the conceptual, cultural and intellectual space that is the Black Atlantic remains open to and shaped by Black, Global Majority and People of Colour communities, engaging across both digital and physical spaces.

A young person of colour spotlight for a photoshoot in a museum

A young electronic musician woman of colour performing in a museum

A DJ showing two students how to DJ

Three young people of colour in a gallery exhibition

Young people in a museum gallery

A woman looking at a museum exhibition

Two young female DJ's of colour playing a set at the museum

A young artist holding a collage in a museum workshop

Three folk musicians perform in a museum gallery

Two female folk musicians perform in a museum gallery

Two young men of colour discuss film for a museum talk

Young people of colour lead a museum panel discussion

The Museum Lates offered a chance to counter historical structures and biases.

A crowd watching a folk musician perform.

Two people collaging.

All images copyright Dan Weill/Lewis Ronald/Fitzwilliam Museum.