The Fitzwilliam Museum was relevant for two reasons - it has a Greco-Roman gallery, but also, it has an imposing (19th Century) "Classical" entrance with a lot of mosaic work which gives a better impression of how mosaics were used in context than seeing a few square feet of a faded Roman original post-excavation.
To do Romans in Cambridge you should actually be going to the Museum of Classical Archaeology to see their unrivalled cast collection, but it doesn't have mosaics or a cafe. ;-)
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