The Fitzwilliam Museum

The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of Cambridge University. Its exterior is inspired by a Greek temple, featuring eight Corinthian columns and a broad flight of steps running up to them. The building sits back from the street behind a low stone rail, which really helps on a road this narrow, giving you extra space to capture the entire front in one frame. Four stone lions guard the corners of the steps. The front faces east, so the columns are highlighted the morning sun. Inside, the entrance hall is breathtaking. There's coloured marble, gilded plasterwork and a domed ceiling above mosaic floors, with staircases splitting up and down from the middle. Standing in the centre of the hall lets shoot straight up the staircases to experiment with symmetry. The museum doesn't allow tripods and it's darker in there than it appears, so plan on handheld at higher ISO. The picture galleries above take their light from skylights, which stays soft and even across the floor. Admission is free, but the museum is closed on Mondays and some exhibitions are ticketed separately. Going on a weekday morning gives you the most space to slowly explore the building and take your time capturing it all. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England)